Examples of non-linear storytelling:
The Global Lives Project is a cross-continental collaboration aimed at building a video library of the human experience online. It started with a grassroots effort to document a day in the life of 10 regular folk around the world who represent the diversity of the world’s population.
havana-miami.tv
Each week, three videos from Havana, three videos from Miami, over three months. Follow everyday life as experienced by six young men and women from each city. Includes a timeline, profiles of people and a searchable graph that sorts videos by tagged topic.
theplaceswelive.com
The Places We Live is a series of stunning 360º photogrpahs and audio stories that take you across continents and into the lives of twenty families living in urban slums.
cityofmemory.org
City of Memory is an urban story map of New York City with stories from people and neighborhoods of the present and the past. Includes curated as well as user-submitted stories.
gdp.nfb.ca
GDP: Measuring the Human Side of the Canadian Economic Crisis is a bilingual project that features an interactive map and timeline embedded with videos, audio slide shows, photos and comments, sortable by theme.
prisonvalley.arte.tv
Prison Valley explores the prison industry and the Colorado community whose economy is based upon it. I haven't checked this one out yet. You have to register to take advantage of all the embedded interactivity and to explore the spaces and characters within the content. Supposedly a dense and richly rewarding media experience with stunning cinema verité video.
justvision.org
The creators of the feature documentary Budrus started a nonprofit to help fund the making of their film and talk about the issues involved. Their plan is to have 5-minute videos that you can pause and link to other videos or what people are saying about it or find more information.
oneocean.cbc.ca
One Ocean takes a more traditional approach where online content acts as a support to an educational documentary tv series. It's a place to learn more about the topic and play games.
Kensington Communications creates and produces television and interactive media. Check out the links to Interactive Projects in the right column. Here are a couple of examples:
The City Sonic project features location-based storytelling and a gaming component built around mobile smartphones. Each short film tells the story of one musician and their shared history with a noted Toronto music venue. You can get bonus information or prizes when accessing pieces on your mobile while you are at specific locations.
Diamond Road Online was launched in conjunction with a TV series about the gem. The site contains a database of over 300 documentary sequences with more than 10 hours of video. It allows users to follow their own interests. You can choose to follow a particular character or a specific theme or let the online recommendation engine tell you a more continuous story. Intelligent software analyzes what you've already seen, combines it with content ratings from other users and then recommends what should be seen next. At any time you can become an editor by creating, commenting on or sharing your own mini-documentaries with the online community. View a demonstration of how Diamond Road Online was constructed and how it works. Uses Web 2.0. Uses collaborative filtering and personal recommendations. Every piece of content is tagged with keywords. The content creator can also tag a sequence as an introductory clip so that it would play before anything else related to that story.
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