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No commentsInanimate Alice - iStori.es
An award-winning digital novel written by De Montfort University’s Reader in Creative Writing and New Media is to help school children around the UK create their own multimedia stories.
Kate Pullinger writes the pioneering Inanimate Alice interactive story which is available free of charge online and has just launched the latest episode called ‘Hometown’. See: http://www.inanimatealice.com
The UK government body, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, has licensed a software tool, iStori.es, which Kate and her colleagues developed to help children write their own multimedia stories.
iStories is available to schools from https://secure.ssatrust.org.uk/eshop/default.aspx?mcid=25&scid=46
Kate said: “iStories is innovative and very simple to use. It’s a digital literacy tool which allows students to combine music, pictures and texts to create their own stories. Many sound and picture resources are supplied and others can easily be imported. It can be used in any story telling context.”
An education pack has also been created by De Montfort University’s (DMU) New Media Researcher, Jess Laccetti, to accompany the series. Educators can download this free resource at http://www.inanimatealice.com/education .
Inanimate Alice is written and directed by writer Kate, who as well as writing novels and short stories teaches for the pioneering online Masters degree in Creative Writing and New Media at DMU, and digital artist Chris Joseph, Digital Writer in Residence at DMU’s Institute of Creative Technologies. It is a series of multimedia, interactive episodes which use a combination of text, sound, images, and games as Alice takes readers/players on a journey through her life from the age of eight through to her twenties.
Alice becomes a games animator; a creator of characters for the most successful games company in the world. The episodes become increasingly interactive and game-like, reflecting Alice’s own developing skills as a game designer and animator.
As well as other awards, Inanimate Alice was recently nominated in the category of Interactive Productions at the 2008 Learning On Screen awards, which are given each year by BUFVC, the British Universities Film and Video Council. It was the only independent production in that category - every single other production nominated was an in-house BBC production.
Inanimate Alice is also being showcased in a range of European languages on a new EU website to promote intercultural dialogue (http://www.interculturaldialogue2008.eu) as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
ENDS
Notes for Editors:
For further information or to arrange an interview with Kate Pullinger please contact De Montfort University Press Office 0116 2577021.
2008: Man With A Movie Camera
This is a version of Perry Bard’s collaborative video project, which remakes Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera with user-contributed footage. I have a couple of shots included so far.
See http://dziga.perrybard.net or my previous post for more information about the project and how to submit footage.
Update July 2008:
The project won Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category for Ars Electronica, www.aec.at/en/prix/
The project will be presented on July 27 at ISEA 2008 in Singapore www.isea2008singapore.org.
The website now lists all past presentations, the site also exists in French and Spanish, Chinese is coming and more.
The entire film is now on youtube in 7 parts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hOfo1N_B0 (this version is the July 5 download).
Upcoming in October are screenings in Beijing Shanghai Moscow Ekatrinburg and other venues to be confirmed.
Update December 2007:
photos of the project at
- Bigger Picture Commission Screenings, Norwich, UK for Aurora Festival, 10 November 2007
- Urban Screens Conference, Manchester, UK, 11 - 14 October 2007
are up at www.flickr.com/photos/15718313@N04/2040386988
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No commentsInanimate Alice, Episode 4: Hometown
As we left Moscow on that plane I had no idea where we were going. It turns out my Mum and Dad had no idea either. We moved around. We stayed with friends. It took a while but finally we landed on our feet.
Sort of.
“And now I am going to die!” Attempting to impress my friends on the way home from school, I climb a rickety staircase outside an abandoned factory.
When it collapses beneath me, I hang on by my fingernails and haul myself up onto a ledge. But then I get stuck. There’s no way down. And I can’t go up. The only way out is through the scary factory, half-demolished and very dangerous. Can you help me? Can you find the way out?
My friends (I have friends now - yeah!!)love the stories I create; they want to tell their own, so I came up with a simple little tool to help them. It’s called iStori.es - all you have to do is load up your photos, add some words, music and sound effects and BOOM! you have your own interactive story….in minutes.
If you’re a student, go tell your teacher to check out http://www.iStori.es - it’s very educational! Hehe…
See you in Hometown, Episode 4 on http://www.inanimatealice.com .
Yours - Alice
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First reviews:
“Inanimate Alice serves as both entertainment and a peek into the future of literature as a fusion of multimedia technologies. The haunting images and accompanying music and text weave a remarkably gripping tale that must be experienced to be believed… Get ready for thirty minutes of multimedia bliss.” ( Jay is Games )
“Episode 4 of the super-stylish interactive story Inanimate Alice is out now. If you’ve never experienced it, interactive fiction is part story, part game. I’ve reported on Alice before because I think it’s unique and really beautiful. (Wait till you hear the music. I’m so into it. It’s like the soundtrack for a spooky-cool movie…)” ( Books, Inq. )
“Alice tells her story through moving snapshots, journaled words and haunting music… Alice is beautiful in that we start to forget that it’s a just a game and we began to connect with her, all her fears and hopes, and her joy too.” ( The Cafe in the Woods )
“I’ve just experienced the just-released “Episode 4: Hometown” of the haunting multimedia-interactive story, Inanimate Alice and can say that it is just as enjoyable and unique as the previous three.” ( educating alice )
“Inanimate Alice is a Learning Gem… With the release of Inanimate Alice Episode 4 ‘Hometown’ I am even more convinced that this type of multimedia story is the future of e-reading.” ( Learning Gems )
“Have you caught up with Inanimate Alice yet? It is digital storytelling at its most delicious.” ( CMIS Evaluation Fiction Focus )
No commentsInanimate Alice in the Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal magazine
A great essay about Alice by Ruth Page in the CIAC magazine ( http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/ ), including screenshots from throughout the series including the forthcoming Episode 4.
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