When the Lights Went Out is a feature length documentary with an interactive mobile app and immersive experience by Red on Black Productions telling the true stories of the people who experienced Sandy and how New York and the rest of the country joined forces to clean up the mess.
As participants walk through the streets of New York, they’ll hear stories from the people who experienced them as well as videos, photos and written accounts.
How do you take part?
**Download the Moveable Feast app to listen to “When the Lights Went Out” which captures some of the many stories of those affected by Hurricane Sandy (available from Tuesday, February 19, 2013)
Note: You must download the app before you click on the link for the story. At this time, the app only works on iOS devices as it’s still in Beta.
**Send us a video or pictures of your experience with Sandy to the hashtag #LightsOutDoc and we’ll add them to our growing documentary.
Most of all, show those that were affected by Sandy that you still care and give your time (or a bit of your lunch money) to those organisations still helping in hard hit areas.
These include (but are not limited to):
Waves for Water
The Red Hook Initiative
Respond and Rebuild
Staten Island Unity
Boots on the Ground
American Red Cross
City Harvest
Points of Light
As part of Social Media Week in New York (February 18-22, 2013) and Bushwick Film Festival, we shared the first version of our full immersive experience. Participants not only used the mobile app around the city, but they also:
**Visited the Social Media Week Global HQ to watch the short clips of the documentary of When the Lights Went Out between planned social media week sessions.
**Left comments on our story wall by the coffee station in Global HQ. They answered the question: “What compels us to connect to others’
**Watched a mash-up of NASA footage and interviews with scientists on the effect of climate change.
**Listened to stories of the many volunteers who helped the country rebuild.
**Headed to the Soho Gallery of Digital Art from Monday, February 18-Friday, February 22, 2013, where they saw a collection of mobile images from Hurricane Sandy and the days and months afterward. The exhibit was curated in conjunction with Sandy Storyline, an web based documentary project.
More information on Red on Black Productions:
Red on Black Productions is a UK/US based production company which integrates online platforms & communities with filmmaking. Their short doc, Wild West Dream, the story of the only UK cowboy, premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2009. Most recently, their short film, Sounds of Us, was featured as part of the critically acclaimed Museum of Broken Relationships and is now on permanent exhibition in Zagreb.
Shift Control Delete, a feature documentary questioning how a loss of the Internet and social networking will affect society, is currently in post-production. In 2012 they launched of their New York based online cooking show, Home Baked Stories, and are working toward their second season of the sci-fi web series, Raptured, for release in 2013.
