7 - The Future of Storytelling?

CineNation: Episode 6 - Future of Storytelling?
Transmedia Examples
 

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries:

“The New Way to Tell Old Stories”:

“Transmedia Stories are Winning the Internet”

The Complete Playlist of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs&list=PL_ePOdU-b3xcDyyzeR5NjxeLEElsqYzn1

The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch a Transmedia Reference:

Marble Hornets

The Complete Playist of Marble Hornets  

 
Podcast Storytelling

Serial Podcast

The Podcast We’ve Been Waiting For:

The Serial Podcast:

 
Other Forms
 

INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY WITH STORY ENGINE!

Drop everything and watch this!

Kickstarter for interactive fiction. iPad app + printed book.

Software they built the interactive story on -

Amazing installation and app work!

One of their best examples

Sosolimited: real time video effects for use among groups

17min language / sentiment analysis

21min lighting the London Eye based on twitter

Memo Akten: bizarre interactive installations

38min mark for crazy example

43min mark for yet another

 
People to Follow
Aaron Reed - IF Writer / Designer

Ice-Bound

18 Cadence

Blue Lacuna -

“what if i’m the bad guy” -

Augmented reality experience built on the iPad.

Allows the user to rearrange objects within the system along different axis like time and physical location.

Aaron Koblin - one of the top interactive visual dogs

 
Interactive Documentaries
Interactive Documentary -
 
- MIT Database of interactive docs!!

- The Impossible Image - video about the project

“Beauty is one of the main lines to make people feel something - it’s the sharpest tool in the box. And if you’re trying to make people feel something, and you make it beauty they’ll sit up and listen.” 5:30~min

Interactive Fiction

Easy, web based system for building interactive stories -

- Character based system for designing IF.

 
Examples of Interactive Stories
Interactive story that feels a little like a game, but is weighted with a lot of meaning and depth in each step - - text based web game
 
- web based
 
- built in Inform 7 I think
 
- iPad App built on Versu