Alternative Models of Digital Storytelling
- Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative by Pedro Monteiro discusses and links to examples of new approaches.
- Blurb rich media e-books – what’s needed now are some creative people to push the limits of this medium.
- Webby nominees and winners:
- Animation: ROME – 3 Dreams of Black – http://www.ro.me – requires Chrome.
- Best use of photography:
- winner: God’s Lake Narrows
- nominee: Beyond 9/11
- nominee: Starved for Attention
- Best use of video or moving images:
- Harvey Smith, environmental storytelling and embedding narrative: including games: “Smith and Worch contrast gaming with fictional exposition, arguing that gaming requires the player to take a role in interpreting information, building a story of ‘what happened here.’ While a lot of stellar narrative nonfiction also leaves room for readers or viewers to interpret events, they suggest that gaming takes it to another level entirely.”
- the slides from the Worch & Smith and their speakers’ notes
- Biblion: The Boundless Library ”is a step beyond the digital magazine. This free iPad app and upcoming website allows readers to chart their own journeys through NYPL’s collections. In semi-annual issues, participants map new ways of reading, processing information, and enjoying an immersive magazine experience. Images, text, film, audio, and more are tied together with online communities to create new storytelling possibilities.” 3/31/12
- Welcome to Pinepoint. This won two Webby Awards, for Documentary: Individual Episode in the Online Film & Video category and Netart in the Websites category.
- Highrise — described on Nieman Storyboard: ”A more experimental approach to delivering documentary, HIGHRISE is a multi-city, multi-year project recording ‘the human experience in global vertical suburbs.’ Under the direction of documentarian Katerina Cizek, “HIGHRISE” uses layered images to recreate 360-degree views of participants’ living spaces, and offers audio of them talking about life in apartments and projects from Beruit to Phnom Penh and Chicago to Havana. Viewers can scroll through people or places, and click on rooms in a virtual highrise to find the apartment of a real person somewhere in the world. See the trailer or visit the site.”
- Airsick from MediaStorm. Nowhere near as radically different as some stories, but an interesting variation on more traditional photos + sound.
- Intended Consequences, Jonathan Torgovnik, Media Storm