This may be of interest to anyone involved in storytelling, whether your platform is filmmaking, social media or gaming, Switchboard and Event with Me are teaming up with Power to the Pixel, to present A New Currency: Multiplatform storytelling and social capital.
The event is free to attend and takes place on 12 October, from 1 – 5pm at mac, hosted by The Producers Forum.
“Social capital” now has a very real value and multiplatform storytelling is increasingly the way to ensure that our projects are contemporary, compelling and wide reaching.
CiB’s Chris Unitt will be on one of the panels of guest speakers, along with Natasha Carlish, Nick Booth, Dave Harte, Julia Higinbottom, Pip & Lisa/Jenny and Helga Henry. They’ll be discussing how their experience in using social capital and multiplatform storytelling has lead to some exciting and innovative projects and new ways of working. The event will also feature a live and recorded web cast from the annual Power to the Pixel conference.
Book your place via their eventbrite page.
Sounds like it could be an interesting event.. but looking at the panel members, are they using the term ‘storytelling’ interchangeably with PR/media/news? Because I think of storytelling as a creative fictional process, as distinct from ‘reporting’. A lot of people/companies refer to enabling others to “tell their stories” when referring to their own experiences, again blurring the lines between actual ‘storytelling’ and more personal blogging/journalism/memoirs etc.
Good points. I find myself on the ‘storytelling’ panel but am more likely to talk about local blogs as forms of alternative media representation. Some of those local blogs choose to develop a kind of narrative based around personal experience (Digbeth is Good would be an example of that) and others utilise more traditional journalistic forms of address but attempt some innovations around that (which is what my blog bournvillevillage.com does). The current discussion around hyperlocal stuff rarely looks at modes of address so I’m hoping this event will make a useful contribution to the discussion.