Cross Media Café - Immersive Storytelling

__How do you use different types of media to tell a story? Today’s media maker can use lots of different channels to tell his story. That is why Media Perspectives and Sound and Vision are organizing a Cross Media Café on 12 March where eight media makers will give a talk. They use these opportunities in an innovative way. With presentations from for example Halbe-Piter Claus (ClausMedia) about Jennifer to the max and Paul de Haas (Johnny Wonder) about the first Dutch WhatsApp thriller ‘Ontspoord’. __

Program 2 pm – 5 pm

● Paul de Haas, Lead Creative Johnny Wonder, about ‘’Ontspoord’’, the first Dutch WhatsApp thriller launched by NS. This thriller consisted of about 210 messages (text, photos and videos) that were shared over the course of a week. During the morning rush hour on Monday 28 January, the first messages from Ontspoord came in. In between messages from family, friends or coworkers, readers got to know the different characters. In the following week, a breathtaking manhunt unfolded...
● Halbe-Piter Claus, Director and producer ClausMedia, about Jennifer to the max. This transmedia drama series was made for Omrop Fryslân in collaboration with the Dutch Association for Mental Health and Addiction Care and the Municipal Health Services and its target audience is 3000 first year secondary school students in Friesland. The project consists of a book (Sex to the Max), interactive YouTube series with an active WhatsApp function, lesson plan, podcast for parents and two Instagram accounts. It’s entirely told in first person. How is this story told and what is the target audience’s reaction?
Dr. Yael de Haan, Lector Crossmedia Quality Journalism at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, is leading a two-year research project into Immersive Journalism and the Engaged Audience. She is working on this project with researchers from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Vienna and journalists from KRO-NCRV, VPRO, NOS, NTR and the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision. She uses interesting examples to explain what “immersive journalism” is, and if the productions that have been made so far actually are immersive.
● Peter Kortenhoeven is the founder of VR studio Pillow’s Willow and the developer of EXODUS BURNED. Exodus Burned is a virtual reality game in which different people can play against each other. It’s the first VR game to show the entire body, which allows players and viewers to get into the story together in a new way.
● Klasien van de Zandschulp is an interactive designer. Her designs connect stories online and offline with multi-sensory interactions or unexpected meetings. The Project EAT | TECH | KITCHEN shows how we consume our daily technology, from interactive kitchen rituals to dinner parties. The audience will talk to the Futurist Bot-Chef, and then receives a personal recipe to prepare in the ‘smart’ kitchen. The project won the IDFA Doclab Immersive Non-Fiction award.
● Ties Joosten is a journalist for FMT and the former editor-in-chief of Blendle. He and Inge Janse developed the Crash Course Sustainability for Vrij Nederland, a unique combination of podcast, comic, and quiz. He uses the production to show which choices were made and how they worked out.

From 5 pm drinks and networking.

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