{"id":326,"date":"2017-12-11T03:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emergetu.wordpress.com\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2024-05-23T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:19:29","slug":"more","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/volume-one\/i-is-for-interactive-video\/more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Showing & As The Curtain Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honorable Mentions:
\n<\/strong>Emerge <\/em>would also like to acknowledge these two interactive projects:<\/p>\n

The Showing<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Keira Wingert, Drew West, Spencer Coulton &\u00a0Ben Collins
\nGenres of Media Production: Cross-Platform Story \u2013 Summer 2016, Prof. Laura Zaylea<\/p>\n

As The Curtain Closes<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Amanda Kijak, Amanda Arnold, Emma Malefakis &\u00a0Dornella Johnson
\nGenres of Media Production: Cross-Platform Story – Spring 2016, Prof. Laura Zaylea<\/p>\n

Technical note:<\/strong> The interactive platform has updated, and these interactive narrative projects are no longer playable online. You can still read about them here and visit their project websites.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Showing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Showing<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Keira Wingert, Drew West, Spencer Coulton &\u00a0Ben Collins<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Paul the Realtor just wants to sell this house. The catch: it’s haunted. Will Paul be able to distract the couple from the supernatural forces inside The Showing<\/em>? You Decide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Project website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/yikesproductions.wixsite.com\/theshowing<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the Curtain Closes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As The Curtain Closes<\/em><\/h3>\n

By\u00a0Amanda Kijak, Amanda Arnold, Emma Malefakis &\u00a0Dornella Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n

Obsession. Lust. Lies. It\u2019s hard to find the killer of someone who is hated by just about everyone\u2026 In this interactive murder mystery, piece together the death of your leading lady.<\/p>\n

Project website:\u00a0www.AsTheCurtainCloses.wordpress.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Curatorial Statement by Laura Zaylea:<\/h3>\n

The Showing<\/em> is a horror-comedy that takes a classic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure approach.\u00a0This may seem like a default strategy for an interactive video, but it isn’t. Branching\u00a0narratives are hard to make. Consider this: Each choice on screen has to lead to at least two options, which means that the amount of work grows exponentially with each choice that’s added. Also, no thread can be a dud; if it is, Murphy’s Law says the audience will pick it. Considering this, it is\u00a0especially impressive that\u00a0the makers of The Showing\u00a0<\/em>created\u00a0a successful\u00a0Choose-Your-Own-Adventure video in just four weeks during a summer intensive course. The narrative is successful\u00a0and entertaining; it is a crowd-pleaser and it feels complete at the end – that is, it feels complete at the end no matter which of the 4 possible endings you choose. <\/em>
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As the Curtain Closes<\/em> is a \u201cwhodunit\u201d murder mystery that bridges the worlds of narrative media production and game-making. It obscures the line between these forms, playfully drawing upon narrative strategies (character desires, plot, dialog, flashbacks) and game-like interaction (clickable choices on screen, a clear goal, obstacles and a countdown timer). The video is seen through the director\u2019s eyes (that\u2019s you! The viewer!) and this first person point of view filmmaking effectively supports both the narrative and the game-like qualities.<\/p>\n

The three videos highlighted here – Here & Now<\/em>, The Showing<\/em> and As the Curtain Closes<\/em>\u00a0– take different yet complementary approaches to interactive video design. The first works with parallel threads (all videos playing simultaneously, and you can choose any one at any time), the second is a multi-linear choose-your-own-adventure narrative, and the third is a game-like mystery that you have to “solve” to complete (otherwise you loop back to the same core video, and you may see it up to 7 times if you don’t choose the correct murder weapon and suspect. Good luck, detectives!).<\/p>\n

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More about the interactive videos created for MSP 3701: Genres of Media Production – Cross-Platform Story:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OqkMeKOCmhk<\/p>\n

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Return to Emerge, Volume 1 (2015-2017)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Honorable Mentions: Emerge would also like to acknowledge these two interactive projects: The Showing By Keira Wingert, Drew West, Spencer Coulton &\u00a0Ben Collins Genres of Media Production: Cross-Platform Story \u2013 Summer 2016, Prof. Laura Zaylea As The Curtain Closes By Amanda Kijak, Amanda Arnold, Emma Malefakis &\u00a0Dornella Johnson Genres of Media Production: Cross-Platform Story – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"parent":141,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/1652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/emerge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}