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INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES: CREATING THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING
Interactive Narratives: Creating the Future Of StorytellingSXSW Interactive | March 14, 2011
INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES: CREATING THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING
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Introduction: Defining and Creating an Interactive Narrative…………..4Andrew Lewellen – Content Strategist, Razorfish
“The Three Little Pigs”: Authoring an iPad App…………………………10Josh Koppel – Founder, ScrollMotion
The Role of Social Media in Interactive Storytelling……………………28Esther Lim - Founder, The Estuary, LLC
Participation: Why, What & How…….……………………………………38Robert Pratten – CEO, Transmedia Storyteller.com
Summary…….………………………………………………………………56
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Introduction: Defining and Creating an Interactive Narrative
Andrew LewellenContent Strategist, Razorfish
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What Is An Interactive Narrative?
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What Is An Interactive Narrative?
An Interactive Narrative
• Has an authored core story• This could be a mobile app, a print book, a web site. Or nothing more than a sheet
of paper with a Central Dramatic Question, story arc, plot, and character sketches.
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What Is An Interactive Narrative?
An Interactive Narrative
• Has an authored core story• This could be a mobile app, a print book, a web site. Or nothing more than a sheet
of paper with a Central Dramatic Question, story arc, plot, and character sketches.
• Has a social narrative• The lives of the characters expand into a shared social space where the audience
can learn more about them and become more engaged with the story.
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What Is An Interactive Narrative?
An Interactive Narrative
• Has an authored core story• This could be a mobile app, a print book, a web site. Or nothing more than a sheet
of paper with a Central Dramatic Question, story arc, plot, and character sketches.
• Has a social narrative• The lives of the characters expand into a shared social space where the audience
can learn more about them and become more engaged with the story.
• Integrates and encourages audience participation• The plot moves outside of the core story and utilizes a social dialogue to engage
readers with the story and its outcome.
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What Is An Interactive Narrative?
A dynamic story that allows for personalized engagement and narrows the gap between writer and reader.
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“The Three Little Pigs” Authoring an iPad App
Josh Koppel Founder, ScrollMotion
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The Original Experience
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Revising the Story Assets
• Digital book building turns pages into pixels
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Step 1: Asset Assessment
Image Characteristics• 18 Jpegs• 450 x 420• Vertical Orientation• Public Domain Content
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Step 1: Asset Assessment
Text Characteristics• 18 Pages• One paragraph per page
Audio Characteristics• 18 Individual Files (Page by Page)• MP3 Files
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Step 2: Visual Layout
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Step 2: Visual Layout
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Step 2: Visual Layout
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Step 2: Visual Layout
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Step 2: Visual Layout
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Step 3: Extra Features Encourage Personalized Engagement
• Play Modules• Record Your Own Audio
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The Role of Social Media in Interactive Storytelling
Esther LimFounder, The Estuary, LLC
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Esther LimFounder, The Estuary, LLC
The Role of Social Media in Interactive Storytelling
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Social Media is a content layering tool to provide extra content to fans
When used as an alternate narrative platform, Social Media can:
• Enrich the primary story through greater character/scenario details
• Extend the primary story through exploration of additional standalone yet related story universes
• Engage audiences by bringing the fictional world into the real world through social interaction, shared experiences and co-authorship
SummarySocial Media as a narrative/engagement platform
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• Use micro blogs like Twitter or Tumblr to capture real time events unfolding and tweet call to actions
• Use social mobile media to drive readers to specific locations for more content discovery
Activate audience participationHow do you use social media as a narrative platform?
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• Emotional Connection: Audiences can form “friendships” with the character
• Community Building: Friendships and community forms around shared experiences
• Engagement/Co-Authorship: Opportunity for readers to share ideas about the story that can later be integrated into future story development
Audience Connection and EngagementBenefits of using social media in your narrative
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• Story Awareness and Discovery: Bring your story to where people play online
• Content syndication/sharing: Good stories create social cache and are shared across friend/fan networks
• Improves search engine discoverability: More mentions, hyperlinks, tags and discussions drives better search engine visibility
• Audience acquisition: Multiple storytelling platforms create more entry points for entering and engaging with the story and its community of readers
Marketing and PromotionBenefits of using social media in your narrative
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1. Understand your audience and how they consume content
2. Design the level of reader participation you want to build
3. Identify the best social media platforms for your story/character
4. Build natural entry points (“rabbit holes”) in the story that lead to alternate supporting narratives
5. Leverage platform features to augment story experience
6. Write the experience for all three tiers of content consumers:
• Passive Consumer
• Occasional Participant/Lurker
• Die Hard Fan
7. Allow enough ramp up time (4-6 weeks) for character integration into a community. Relationships are not built overnight.
How do I know if social media is right for my story?Getting started with social media narrative
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Esther LimFounder, The Estuary, LLC
esther@theestuarysf.com
www.theestuarysf.com
@geekgrl or @theestuarysf
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Participation: Why, What & How
Robert PrattenCEO, Transmedia Storyteller.com
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Summary
• Leave a door open
• Good stories work with or without interactivity• Build on what you know• Structure for enthusiasm
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Why bother with participation?• The business case
– lower costs• marketing is integrated into the product (as it
should be)– increased sales
• social recommendation & spread• empowerment of advocates
– engagement is measurable• The creative case
– audience interaction is thrilling and addictive
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How do I do it?• Objective:
– Make it easy– Make it worthwhile, meaningful, fun
• Steps– Sketch the experience you want to create
(consider artistic and commercial scenarios)– Layer your story for different levels of
enthusiasm such that it works for the lazy andrewards the fan
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Make it easy
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Incentivize participation
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Layering your story
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Additional content for fans
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Content for attraction
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Layers united by story
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Examples• Lowlifes.tv
– solo participation– QR codes offer additional subplot– email-based (alternative reality) game
• Horror Unlimited short story– play with friends– two-player twitter game
• 3 Interactive Pigs– play in teams– multiplayer interactive storytelling
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3 Interactive Pigs• Strong authorship (story is on rails) but…• Audience decides outcome at plot points
– House of Straw, House of Sticks, House of Bricks• Pigs vs Wolf – you decide! • Do the pigs live or die? • Why bother?
– Fun to create and fun to play– Facilitate social play which
• strengthens relationships• raise awareness of other (paid) media
– Reward fans
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3 Interactive Pigs in Layers
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Call To Action
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Layered Engagement
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Poking friends
Matchword used to trigger Conducttr - tells @BigBadWolf_2011 to send a tweet to these friends
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Summary• Leave a door open
• Good stories work with or without interactivity• Build on what you know• Structure for enthusiasm
• Lower costs• Increased sales
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Start writing for audience engagement: www.tstoryteller.com
Robert PrattenCEO TransmediaStoryteller.com@zenfilms or @tstoryteller
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Summary
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Summary
An Interactive Narrative
• Has an authored core story.
• Has a social narrative.
• Integrates and encourages audience participation.
• Is a dynamic story that allows for personalized engagement and narrows the gap between writer and reader.
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Questions?
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Thank You!