The Miller book Digital Story Telling has so much information it is almost hard to put it into a comment so I decided to blog about it instead.
Though a lot of the information through out the book is repeated over and over again a new angle is added as well. One of the main things to start with is how everything is ususally started looking back to see where we came from and then from there plot our course forward. As explained by Darius Medjubi a ATEC professor from UT and UTD the navigation metaphor is a corner stone of grasping any concept. So we look at storytelling and the digital is not all that different from what we have done in the past.
What struck me is the interactivity has actually just adapted itself to the new tools available to us now and as we get new ones the art of storytelling seems to adapt and change like a fluid moving into a new container.
We once started with the art of the bard and the campfire which isn’t all that different from what we experience camping around the fire with s’mores. Then there was a written language that helped archive these stories and both were essentially similar in the interaction. People didn’t like what was said there was an instant feed back. The written language evolved into the printed book. Still the interaction was the same now only on a more massive level and more so that people were able to now see the exact phrases. This is a huge difference from written and especially oral work since now the artist or performer of the story is not adding their own spin on a copy.
From here we go to audio which as much as we take for granted is a very very new thing comparatively in history. History is also moving a lot faster in innovation than we may realize at times. It was only about 50 years ago that pictures were actually mass distributed as moving and even then it was a very new medium to tell a story with.
Film and audio are now thought of as basic means of communication though also they are also still very much so growing and developing means of art. As we get the camera closer to what the human eye is capable of and smaller to have with us everywhere instead of just when it’s there it will change in the way we see things.
How is this all relevant?
Digital storytelling is all of the old mediums combined. Only now the reaction is the mediums combined as well.
Not only do we have mixed mediums but we also combine the different forms of storytelling. This however is not a new concept.
I just never realized we tell stories through other mediums like, games.
Now we have so many options with digital mediums we can combine everything.
As it now is what we are contemplating to make a story but with interactivity in the traditional sense. Yet, the traditional sense is thought of as ground breaking.
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