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Walking the Edit is an innovative system to “walk a movie” : your recorded walk will be translated into a movie through an iPhone app'.It’s great that videos, pictures and other data can be geolocalized thus creating an ‘augmented space’. But we are left to wonder… how can we turn this abundance of information into a story? Can we build a narrative with all this geolocalized information? How can we make a visit to this augmented space a more coherent and enriching experience?‘Walking the Edit’ enables you to ‘walk a movie’ based on the shared audiovisual pieces that are virtually existing around us. The concept is simple, you walk through a neighborhood, our iPhone app tracks your progress and translates your itinerary into a story drawing from the multitude of virtual information held in the ‘augmented space’. All this in realtime!Once your trajectory is translated into a movie you can watch it on the website http://walking-the-edit.net/en/ and see the movies of other people.

Walking the Edit

Walking the Edit is an innovative system to “walk a movie” : your recorded walk will be translated into a movie through an iPhone app'.

It’s great that videos, pictures and other data can be geolocalized thus creating an ‘augmented space’. But we are left to wonder… how can we turn this abundance of information into a story? Can we build a narrative with all this geolocalized information? How can we make a visit to this augmented space a more coherent and enriching experience?

‘Walking the Edit’ enables you to ‘walk a movie’ based on the shared audiovisual pieces that are virtually existing around us. The concept is simple, you walk through a neighborhood, our iPhone app tracks your progress and translates your itinerary into a story drawing from the multitude of virtual information held in the ‘augmented space’. All this in realtime!

Once your trajectory is translated into a movie you can watch it on the Walking the Edit website http://walking-the-edit.net/en/ and see the movies of other people.

Two teams of specialists prepare the terrain :

1. A production team survey a delimited territory and gather audiovisual fragments which reveal the specific characteristics of this space : details, portraits, meetings. Emphasis is placed on the uniqueness of the viewpoint and on the intensity of the regard which documents the reality.

2. The collected images and sounds are indexed and are assigned a geographical location on a digital map by the team of editors. Each audiovisual fragment constitutes a medium which will be indexed according to objective and subjective attributes. It is these attributes which then permit selection of the media depending on the analysis of the visitor’s trajectory.

It is at this point that the public enters the scene and can use the system :

Equipped with an iPhone (personal or borrowed) and the software created as part of the project, visitors wander through the urban space. They hear the soundtrack of the film which they are walking and watch the editing process taking place via their machine interface. Their trajectory will “awaken” the images and then link them together…

Once the walk is complete, the visitors, now become viewers, can watch “their trajectories translated into films” on the project’s internet site and can publish them if they wish to do so. Each film thus generated makes it possible to (re)immerse oneself into the “digital memory” of the urban space.

The blog of the project http://blog.walking-the-edit.net/

The website http://walking-the-edit.net