Transient Spaces

Week 8

Agenda

Blogging tips

Storytelling

The challenge of non-linearity

The challenge of incorporating participation

Missed last week – Epic 2015– if we have time

Interesting blog entries

Hashtag searches:

Sara’s entry is not only about her doco, but may give you something interesting to think about regarding social media.

Interesting blog entries

Yanna’s entry is about a bookShe’s found directly relevant to her doco topic. Good research !

Interesting blog entries

Christoph’s entry show him using social media to engage with his community.

Interesting blog entries

Dhiraj is struggling to get peopleTo interview. He may need a different approach..

Interesting blog entries

Jessie is developing her aesthetic and structure.

Tiny Story: fundamentals of narrative design

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669074/tiny-story-a-short-film-about-the-fundamentals-of-narrative-design

6 critical elements of storytelling

Illustrated in ‘Caine’s Arcade’:

1. Simple. A boy. An idea. Some boxes. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.

2. Unexpected. This video had at least four unexpected things: An unusually creative boy; a video maker who accidentally stumbled upon the boy’s arcade; a flash mob; and Caine’s surprise at the flash mob….

3. Concrete. There’s one moment that stuck with me more than any other: Caine manually feeding prize tickets through a hole in the box. If there’s a second moment I remember, it’s the claw machine. If there’s a third, it’s the calculator he used to track legitimate “Fun Pass” users. All three of those details are concrete, and the story was more effective for its total absence of abstractions.

--Brad Phillips, The 6 traits of great storytelling—in one adorable video http://www.prdaily.eu/PRDailyEU/Articles/11408.aspx

6 critical elements of storytelling (cont)

4. Credible. Totally. Not a single false note.

5. Emotional. Before my wife showed me the video, she sheepishly admitted that it had made her cry. I mildly teased her. Then I watched it and teared up, as well. It felt deeply satisfying to see the boy’s industriousness rewarded. And the father’s pride in his son’s achievement? How wonderful to see a struggling businessman in East L.A. enjoy such rich satisfaction.

6. Stories. Back to the first “S:” a boy, an idea, some boxes. Stories can’t get stripped down much further, proving that good stories don’t require complexities to work.

--Brad Phillips, The 6 traits of great storytelling—in one adorable video http://www.prdaily.eu/PRDailyEU/Articles/11408.aspx

6 critical elements of storytelling (cont)

TEDtalk about storytelling.

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story http://t.co/HYSLMNWS

“embracing non-linearity in digital storytelling  does three important things:

It recognizes that your audience may not be interested in everything you have to say about a subject

It empowers your audience to participate in the creation of the narrative surrounding your subject

It allows you to create a practically-infinite number of stories with any given media collection rather than forcing you to slave over the creation of one fixed narrative that may or may not resonate with your audience.

--Mike Nutt, Non-linear narrative in digital storytelling http://www.uncstorylab.org/2010/06/non-linear-narrative-in-digital-storytelling/

Non-linearity

“The evolution of interactive media means the story no longer flows in one direction, from the one to the many. Through a framework of possibility that visitors use to weave their own story, the narrative is only visible in hindsight—when their path is revealed—the path that was their history, their story—that is the second story.”

—Brad Johnson, Creative Director, Second Story quoted by Mike Nutt, Non-linear narrative in digital storytelling http://www.uncstorylab.org/2010/06/non-linear-narrative-in-digital-storytelling/

Non-linearity

Ie, letting your community make their own comment / tell their own stories

Makes non-linearity even more complicated

Can be achieved by use of social media within your doco

The means to do this are still just being developed Eg. Putting a Twitter widget showing a hashtag feed in

your doco’s blog: http://cyclistsvmotorists.tumblr.com/ Other means of comment: setting up a Facebook page. Allowing comments in a blog usually doesn’t work, you

will get too much spam.

Participation

Missed last week: Epic 2015

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI

Hasn’t all cometrue, but it still might