Put Down that Drone!

Put Down that Drone! (and other stories from Colab) is a Colab studio theme taught by Anna Jackson. This Tumblr is a dedicated to resources and inspiration related to storytelling and creative technologies.

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How to Tell a Good Story, as Explained by George Saunders, Ira Glass, Ken Burns, Scott Simon, Catherine Burns & Others

All of us instinctively respond to stories. This has both positive and negative effects, but if we don't understand it about ourselves, we've won't fully understand why people believe what they believe and do what they do.

Thursday morning storytelling inspo

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https://www.sorted.org.nz/must-reads/game-your-way-to-debt-smarts/

Sorted  (The Commission for Financial Capability) has just released a game that teaches kids about debt. Players take the role of an evil loan shark, with the aim to make as much money from borrowers as possible.

What do you think of this approach to educating kids about financial literacy? Try the game and see what you learn.

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Collaborative Meta Interactive Documentary

Some of you have expressed an interest in creating some form of interactive documentary. I think you’ll find this a really interesting and useful resource:

COME/IN/DOC - Collaborative Meta Interactive Documentary - is a transmedia meta-documentary that reflects on the interactive documentary. It consists of 3 interconnected parts: a documentary series, a multimedia platform and exhibitions.

This is the result of four years of intensive research (2012-2016) conducting interviews with experts in the field of interactive documentary with the aim of answering a basic question: what is an interactive documentary? From this starting point, the idea is to reflect about this emerging field using different platforms. The project could be described as a “meta-interactive-doc”, an interactive documentary that reflects himself on the new genre trying to answer the questions and hypotheses raised during a period of nearly 10 years of research.

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More location-based storytelling!

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French Vending Machines Dispense Short Stories

Orange vending machines at French train stations dispense short stories by young and aspiring writers.

Guerilla Storytelling. 

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Run An Empire

An upcoming iPhone game where you compete against others to capture territory in your local environment. Currently in private beta.

How do you making jogging fun/more fun? Add a competitive element and a hint of story. I hate running, but this app could maybe motivate me to give it a go.

Pan Studio’s website and Kickstarter campaign also shows how you can present a concept before you have a product ready to launch. http://panstudio.co.uk/project/run-an-empire/

Check out Zombies, Run! for a running app with a much stronger emphasis on storytelling. 

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Another webdoc that explores data + privacy and delivers a personalised experience. This is a fairly experimental project and hasn’t been fully developed I think, so you may encounter some glitches. Definitely worth looking at though.

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Do Not Track, a personalized web series about privacy and the web economy. Directed by Brett Gaylor, coproduced by Upian, Arte, ONF & BR.

Highly recommended. Great use of personalisation and data. Find out how much your really share about yourself online.

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Within

Experience the best in Virtual Reality storytelling directly on your computer, smart phone, or VR headset.

This is a great site for VR content. Best viewed with a VR device, but you can use your browser or phone too.

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Check out Arcade Fire's new interactive HTML5 music experience, “The Wilderness Downtown”.

View in Chrome. This is one of the examples of personalisation we looked at in class. Good use of Google Maps too.

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Make engaging and compelling animations online for your business or school. Create explainer videos, animated marketing videos, training videos and presentations. Make HTML5 banners and interactive video content. Use Animatron to increase ROI on your video and presentation.

This might be a fun tool for prototyping some story ideas

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Define your goals and how you will achieve them

This template is very useful if your aim is to create social change.

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6×9: A virtual experience of solitary confinement

What’s it like to spend 23 hours a day in a cell measuring 6x9 feet for days, weeks, months or even years? 6x9 is the Guardian’s first virtual reality experience, placing you inside a US solitary confinement prison cell, and telling the a story of the psychological damage that can ensue from isolation.

This is a good example of how VR is being used in journalism. Click more (on the page this post links to) to explore stories associated with this topic on the Guardian website.

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Do Not Track, a personalized web series about privacy and the web economy. Directed by Brett Gaylor, coproduced by Upian, Arte, ONF & BR.

This interactive we series uses data and personalisation very effectively. 

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Constant video surveillance, satellite tracking, radio collars… sometimes it’s hard to tell where the wired world ends and the wild one begins - Bear 71

This interactive documentary is a few years old now, but it set the standard for non-linear storytelling using a range of different media and techniques including live cams, map-based structure, a timeline and fixed duration and use of data.

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Shortland St – The Living Moment

For some of them, time has run out. Dive into the lives of some of Ferndale's most beloved characters in this interactive video. Check back each week to find a new hotspot that will give you an exclusive glimpse into the moment that will change everything.

This microsite for TVNZ’s Shortland St is an example of Wirewax in action (interactive video tool).