We spoke this week with Marie-Claude Dupont, producer of the GDP Project, an effort to document the economic crisis in Canada. Funded by the National Film Board, the project’s filmmakers track the lives of 15 Canadians for one year, while photographers simultaneously collect images and audio from around over the country. Dupont, who has worked [...]
Category Archives: interactive narratives
“Bottoming Out” from the Las Vegas Sun: citizen journalism folded into multimedia storytelling
When Las Vegas Sun staffer Scott Den Herder saw Tony McDew at an area nightclub last year, he could tell by McDew’s “outrageous” 1980s outfit and high-top fade haircut that he’d make an interesting character in a story. What he didn’t know was that McDew was a gambling addict who had been filming himself for [...]
Still images and storytelling in the digital era: more from the February Frontline/International Center of Photography symposium
[Second in a series of posts about a February meeting on the future of visual narrative sponsored by Frontline and the International Center of Photography.] With the decline of print newspapers, what will happen to the still images that formed the bedrock of visual storytelling? Veteran photographers, television producers and filmmakers discussed the issue last month in [...]
Who rubbed out Arthur Kasherman? Noir, the Star Tribune and a senior thesis combine for multimedia storytelling
A little shy of midnight on a January night in 1945, someone shot Minneapolis muckraker Arthur Kasherman as he sat with a friend in his Oldsmobile. Firing several more times, the gunman pursued Kasherman as he climbed out of the car. Kasherman died at the scene, and the killer—whose name he seemed to have known—was [...]
Peggy Nelson on new media narratives: “Every Twitter account is a character”
We talked this week with Peggy Nelson, a new media artist who has spent the last several years doing digital and virtual storytelling. While Nelson’s work is rooted in conceptual art rather than journalism, she has created stories in nearly every medium, including some we hadn’t thought of (like PowerPoint and iPhone Apps). Nelson came [...]
Boston Bookfuturists look at mapping, charting new narratives
Continuing the “future of narrative” theme for this week, today we look at some of the experimental stories discussed at the first-ever Boston Bookfuturists Meetup on January 29, hosted by Joanne McNeil of Tomorrow Museum. Nieman Lab director Josh Benton attended and brought back some links to interesting new approaches to narrative. The discussion touched on “Mr. [...]
Statistics as story: narrative journalism by the numbers?
Earlier this year, at the first TED conference in India, Hans Rosling predicted the year and month that India and China will overtake the West and return Asia to world dominance. He began in classic storytelling mode with a personal anecdote. “Once upon a time, at the age of 24” Rosling said, “I was a student [...]
“Cutthroat Capitalism” strips down story to chase pirate treasure
by MacGregor Campbell |
November 5, 2009
In WIRED’s recent take on Somali piracy, “Cutthroat Capitalism”, Scott Carney leads what might have been a meaty narrative straight into a piranha-infested stream. What he pulls out on the other side is a story picked clean of words, revealing foundational economic forces that drive modern day pirates, expressed as a series of well-dressed equations. [...]
Will KCET’s “Departures” set the pace for community storytelling?
Last week, the USC Annenberg School on Communications and the National Arts Journalism Program hosted a National Summit on Arts Journalism at USC, highlighting five public projects that are exploring new trends in journalism. One of the projects, “Departures,” from Los Angeles PBS station KCET, is focused on community storytelling, with students using images and audio [...]
