Zapdramatic's Michael Gibson teamed up with PTV productions to write and co-direct with Nicolas Jolliet and producer Katie McKenna a simulation on the immediate aftermath of the Haiti earthquake from three points of view.
...The documentary crew returned to Canada with over two hundred hours of material. My job was to create an interactive simulation that revealed the complex interdependencies of a Survivor, Journalist and Aid Worker. The footage contained so much chaos and confusion that we needed a few recurring characters and a story to make sense of it. The challenge was not only how to create a good story but also how to permit user interactivity without plunging the narrative back into chaos...
Read Michael Gibson's paper on the writing process here.
Michael Gibson presented his paper on the writing process at the International Conference on Interactive Story-telling in Edinburgh.
The paper was published by http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1u3w33w2t68n7h2/
