Netflix customers will soon be able to enjoy Netflix Interactive Storytelling as a new kind of experience that transforms viewers into directors of their own TV adventures.
This will be interesting for viewers and for content creators who will now have to make alternate endings and paths for their characters to take. It seems to move viewers to the more active role that video game players take in deciding which directive to follow, or influence, the narrative.
Puss In Book: Trapped In An Epic Tale Trailer
Story choices can be selected on tv with the remote or directly on touch screens.
And for those that can't deal with the randomness of life, let alone choose your own adventures, full decision trees are available online so adults can help "guide" children in their choices to get to the end of the story.
Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile is another title that Netflix is supporting in this format.
stop-mo from Stoopid Buddy Studios (Robot Chicken) and American Greetings Entertainment (Strawberry Shortcake)
It's an "experiment", according to Netflix, and is currently only available on "some modern smart TVs, game consoles, iOS devices, and Roku devices" but "won’t be available on the web, Apple TV, Chromecast, or Android devices". So I won't be able to test it. Boo!
Depending on your choices, Puss in Boots is 18 to 39 minutes long.
(I watched the default choices version on Netflix for web viewers. It was good! At 20 minutes long, I missed half of the possible storylines. The whole viewing tree may be "released" on youtube at some point.)
Fisher says her work began with one overarching question: what stories can we tell at Netflix that can’t be told elsewhere? “Netflix is an interactive device ecosystem,” she says. “We’re not beholden to terrestrial television. We’re not beholden to linear schedules.”
Where will this all lead? I read an analysis of women's underwear in the 20th century that said when children stopped being strapped into girdles and restrictive underwear they grew up to be adults who expected the same level of comfort. Hence the revolution in cotton and stretch fabrics that led to the abandonment of heavy shapewear in the 60s and 70s. If children today grow up getting to choose their own way through the story, they will one day be adults who will not be content to be force fed narratives like we are today. Imagine watching a sprawling epic like Game of Thrones and getting to focus on only one character's storyline or skipping through tedious "character building" moments to only watch the battles?
Where will this all lead? I read an analysis of women's underwear in the 20th century that said when children stopped being strapped into girdles and restrictive underwear they grew up to be adults who expected the same level of comfort. Hence the revolution in cotton and stretch fabrics that led to the abandonment of heavy shapewear in the 60s and 70s. If children today grow up getting to choose their own way through the story, they will one day be adults who will not be content to be force fed narratives like we are today. Imagine watching a sprawling epic like Game of Thrones and getting to focus on only one character's storyline or skipping through tedious "character building" moments to only watch the battles?
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