StoryCatcher

Film is a common medium that people use to tell stories. The traditional way of the theater-based film watching experiences has been constantly changed with the constant change of the technology. Interactive storytelling change the authorship of the story content in film. It transfer the passive audience into active storymaker. Besides, a viewer have the control of what is the next in order to create his own story. I also believe interactive storytelling can provide a more intriging viewer's experience since there is a physical movement get involved. I would like to bring an inspirational tool to the viewer to create a story, like an author and explore how the technology can provide viewers a different film- watching experience by being able to have actual communications with the author and other audience through the interactive narrative.

I am always interested in the relationship between the audience and the film, and the traditional way of screen-based viewing experiencce is still the majority. Filmmakers still have the most control of how he or she want to tell the story; as audience, they still in the passive role as passive viewers. With the constant change of the technology, we might be able to give the viewers more control in terms of storytelling. With StoryCatcher, viewers can rearrange the sequence of the movie by rearranging the physical objects and tell his or her own story.

Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa

All kinds of audience are welcome

StoryCatcher is an installation. When people walk in, they can choose 5 objects from the box next to the installation piece and put them in the assigned grids. When the five grids are filled with the objects, the movie sequence will start to play. Viewers can change any movie sequece by changeing the physical objects anytime.After replacing new objects, it will start with the new sequence of the video. There will be a audio recording qeuipment so viewers can share their own stories with other viewers also have experienced the StoryCatcher.

There are two interfaces:
1. computer interface which I saved 7 video clips
2. physical interface. There are 7 physical objects and each object was assigned to one individual video clip. There are grids and the viewer choose 5 objects out of 7 and place on the grid with his or her own order. The max/jitter will detacts the order of the objects in order to play the right sequences of the video. The viewer records his or her own personal story during the projection of the video.

How to make a short interesting story is a big challenge for me and during making this projects I;ve learnt all kinds of storytelling skills.