Interactive Documentary: 10 Things I have Learned
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The document outlines key lessons learned about the importance of storytelling in the context of technology and design. It emphasizes that storytelling is essential for meaning-making, highlights the evolution of audience roles in media, and underscores the need for user experience design in storytelling. Additionally, it encourages interactivity, clear success indicators, and the importance of listening in the storytelling process.
Interactive Documentary: 10 Things I have Learned
- 1. @fromthehip Stories + Technology + Design 10 Things I Have Learned
- 3. “I think stories are necessary, just as necessary as food and love. It’s how we make meaning of our lives.” - Chimamanda Ngochi Adichie
- 4. Tell me and I will forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I will understand.
- 5. Technology has always changed how we see and talk about the world 2
- 8. This slide was stolen from David Eads. Sorry David.
- 9. Agile Film User Soundtrack Code Edit Design Jump-cut GitHub Lens Iterative Close-up Sprint Blocking Front-end Frame Software Clip Bug-tracking Boom Dev Zoom RefactoringVerite
- 10. The audience are makers and the audience has an audience 4
- 11. ... fun things to do with the people formerly known as the audience
- 12. From this...
- 14. Every time a new consumer joins this media landscape a new producer joins as well, because the same equipment - phones, computers - let you consume and produce. It's as if, when you bought a book, they threw in the printing press for free... - Clay Shirky, How Social Media Can Make History
- 15. Authorship vs Openness is a challenge 5
- 18. #tribecahacks
- 20. Transmedia can amplify local voices 7
- 24. User Experience Design is now part of what we do as storytellers 8
- 27. Stories can be both software and hardware 9
- 30. We need to show interactive work, not just talk about it 10
- 34. Of course as I was giving this talk I thought of many more lessons I’ve learned. Here are just a few. 11. Learn to listen. Storytelling is as much about listening as telling. 12. Make the interaction the story. For example the border in Gaza/Sderot: http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/ 13. Be clear about your indicators for success. If you don’t know what success means for your project, you may lose your way. 14. Sometimes you should just delight your audience. Give them things to do that make them feel wonderful.