When the TriBeCa Film Festival decided to get to grips with the inevitable social chatter that would be taking place on Twitter around the 2010 festival they took a look at Artifact's work and asked us to build them a Twitter visualizer. It soon became clear that we would have to make something quite substantial to accommodate the hundreds of screenings and multiple locations of the Festival.
When the TriBeCa Film Festival decided to get to grips with the inevitable social chatter that would be taking place on Twitter around the 2010 festival they took a look at Artifact’s work and asked us to build them a Twitter visualizer.
It soon became clear that we would have to make something quite substantial to accommodate the hundreds of screenings and multiple locations of the Festival. We came up with a dramatic aerial map of Manhattan that contained pinpoints for each location. Inside the locations are a series of animated movie theater lobbies that represent the festival venues. Whenever anyone tweets about a film screening at the venue their tweet appears in the space along with a suitably TriBeCa-looking avatar to represent them!
We also made a player that plays all the trailers for the films playing in each venue. We think it’s an elegant and powerful solution to a dynamic and complex challenge.
