The Next Generation of Children’s Storytelling: Interactive Enhanced eBooks

Much like the generations of adults that have come before me, I was raised on traditional print-based storybooks at bedtime. The tradition of reading children’s books has crossed the thresholds of economic, geographic, and social barriers across the world for countless years. It is easy to say that most children have been read a story from a picture book at some point within their early development.

However, unlike the older generations, a new and exciting trend in storytelling has emerged into the lives of the newest generation of readers. Today’s children have been born into a technological world, where they have developed an innate understanding of technology and digital devices from the time they could hold them on their own.  The time of the enhanced interactive eBook is here, and with it come a unique set of educational and interactive-based problems. (Read On)

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Creating the magic, one storyboard panel at a time.

There is always a battle going on in every field of study of who has the most important job. Like in any field, the film and entertainment industry is no exception. For the longest time, I really thought the only people that were part of a film were the actors (if they looked good) and the director (if there were pictures of them behind the camera). As time has gone on however, I have learned that this is not the case. There are hundreds of individuals who are part of the film making process, be it craft services, 1^st AD, Casting Director, Gaffer, Key Grip or the Best Boy. They are the unseen heroes that help make the films, television shows, shorts, and commercials that we have come to know and love a reality. I really want to help shed some light into one such position that I have found most intriguing yet is hardly ever mentioned in the production of animated and live action films. A job which merges my two greatest loves, art and story.

Its a job that lies within the heart of the film, where both a passion for art and an immense love for storytelling collide. Meet the storyboard artist; an individual with a job so important that he has the ability to make or break a film.