Interactive Dramaturgies New Approaches in Multimedia Content and Design

• Other Authors: Hagebölling, Heide (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2004
• Series: X.media.publishing.
• Subjects: Interactive multimedia > Authoring programs; Drama > Technique > Computer programs; Digital media
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• Item Description: "A collection of original contributions by internationally renowned multimedia authors, designers, and artists outline design concepts and strategies. Outstanding case studies and media projects are analyzed, covering a broad range of both applications and genres: culture, art, and education; museums and exhibitions; film, TV, games, and entertainment; augmented reality and hybrid environments. Interactive Dramaturgies go beyond the well established term of interactive storytelling. They carefully define and create the rules of altered roles and required competences of both authors and users in new communicational setting. The publication provides designers, authors, artists, theoreticians, media critics, and students interested in interactive media with new approaches and views in multimedia content and design."--Jacket.
• Physical Description: xiv, 260 pages illustrations (some color) 25 cm
• ISBN: 9783642622311

Using numerous illustrations and case studies, the author maps out the creative process involved in producing interactive media, such as CD-ROM productions and network applications. Looking at concrete outstanding examples, various contributions by international multimedia authors, designers, and artists shed light on the role and function of interactive media in the context of exhibitions, museums, cultural learning, entertainment, film, and television. The publication explores methods and strategies of interactive dramaturgy that go beyond interactive storytelling. The emphasis is on new modes of dramaturgy, where the user is actively involved, cooperation among users is supported, and repeated visits are motivated.