As well as the growing army of folks bowing down to the idea of a edutainment and interactive learning, there are sticklers in the mud who hate it bad. The idea this article pushes forward is that no matter the interactivity, no matter the amount of colour sound or audio visual entertainment, the solid background and ultimate success factor of an application or paper based book is the narrative, and characters supporting it.
Great storytelling and
strong characters are fundamental elements for any good story regardless of
media and delivery, and have direct effect to the success of said product,
according to an article published on the Guardian by Stuart Pledge. This
article details interactive storytelling and applications are not a
revolutionary jump forward, just a new take on an old classic, and the
essentials and criteria remain the same, whether it be paper based,
interactive, film and animation or through an application on your iPad.
Linked to Pledge’s
(2012) recipe for success, are the ideas of romanticizing the past and the
golden childhood, and romanticizing the future. There will always be people who
remain adverse to change and the progression of technology and its convergence
with everyday life. (I’ve gotta admit, I’m badly opposed to the idea of 3
Dimensional TV. It’s fucking ridiculous!) This is not a new thing directly
related with iPads, or kids getting their hands on technology, but an age old
obstacle where only the immediate criteria change. Before iPads and smartphones
and interactive pop up books, or stories there was the ‘golden age’ the era
parents now refer to, in which it was television that was corrupting childhoods
and making for a toxic time. The idea of radio being drowned out by an image
making box, that people then were afraid to let into their homes and adopt
being utterly dreadful.
And long long before
then (something I found real interesting interesting)
Long
Long
Long
Long before then..
the mad stupid idea
that writing things down would render memory obselete. A guy in stupid BC went
on about how getting stuff out on paper would have a huge detrimental effect on
society, people would lose their memory because they no longer needed to use
it. Letters being thought of as a drug for memory and wisdom. Bit earlier than
that, people hraged against women reading, incase it led them to be real
dissatisfied with their probably crummy lives, and think about running away !
point being, people are scared of change, and throughout my research project
ima look at interactive media being detrimental to kids, through studies and
what not, and come back to this point..theres a real big can of interactive pop
up book worms ready to be busted open.
PLEDGE, S., 2012. The
best children’s apps are about great storytelling and strong characters [online].
Guardian. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/sep/25/best-childrens-apps-storytelling
[accessed 23rd October 2012].
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