Month: May 2019

27 May 2019
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Growing list of recent and classic interactive multimedia stories by international news agencies, media organisations, platforms, ngo’s, videographers, designers, photographers and artists (work in progress).

The list contains classic examples of interactive games like FortMcMoney, the mother of all photo slide shows ‘1 in 8 million’ by New York Times and more recent well crafted photo series like Urban Quilombo and Gaza Surf Club.

It serves as inspiration for my work as freelance multimedia maker when concepting and developing interactive, video and photography stories. Hope it serves you too.

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In-game photography by Alan Butler

27 May 2019
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12-12-2018
So there’s photography. And there’s in-game photography. Until recently it was an unknown genre to me. At a talk of a photo curator of the FOAM photography museum in Amsterdam the name Alan Butler came up. His work is pretty amazing. Instead of stealing cars and raping women, Butler takes up the role of photojournalist in Grand Theft Auto, the game.

Butler uses the photographic conventions of a typical photojournalists. There’s one thing he doesn’t use, physically that is, which is a camera. Despite, he is capable of creating a photographic reportage of poverty and the poor, who are programmed in the game. ‘Down and Out in Los Santos’ is an alienating experience.


Down and Out in Los Santos is series of photographs that are created by exploiting a smartphone camera feature within the video game Grand Theft Auto V by Alan Butler




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17 May 2019
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Interactive projects by Michiel Bles

17 May 2019
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Story first, medium later. That’s my philosophy when working on web-based stories. Online storytelling allows for true engagement. Find out which medium works best for your story and start building a multimedia longscroll, an interactive photo series, a photo and audio slideshow, a 360, or an interactive storymap.

On this page you find the interactive, multimedia, crossmedia and other hybrid stories I made for my clients in non-profit, media and the creative sector.

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Interactive mobile video story on IDAHOT 2019

17 May 2019
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Interactive video tool for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs


Project info: In order to pay tribute to the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked me to come up with an idea to create a more compelling piece than the usual video compilation of short statements by MoFA colleagues.

I developed the concept for this interactive, mobile-first video publication, using the Slices-tool.

I remotely briefed MoFa colleagues in the field to have their portrait taken on the streets and record a few audio statements about what it means for them to commemorate IDAHOT 2019.

The production is shared in the countries the ministry is active.


Client: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 
Media: Video, web
 
My role: Concepting, video and audio editing, animation and interaction design
 
Languages: Dutch and English
 
Watch the interactive IDAHOT story, mobile first!

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Photo report S-H-O-W dataviz conference

5 May 2019
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Corporate event photography at the S-H-O-W data visualisation conference in Utrecht 2019

Project info: Photo report of a data visualisation conference in Utrecht in 2019 organised by data visualisation training agency Graphic Hunters. The international conference was held in the ‘Anatomiegebouw’ in Utrecht, a former anatomic lab. The pictures I made were used by the client on social media and website.
 
Client: Graphic Hunters
 
Media: Photography
 
Languages: –

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Climbing El Capitan without ropes. But with a 360 view.

2 May 2019
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02-05-2019
Watching this on a cinema screen was mind-blowing, nerve-wrecking, exhausting, and so on. Watching Alex Honnold free soloing El Capitan in 360 creates a new dimension to this story. Vertigo galore. Excellent video production by National Geography following the world’s most famous solo climber (yes, that means no ropes) on his way to the top of El Cap. Doing the virtually impossible.

Spoiler alert: he makes it alive and well. By using 360 technology NG let’s you somehow experience it in a very immersive manner. For the obvious reasons the production won a Webby Award. Check the video below. But don’t look down too much.

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