Interactive documentary as digital age phenomenon

This article examines a range of issues related to the contemporary field research interactive documentary, which represents a rapidly growing and promising documentary genre. The focus is on qualitative characteristics of the phenomenon of interactive documentary, the diversity of its modern forms. The results of the study indicated that taking into account the ambiguity of the translation of the English word documentary and prematurity a broad approach in defining a new genre, we offer to temporarily use the term «interactive documentary». As any concept suggests a relatively clear content and relatively clearly defined amount, the interactive documentary we propose to consider «documenting reality» of an audiovisual work, the creators are, putting at the corner meaningful user experience, tend to use the unique properties of interactive digital media for the realization of documentary content in artistic form. Such audiovisual works are not all the projects idoc. For a more detailed discussion is pushed us definition of «interactive documentary» the need for detailed analysis of complex issues, particularly concerning the aesthetics of interactive documentary.