[arg_discuss] Interactive story-telling via podcast

[Christy Dena]

What I like about it is the challenge of creating a short film with stories
that are taking place in all/some of the points of view at once, while
you're moving through a space. I think it would be fun to choreograph such
an event...the challenge of an incamera split screen ala Figgis's TimeCode
etc...but also creating some diegetic or metaphoric reason for the 360
approach...and also, if it works, having cues in the vignettes that the
characters continue in different media too. 

This doesn't eliminate composition & editing.

The challenge (to me) is being able to compose an entire 360 environment,
choreograph the action so there is a single linear story the user can follow
with the action cues & their mouse, but also other vignettes that elaborate
or even better contradict the primary narrative. And as for editing. The
challenge is not being able to use editing. There have been plenty of
amazing long takes in filmmaking. 

Filmmaking (indeed any artform) is limited by imagination not
convention...you know that!


[NB: It's really freaky, I had planned to post about Disney's 'Magic
Connection' tests & De Palma's split screen films this weekend and 2
conversations on this list has touched on it. Weird]

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On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Christy Dena wrote:


> But as for interactive video technologies, the one that has got me  

> excited

> is the 360 camera video, where you can scroll around entire scenes:

> http://www.immersivemedia.com/. 360 scrolling around scenes created  

> with

> stills has been around for a while, but this video approach really  

> opens up

> interesting filmmaking possibilities. They're calling it "spherical

> storytelling"...



This has been around for some time, but I'm guessing smaller cameras  
and better video quality have made it more accessible. I can't recall  
the filmmaker or the name of her short, but I saw a film shot in this  
style at the Florida Film Festival. All I remember is that it was set  
in a hospital, and the filmmaker controlled the movement of the camera  
live for the audience in the theater, which was obviously not the best  
outlet for such a personally interactive form!

Personally, I don't see the value in it as a filmmaker. Two of the  
most powerful tools in filmmaking are composition and editing and this  
eliminates those, and yet the interactivity is passive -- the viewer  
cannot affect the narrative, only what they are looking at in any  
particular moment.

I definitely see the opportunities for ARGs and other cross media  
projects, but not as a stand-alone channel.

Best,

Michael Monello
Campfire
62 White Street, 3W
New York, NY 10013
212-612-9600
http://www.campfirenyc.com




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