Touching Stories – Interactive Films for iPad

“Touching Stories” – Behind The Scenes from Tool of North America on Vimeo.

Tool of North America are doing some very cool things with interactive video, like their new Touching Stories iPad app.

By touching, shaking and turning your iPad, you can navigate, unlock and reveal unexpected variations in each of these four “Touching Stories.” Shot by five different directors—and contained in one single app—these interactive, live-action, short stories evolve storytelling in ways that have never been done before on the iPad.

The iPad’s big touch screen is a much more intuitive medium for a hypervideo interactive story than a mouse or trackpad.

Read more about the individual film stories on Tool’s blog, and download the app at the App Store.

Step Right Up! iPad’s amazing secret movie distribution tool

Some things seem so obvious that you can’t believe they’re the subject of breathless feature pieces speculating about futuristic technology.

The iPad as an indie movie distribution tool, for instance. It’s all about the apps, right?

There’s an article today in The L Magazine, a NY events & culture mag, about how Behind The Scenes Of Total Hell will be the first indie movie released as an app for the iPad this summer, after selling literally dozens of copies on the iPhone.

Total Hell has used a Silicon Valley app developer called Stonehenge Productions, who specialise in getting indie films into the iTunes store and turning them into Apps.

The article weighs up the pros and cons of distributing via Apple apps and some other proprietary storefronts like Netflix and iTunes.
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