12 categories of digital storytelling formats
Tristan Ferne, BBC,Tristan Ferne, with the BBC’s R&D team, sums up 12 types of digital storytelling formats, with examples for each. Specifically covered are:
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Short & vertical video; often with captions, pioneered by AJ+ and NowThis
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Horizontal *Stories; swipeable cards like Snapchat Stories and its clones
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Longform scrollytelling; evolved from the original NY Times Snowfall
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Structured news; like the original Circa or the reusable cards at Vox.com
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Live blogs; frequently used for big events
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Listicles; like Buzzfeed
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Newsletters and briefings; which seem to be on trend right now
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Timelines; which I expected to be more common
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Bots and chat; from the chat-styled Qz app to the many attempts to deliver news within chat apps
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Personalised; which typically is used to filter the choice of stories, rather than the story itself
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Data visualisation; from graphs to interactives
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VR and AR