Stories are an affirmation of our human value; they teach us what life means, make and keep us human. Marvel, by removing the human from its storytelling, may be bringing about the end of story altogether.
Astonishing piece of writing, whether you agree or no.
Troy Innocent, and colleague Michaela Gleave, are opening their new exhibitions at the Anna Pappas Gallery in Prahran on Friday night. I’m totally bummed I can’t go to the opening night, but am hoping that a few of you might be able to tag along on behalf of the Story Lab! I’ll be heading to the exhibition once I’m back from interstate, for sure.
Full details here.
Online interactive graphic novels – Storybook 2.0? Check out this amazing piece of art here.
This might be of interest to those of you keen to discover more about the history of transmedia storytelling. Interesting that two of the three Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs predated Murray’s work on Agency!
In the 1990s, Theresa Duncan and collaborators made three videogames that exemplified interactive storytelling at its very best.
Two decades later, the works (like most CD-ROMs) have fallen into obscurity, but they remain as luminous and compelling as ever. This online exhibition—copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of First Look: New Art Online—brings them back, making them playable online.
Read the rest of the article (and play the games!) here.
Head to this website and scroll to the bottom to begin the immersive, branded, storytelling experience being used to promote the new Aussie flick Kill Me Three Times starring Simon Pegg.
It’s easier to reach millions of people than ever, and great stories are doing just that.
While a post on Buzzfeed or The New York Times is far likelier to get 5 million hits, a post on your personal blog can still accomplish that. It could hit the front page of Reddit or get shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook or get syndicated by a big publication.
Storytellers today have the best tools, the best distribution channels, and the largest audience in history.
This article is an old favourite, for thinking ‘outside the box’ when it comes to story and how it should operate, and also for different ideas on where stories should come from.
Story gives humans a chance at survival.
Because of story and our willingness to guess, we achieve what most animals cannot: We pass along knowledge.
Naked and fragile, humans thrive in spite of a lack of armor or fangs because of story. All other animals must discover the world anew every generation. We iterate on each others’ knowledge.
It’s also handy as we move into our stories, and as we think about how to fracture them for different platforms.
Those of you looking at doing murder mysteries or immersive theatre-type stuff might be interested in this BBC Writers’ Room project.
Gal Gadot plays Wonder Woman.
With so many female superhero productions in the works, all signs are pointing to a new era of super-women in a genre that’s long been a boys’ club.
“It’s going to be really exciting for girls and women to see themselves represented on the screen,” says Sam Maggs, an editor for geek girl culture site The Mary Sue and author of the upcoming book The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Maggs says the surge of female superheroes is likely because women have been able to voice their desire to see more onscreen representation in recent years.
“I really feel like the advent of social media and these communities online has such a big impact on this,” she says. “Because before, 10 years ago, eight years ago, when we had a problem with it, there were no outlets to speak out about it.”
Full article here.
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