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Summer Stories will bring some cheer, fun, learning and adventure for your little ones and teens
Age: 3-15+ Years
Enjoy the Summer Stories curated by KIIT-IS Library
Age: 3-15+ Years
Enjoy the Summer Stories curated by KIIT-IS Library
KiiT-IS annual summer reading section will present this year: digital story books for the SUMMER break of the new academic session. Here you can access the wonderful world of stories to become avid reader and fluent storyteller. Kids will definitely enjoy during the long, lazy days of the break. These stories can be a springboard for helping them to choose books on topics that inspire their curiosity — So, It makes easy to find great stories in one place.
STORY YOU CAN READ, LISTEN AND VIEW
Interactive Story Telling
1. The Boat
If you want to be blown away with an unconventional storytelling experience, enter the world of The Boat. Complete with howling wind sound effects and text and images that sway and jolt—giving you the feeling of being inside a real refugee boat—this interactive graphic novel allows you to walk a mile in a Vietnamese refugee’s shoes.
It also teaches you a thing or two about masterful storytelling:
First, stories must be crafted in such a way as to seamlessly integrate different medium forms. If done right, viewers forget they’re reading text, listening to sound effects, looking at visuals and scrolling down all at the same time and begin to experience it as a whole. Each form contributes a different and new piece of information and ties in naturally with the rest of elements.
Second, old and new media can be combined to give birth to innovative hybrid forms. Reminiscent of traditional comic books, the story’s animated ink panels—with speech bubbles that appear as the reader scrolls down—contain images that were actually made with real paper, a calligraphy brush and ink.
It also teaches you a thing or two about masterful storytelling:
First, stories must be crafted in such a way as to seamlessly integrate different medium forms. If done right, viewers forget they’re reading text, listening to sound effects, looking at visuals and scrolling down all at the same time and begin to experience it as a whole. Each form contributes a different and new piece of information and ties in naturally with the rest of elements.
Second, old and new media can be combined to give birth to innovative hybrid forms. Reminiscent of traditional comic books, the story’s animated ink panels—with speech bubbles that appear as the reader scrolls down—contain images that were actually made with real paper, a calligraphy brush and ink.
2. The Fallen of World War II
An interactive project made mostly with animated infographics and stunning data visualizations, The Fallen of World War II is both visually compelling and moving.
Although numbers of war casualties on a page hardly move readers nowadays, this documentary does an excellent job of using sophisticated data visualizations to add meaning to these figures and compare them to the human losses of other world conflicts.
If you want to learn more about creating animated infographics that move audiences, then this is a definite must-see.
A key takeaway from watching this short 15-minute piece is that when you place large numbers in a wider context, they become much more significant. Also, the infographics use detailed cut-outs of people to humanize them, frequently zooming in on them throughout the story to remind the viewer that they were more than just numbers.
Although numbers of war casualties on a page hardly move readers nowadays, this documentary does an excellent job of using sophisticated data visualizations to add meaning to these figures and compare them to the human losses of other world conflicts.
If you want to learn more about creating animated infographics that move audiences, then this is a definite must-see.
A key takeaway from watching this short 15-minute piece is that when you place large numbers in a wider context, they become much more significant. Also, the infographics use detailed cut-outs of people to humanize them, frequently zooming in on them throughout the story to remind the viewer that they were more than just numbers.
3. Rebuilding Haiti
unique combination of interactive story, longform journalism and online game, Rebuilding Haiti is groundbreaking in its coverage of the tragic aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.
By allowing the reader to make choices concerning the way authorities will rebuild the country, the project successfully involves the audience in the convoluted intricacies of social problems such as famine, homelessness and poverty.
The message? Reality is much messier than we think.
Although some might balk at the idea of turning a complex, tragic issue into a game, the creators insist that games are just another tool to communicate ideas and are not necessarily limited to trivial matters.
The storytelling lesson here is that the old boundaries regarding storytelling mediums have been completely blurred. Bottom-line: Anything goes as long as it gets the point across.
By allowing the reader to make choices concerning the way authorities will rebuild the country, the project successfully involves the audience in the convoluted intricacies of social problems such as famine, homelessness and poverty.
The message? Reality is much messier than we think.
Although some might balk at the idea of turning a complex, tragic issue into a game, the creators insist that games are just another tool to communicate ideas and are not necessarily limited to trivial matters.
The storytelling lesson here is that the old boundaries regarding storytelling mediums have been completely blurred. Bottom-line: Anything goes as long as it gets the point across.
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