Born on the web 

 Reframing storytelling of the web 


  reFramed - The Great Storyscape

BRIGHTON DIGITAL FESTIVAL 2013

26 September 2013

Philo van Kemenade 

 @phivk 

 This Talk 


 reframe 


 pasT 


 Present 


 Future 

 Web-Native storytelling 




A way of enabling an experience
using the capability of the web
as a mechanism for narration
from the start of the authoring process



 Stories on the web 


 STORIES Of THE WEB 



 Ben Moskowitz - A Well of Untapped Creative Possibility 


 The Past 




 we have always been storytellers 







   Lascaux cave paintings some rights reserved by Adibu456 


 OUR tools determine 



 how we 



 express ourselves 



 Hyper 

 Media 


 Text 


 Film 


 Video 

 the Complex 

 the Changing 

 and the Indeterminate 


Let me introduce the word “hypertext” to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.


 Theodor H. Nelson - A file system for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate (1965)

 Hyper Film 


Films, sound recordings, and video recordings are also linear strings, basically for mechanical reasons. But these, too, can now be arranged as non-linear systems—for instance, lattices—for editing purposes, or for display with different emphasis. [...] The hyperfilm—a browsable or vari-sequenced movie—is only one of the possible hypermedia that require our attention.


 Theodor H. Nelson - A file system for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate (1965)


 The present 










 Interactive 


 Alma - A Tale of Violence Web doc









 Connected 


 Planet Take Out - Mapping Local Chinese Takeouts 









 Collaborative 
 Do Not Touch - Crowd-sourced music video








 immersive 


 Kat Cizek - 1 Millionth Tower 









 Dynamic 


 takethislollipop.com - I Dare You 









 Remixable 











 Remixable 


 The Cosmonaut - Open source film


 The Future 




 The Future is collaborative 

 Collaborate 

Hi, there

As you might have noticed Storyplanet.com is currently down. The reason is that our servers and code have been taken hostage by two freelance developers who worked for us in the past. They claim we owe them quite a significant amount of money, and they wont reinstate Storyplanet.com unless we pay them. Unfortunately this is not an option, since we don’t respond to threats, and we wont pay for stuff that was never delivered.

I am extremely sorry for how this is affecting all of you out there who are taking part in our closed beta and supporting our idea.

We are currently working on what to do, and as a minimum get all the stories back up and running. However, there is no constructive dialogue with these people who are keeping our code hostage, so we can’t say when this crazy situation will be resolved.

Thanks for your understanding.
Bjarke Myrthu, Storyplanet founder & CEO
Bjarke Myrthu from Storyplanet 19 Sep 2013

 making this work 


  1. 28 Apr

    I think I'm doing something then but will see. Looks great. Any reason for popcorn over zeega/storyplanet/klynt?

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  2. 28 Apr

    popcorn.js = technology enabling creation of interfaces, zeega/sp/klynt = authoring tools for particular predesigned interfaces

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  3. 28 Apr

    thanks for clearing that up. what filmmakers are most interested in - i think - are things that work. the techy stuff we leave to u!

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 What if the web  

 is the platform? 



It’s all about the platform

We haven’t fully embraced the opportunities yet, have we? I certainly have not, and I’m doing it for a living! Maybe it’s because we have been telling stories in a linear fashion for so long and need to be reminded that a deeper focus on interactivity can make our storytelling natural again. Or, maybe it’s because the right technological platform for interactive storytelling just hasn’t been fully developed yet?

 

If you ask me it’s a combination of the two, and one of the things I tell myself every day is that it’s all about the platform. When the right platform is there and starts penetrating the market we just can’t help telling interactive stories all the time. They come to us naturally. But we need the platform. It’s the new campfire in the world…


 http://blog.storyplanet.com/interactivity-makes-storytelling-natural-again  





  popathon.org

 Growing a community

 of web-native storytellers 


 collaboration 

 making 

 sharing 

 technology in collaboration 




 People in collaboration 




 Should filmmakers learn how to code? 

 Should coders learn how to film? 




 Filmmaker Magazine - Should Filmmakers Learn How To Code? 

 Summary 


 Tools shape the way we express ourselves 

 Story = central, technology = support  

 We are lacking a web-native storytelling language

 Let's experiment! 

 Collaboration has the future 







 @phivk 

 these slides: slid.es/phivk/born-on-the-web

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