Yesterday, I wrote about my love for interactive stories like the participatory real-life narrative being built around the television show, Lost. Turns out I'm not the only thinking about fan-influenced, cross-media stories this week.
Steve Bryant has this great post about i-Pod and non-traditional media content, and then veers into an exploration of interactive stories that i-Pods and portable media can produce:
"The Stranger Adventures piece is really interesting. It's an interactive "show" that makes use of multiple mediums, and it's aimed at kids. There have been several attempts at mixing real-world, get-off-your-ass interaction and online media in the last few years. Most of the ones I've seen have been pretty arty.
Dennis Crowley, a graduate of NYU's ITP program, started one such service that was gobbled up by Google: dodgeball.com. He was also behind Pac-Manhattan, a live-action game in which players chased each other by following GPS way points. Of course, neither of these things are video shows, but they're still neato."
Then, Chartreuse wrote about how audiences can contribute to a media experience on the Internet, using one of my favorite web examples, Snakes on a Plane. This potential box office bomb could become the first geeky cult movie of 21st Century, a Rocky Horror Picture Show for my kids to watch...
Just read his post:
"The movie isn't released until August. But there is little doubt it will make money because of the experience surrounding it created by the authentic audience (user generated content is sooo last week). Take a look at a piece of the Wikipedia entry: 'Snakes on a Plane quickly became an Internet meme soon after Josh Friedman's blog entry and mentions on several Internet portals. The title inspired bloggers to create songs, apparel, poster art, pages of fan fiction, parody films, and mock movie trailers.'"
I think of pirate radio when I think of podcasting. Unlicensed anarchy radio. NO restrictions. Like the internet used to be, prior to the new laws to destroy net neutrality.
Posted by: v[a-S*)p#E^r,S !T_h'e >g.R=aT;e | April 14, 2006 10:45 PM | Permalink to Comment