International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering Vol. 9, No. 12 (2014), pp. 117-128 http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/ijmue.2014.9.12.11 ISSN: 1975-0080 IJMUE Copyright ⓒ 2014 SERSC Interactive Documentary on Perspective of New Media Nayun Kim and Sangheon Kim Dept. of Global Culture and Contents, HUFS, 107 Imun-ro, Seoul, Korea luce728@naver.com, shkim@gcrc.kr Abstract An Interactive Documentary is web and multimedia documentary with interactivity and user participatory that present non-linear narratives. These features come from that of new media including hypertext, remediation, modulation and interactivity which is combination of cinema and digital technologies. Focused features of new media and interactive documentary are presented and compared. Variant modes of interactive documentary compared to traditional documentary or media are presented. Interactive Documentary is a New media, mostly affected by user related interactions. Keywords: Interactive documentary, new media, remediation, user interaction 1. Introduction As for film literature, most of them start with a reference to the Lumiere brothers and their cinematographies. AS for interactive documentary, we should begin with Lumiere’s work as well as Babbage’s Analytical engine in 1830, the beginning of computers. An interactive documentary that lies between cinema and interaction is a documentary production that differs from the more traditional forms—video, audio, photographic—by applying a full complement of multimedia tools. The interactive multimedia capability of the Internet provides documentarians with a unique medium to create non-linear productions that combine photography, text, audio, video, animation and info graphics. The time of interactive documentary has come, online video distribution has proven its feasibility on a high bandwidth world and its proximity to interactive environments is pushing it towards interaction. The massive convergence process in course on a battle for “the screen” between TV broadcasters, online newspapers, and media distribution companies that desperately need innovative quality products to survive. Nowadays, everyone is using the word “documentary” to describe every single multimedia piece that incorporates video no matter its nature, technique, language or scope, taking advantage of the fuzzy and fragile boundaries of the documentary definition. The fundamental difference between a linear and an interactive documentary is not the passage from analogue to digital technology but the passage from linear to interactive narrative. Both linear and interactive documentaries try to create a dialogue with reality, but the media they use afford the creation of different products. A linear documentary that is distributed through the Internet is digital, but if it is not interactive it does not affords new types of construction of reality. The introduction of interactivity, through new media, brings with it new dynamics which, with time, creates new possible aims and therefore new epistemologies. This paper is composed as follows: We look into principles of New media in Chapter 2, and summarize features of interactive documentary in Chapter 3, then categorize Online Version Only. Book made by this file is ILLEGAL.