Wednesday, December 17, 2003
The Dark House on the web
Radio 4's interactive drama is available on the web; at 12 stages in the presentation, you can interact with it to change the perspective the story is told from.
The original radio broadcast received over two thousand votes - which is pretty good for a ground-breaking interactive radio drama, but if we assume that those that interacted with it did so on 1/3 of the possible choice points, we have about 800 people participating. But, since radio is quite a passive medium (as commented on earlier) this is still a reasonable showing for first time out.
Will it catch on? who knows.
Was it worth doing? Certainly - the BBC should be at the front of new initiatives and doing it has to be at least as important as broadcasting it.
Interestingly, it could be that the real future for this approach is in blended media, since the experience over the internet is much more varied and fresher than a simple reply of the original - this could give the production a much longer shelf-life than a conventional broadcast.
Radio 4's interactive drama is available on the web; at 12 stages in the presentation, you can interact with it to change the perspective the story is told from.
The original radio broadcast received over two thousand votes - which is pretty good for a ground-breaking interactive radio drama, but if we assume that those that interacted with it did so on 1/3 of the possible choice points, we have about 800 people participating. But, since radio is quite a passive medium (as commented on earlier) this is still a reasonable showing for first time out.
Will it catch on? who knows.
Was it worth doing? Certainly - the BBC should be at the front of new initiatives and doing it has to be at least as important as broadcasting it.
Interestingly, it could be that the real future for this approach is in blended media, since the experience over the internet is much more varied and fresher than a simple reply of the original - this could give the production a much longer shelf-life than a conventional broadcast.
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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