In a bit of serendipitous surfing last fall, I stumbled onto “What Happened Here?” a presentation by Harvey Smith and Matthias Worch at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The presentation focused on environmental storytelling and referred not only to gaming, but also to documentary photography, narrative journalism and a treatise on comic [...]
Tag Archives: interactive narratives
Harvey Smith on environmental storytelling and embedding narrative: “It has to be possible to miss some things to make finding them meaningful”
January 14, 2011 – 1:44 pm
Writing is part of the digital story: examples of powerful multimedia presentations that incorporate (not just link to) good nonfiction writing
April 23, 2010 – 10:46 am
[Earlier this week, Jacqueline Marino wrote about the many words that often accompany multimedia stories on Interactive Narratives, a showcase of such work sponsored by the Online News Association. Today, she provides some examples of presentations that integrate writing into the storytelling.]
Annesha’s daughter prays in front of the Altar in the backyard (Joshua Cogan 2008)
1. Hope: Living [...]
The importance of words in multimedia storytelling
April 21, 2010 – 3:53 pm
Journalists are told to write short for the Web. The online audience wants information, not a lovely phrase or a rousing metaphor. “On the Web, people want to move quickly,” says Hoa Loranger, quoted on a video for a Web writing session at the 2009 Online News Association conference. “Our challenge is to adapt to that behavior.”
Journalism—even that of [...]
Peggy Nelson on new media narratives: “Every Twitter account is a character”
February 12, 2010 – 5:05 pm
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 [...]
“Cutthroat Capitalism” strips down story to chase pirate treasure
November 5, 2009 – 2:09 pm
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. [...]
