“Writers want to be makers,” Hammer told me, speaking during a sprawling conversation about interactive storytelling at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Hammer pointed to his eclectic Super Deluxe team; many of them musicians and journalists who have transformed into interactive content creators.
This spring, after hosting a workshop with the U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program in collaboration with the Greater Cincinnati World Affairs Council, I’ve been thinking about the increasing accessibility, affordability and availability of digital products and services for media pros.
Embracing art, community, connectivity and interactivity, SCC will reignite the story of the late Cincinnati boxing champion Ezzard ‘Ezz’ Charles around a bronze sculpture in one of Cincinnati’s prominent public spaces.
Sure, I know all about popular book clubs from Oprah to Amazon as well as digital communities like Goodreads. I just feel that book club favorites like The Nightingale or The Book That Matters Most don’t speak to me.
For the past ten months, colleagues Ryan Cayabyab, Sean C. Davis and Jason Snell and I have been diving deep into Cincinnati’s historic brewery cellars in support of an interactive marketing project for the cultural, non-profit Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corp.
Six episodes into the eight-part series, The Night Of continues to release a steady stream of clues, facts and details. For audiences keeping score, the edge-of-the-couch fun comes with tracking the clues that matter with the Red Herrings meant to distract us.