In the article called ‘The Future is in Interactive Storytelling’ written by Noah Wardip-Fruin and Michael Mateas, they mentioned that merging storytelling and software [interactive storytelling] is a groundbreaking experience.

‘We’re Happy and We Know It: Documentary, Data, Montage’ written by Jon Dovey and Mandy Rose wrote about how powerful data is especially in the modern time. Including or using data to make a documentary film also became widely known [for instance, data plays a huge role in Jonathan Harris’s projects]. It is stated from their work that we leave a trace of ourselves in our computer and mobile devices, and we can see this through accessing the history section of our internet or google account. For example, I can view the previous posts that I did on my Facebook account through the section called Timeline.

Most of the projects that they mentioned includes people’s emotion and behaviour like in the project called ‘We Feel Fine’ by Harris and Kevmar. From my understanding, this project was done through getting data from the language-based forms of social media communication then incorporating this to their project. With these works, interactive projects are more interesting as it gives the viewers different options and choice to choose. [algorithm predicts the person’s taste in music, movies, etc.]

What I found interesting in this reading is that Popcorn Maker allows web filmmakers to make their movies more interactive by linking a real-time news, social media posts and many more by using JavaScript which increases the viewer’s interest in the project. They also mentioned the potential of Spacial Montage, “where montage is understood in the cinematic sense, as in the ‘Kuleshov effect”‘ (Dovey & Rose 2012). Combining this two is the result of Harris’s and Kevmar’s project mentioned above [We Feel Fine]. In one screen, the viewer can see a still image and a video.

As Spacial Montage was mentioned in this blog, I’ll be writing about the Korsakow Software in my next blog.