Projects 2013

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James Lyons is a Senior Lecturer in Film in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. James is currently working on a manuscript on risk and performance in non-fiction film.

Matt Golding is Film writer, director & digital Creative Director at Team Rubber. Working in comedy, drama, transmedia and social media.

Journal Authors

James Lyons

Matt Golding

The Risk Taker's Survival Guide

 

From 9/11 to horse meat scares, scenarios of risk surround our lives. But how good are we calculating risk? ‘The Risk Taker's Survival Guide’ is a short interactive documentary that takes you on a journey to explore your engagement with day-to-day risk. This short film will peel back the data and assimilate the stats, to uncover a precarious world, where you’ll need to make quick and decisive choices, equipping you with a mental toolkit to help you stay calm in a complex world.

Journal Entries

Documenting Risk - Tom Hanks has diabetes, suddenly we care.

Tue 22 Oct, 2013
We've been spending a lot of time thinking about story structure, and the way in which we can re-orient our audiences' thinking about risk from big, dramatic events to the everyday...
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Documenting Risk - an overview

Wed 9 Oct, 2013

There's no doubt that many of the most astonishing, enthralling, and terrifying documentaries released in recent years have depicted human beings in situations of extreme risk.

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