Inside Out – or D4:!Dialogical Design Of Digital Drama!

Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola!

http://crucible.mblog.taik.fi!

Daisy’s Amazing Discoveries (1996)!

!http://daisy.uiah.fi/!

Shift (2002)!

!http://mlab.taik.fi/myth/!

Accidental Lovers (2006)!Alan01 (2010)!

!http://crucible.mblog.taik.fi/!

Finnpanel Ltd. statistics of viewer profiles according to the gender and age.!

SMS input rate on all twelve broadcasted story versions.!

SMS per minute during the first broadcast. Orange lines tell where information txt was shown in the middle of the screen. Pink parts are the music videos and blue ones are the scenes.!

Freytag’s triangle.!

Advice/command to character!

“Juulia be tender to Roope, don't leave him alone to the storms of life.”!

Opinion about character!

“Roope is young and hasty. He has no clue yet. Juulia will suffer.”!

Thought on theme!

“Love is a promise of a grand illusion!”!

Fantasy scene (fan fiction) !

“Cat runs away and Juulia goes looking for it but Roope finds it first and Juulia! gets lost in the city and Roope to Juulia's place but Juulia is not at home.”!

Show format!

“Program texts are so small and difficult to read.”!

Reply to character message!

“Romeo, you love Juulia but you are lusting a man. The love will be deeper after you! tell her. Do not deny yourself. Come out of the closet. Juulia will understand. Mike”!

Off topic !

Daisy’s Amazing Discoveries (1996)!

!http://daisy.uiah.fi/!

Shift (2002)!

!http://mlab.taik.fi/myth/!

Accidental Lovers (2006)!Alan01 (2010)!

!http://crucible.mblog.taik.fi/!

Time? Shall we !

Before some dialogue with or without drama...!

Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola!

http://crucible.mblog.taik.fi!

see a girlie driver?!saw a woman in half?!

Thank You!!And let’s have some dialogue with or without drama...!

Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola!

http://crucible.mblog.taik.fi!

Crucible Studio 7-step Practice-based!Research in New Media Storytelling!

1. DEFINES!new practices!

2. CREATES!experiments!

3. INVESTIGATES!validity by engaging real!users!

4. SPECIFIES!cultural, technological,!commercial... R&D needs!

5. PRODUCES!applications/practices!

6. INFORMS!about the development!of digital culture -!the stories we tell!

7. REFLECTS!the findings within peer!communities and related!fields, such as computer!sciences, social studies!and drama arts/studies!

Crucible Studio 7-step Practice-based Research in New Media Storytelling!

1. SMS messaging to TV programmes (younger generation medium) in the context of episodic drama, television’s most traditional form (older generation)!

2. ACCIDENTAL LOVERS, interactive dark musical comedy for television and mobile phones!

3. Interactive broadcast on Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE Channel 1 Dec. 27, 2006 – Jan. 5, 2007!

4. ShapeShifting media tools and technology for the production, among seven other experimental productions, and future broadband media were specified!

5. & produced within the nm2 [new millennium new media, EU IST FP 6] research project among commercialisation and cultural production models!

6. Interactive TV/mobile narratives are viable, though complex, and can engage loyal, devoted audiences across typical target group demographics by representation of point-of-view; identification by p-o-v and asynchronous interaction central for user content quality!

7. “Interactive TV Narratives: Opportunities, Progress and Challenges” in Accociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) Special Issue on Human-Centered Television among other publications/presentations and international awards (like Banff World Television)!

1. DEFINES!new practices!

2. CREATES!experiments!

3. INVESTIGATES!validity by engaging!real user audiences!

4. SPECIFIES!cultural, technological &!dissemination R&D needs!

5. PRODUCES!applications/practices!

6. INFORMS!about the development of!digital culture -!the stories we tell!

7. REFLECTS!the findings within peer!communities and related!fields, such as computer!sciences, social studies!and drama arts/studies!

Accidental Lovers broadcast structure for a story variation!

enlisting also User Interface (UI) information.!