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3. My Freedom Or Death - Condition ONE Beta
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Condition ONE is a mobile media technology company developing the tools and platform to combine filmmaking, photojournalism and mobile devices to pioneer powerful immersive experiences.
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The Libyan desert near Ras Lanouf
March, 2011
Demonstrations have given way to bloody conflict. Battle lines sway back and forth as the Benghazi-centered ragtag rebels combat Tripoli's mercenaries and loyalists. Pro-Gaddafi forces mount their first coordinated offensive, exposing the rebels as woefully untrained and unorganized. Defiance turns to anguish when casualties mount. Slivers of hope rest on defecting army generals and foreign intervention.
Photojournalist Patrick Chauvel brings us this immersive video from the rebels' front lines. "It's a very sad story," he says. "These guys are students, they're hairdressers, they're bakers, bankers, philosophers, teachers. They are no military."
Chauvel is concerned for his safety. Gaddafi loyalists target the media and could cut off any escape. Four New York Times journalists are missing at the time and an Al Jazeera cameraman dies in the days that follow. Patrick says fighting in the flat, open desert divides the rebels into two camps: lucky and unlucky. Shelling hits at random, missing by hundreds of meters one moment and striking a direct hit the next. Chauvel fears the misses are the warning shots. He plans to escape before the battle becomes a massacre.
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The Libyan desert near Ras Lanouf
March, 2011
Demonstrations have given way to bloody conflict. Battle lines sway back and forth as the Benghazi-centered ragtag rebels combat Tripoli's mercenaries and loyalists. Pro-Gaddafi forces mount their first coordinated offensive, exposing the rebels as woefully untrained and unorganized. Defiance turns to anguish when casualties mount. Slivers of hope rest on defecting army generals and foreign intervention.
Photojournalist Patrick Chauvel brings us this immersive video from the rebels' front lines. "It's a very sad story," he says. "These guys are students, they're hairdressers, they're bakers, bankers, philosophers, teachers. They are no military."
Chauvel is concerned for his safety. Gaddafi loyalists target the media and could cut off any escape. Four New York Times journalists are missing at the time and an Al Jazeera cameraman dies in the days that follow. Patrick says fighting in the flat, open desert divides the rebels into two camps: lucky and unlucky. Shelling hits at random, missing by hundreds of meters one moment and striking a direct hit the next. Chauvel fears the misses are the warning shots. He plans to escape before the battle becomes a massacre.
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That last shot of the screens reminded me of something out of Star Wars.
Interesting technology, though.
I have been covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2006. Patrick Chauvel has covered over 20 conflicts, starting in Vietnam when he was 18. We have seen how society has become numb to our still images.
So, along with our team, we are attempting to combine the power of the still image with advanced technology to change the vernacular of photojournalism and news. Instead of opening a window to glimpse another world, we are attempting to bring the viewer into that world. We believe shared experiences will ultimately build a common humanity.
Through our work we hope to shake people from their indifference to war, and to bridge the disconnect between the realities on the ground and the public consciousness at home. By bearing witness and shedding light on another's pain and despair, we are trying to invoke a common humanity and a response to act.
New technology can be a powerful medium for truth. Television broadcasts during the Vietnam War had a disruptive impact on society by providing uncensored images of war into living rooms across America for the first time. We hope to have that same impact by providing powerful immersive experiences.
Danfung
I understand that, with deep respect, and can only wish you to achieve this ambitious work, but the form here, especially the music, links at first glimpse the content to a entertainment likely background.
I'm curious about how this will evolve. Concerning the numbness to still images you evocate, i'm not quite sure of a real change brought by a moving immersive experience, only time will tell. Good luck to you and your team.
..but I see no need to show the actual iPad..
Love to see more ;)
Very Intense!!
And it's real!!
I think you need to understand that these images don't glorify war in anyway. They are aimed to display the technological advancements in combat video/photo journalism. The conflict exists in absence of these images, you're heightened sensitivity suggests you shouldn't engage on a website where such freedom of creative expression is likely to leave a deep physiological scar. Innovators, such as the video in question, take us to a place that we are not supposed to find comforting, a step further on from the immersive qualities that cameras such as the GoPro offers. In addition, your comment about the music as a trailer-like demo, if anything, the music replacing the bullets and crowd's roar actually shelters you from what could be an even more emotionally disturbing insight. I use the word shelter, not glorify...
I think questions have to be asked if we feel this is glorification back towards ourselves such as to why we feel it is and are we taking a politically correct stance because it feels safe. Are we used to the media feeding us everything in a heightened sense of fear to keep the news interesting so that when we do see something real and of importance and balance, we don't recognize it, it catches us off guard?
I think tools like this should be able to put us in a place where we could look at a soldier returning home, a Libyan rebel, a survivor from the Sudan, or anywhere else and be able to say I saw what you went through and I cannot say I truly understand how you feel due to my understanding of the enormity of the situation.
With the "Good vs Evil" point of view?
Pfff... C'MON!!!
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nice work!