Novelist Phillip Pullman once said, “after nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
Immersive Storytelling
Interactive filmmaking is both an aesthetic and technological challenge, since the audience is an active participant in creating the narrative. Verdugo and colleagues note that the medium has a lot of potential, when the audience can find alternative stories.
In 2017, at the acclaimed Tribeca and Cannes film festivals, writer Alex Vlack alongside directors Alon Benari and Tal Zubalsky debuted their short film, Broken Night.
Broken Night takes viewers on a psychological journey to uncover the truth of what transpired in a woman’s past.
Editors used interactive video software from Eko Studios to affect, control, and influence thenarrative. The film takes VR to a new level of immersion and engagement: viewers simply turn their heads to the left or right to affect what happens in the story.
Research Kristen Johnson writes that one of the challenges is to offer interactive choices that don't distract from a sense immersion in the story. Broken Night used challenge-based immersion , where viewers are focused on discovering the narrative content through their interactions.
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