“Unlocking the Secrets of Interactive Storytelling: Gavin Michael Booth Reveals How to Captivate Audiences in Episode 533 of SYS Podcast!”
Gavin Michael Booth
It was very hands off, uh, more suggestions than, than full on notes, you know, would read things. What about this? What about this? And we just feel very in sync with what’s trying to be done. A lot of the notes would come from the purpose of, I needed to understand how they were going to build up the app, how the episode, how the contest side of things, how they saw that working. So a lot of the notes and exchanges were me making sure that I had enough things planted in each episode. Uh, and for the sort of bonus content that’s out there that it, that it would work for the system. I didn’t, I couldn’t just autonomously write, uh, the story exactly the way that I would want, cause it had to work within this, this system that they’re building, but even then there’s flexibility with season one, there’s, there’s a, there’s a huge learning curve for all of us, uh, that season two, I’m sure we’ll be able to improve and, and, and, and elevate, but it’s been a really great working experience in relationship. No, no sort of hard notes of like, this can’t stay. This has to go. I hate this move this, uh, you know, it it’s everybody at reveal at the platform. They, they have a good grasp of vision and how they want to do things different. So, things on this project where I was like, Hey, what if we cast an actor that can actually sing and then I’ll get my friend who was a hit songwriter to, to write a song and we’ll record it and then we can use it in this way. And this way, and, and most of the time you’re going to get, be met with resistance of like, I don’t know, that sounds expensive. And like, that’s just too much work. Let’s stick to this. And in this case, they’re just like, that sounds amazing. How can we do that? If we can do it, let’s do it. Let’s find a way to make it happen. Uh, kind of the opposite experience of what you typically gets, in the note giving scenario, I always compare it cause I, being Canadian, you apply for a lot of grant funding, telephone, Canada, Ontario creates, and sometimes the note givers there feel less creative. It feels sort of like if you had to go to the DMV and have to get notes from the person that’s in charge of renewing your license or giving you a road test.
