Project alligator | gegenkrieg

project update

the original story, building a social creative network / different storytellers acting out eachother s ideas ran into a couple of problems.

first of all i felt the necessity of a common, maybe even more noble theme and purpose to my story / project, a clear story frame.
second problem: the participation of thirds and "spectators" was gaining value and adding to a stottering / stagnating storyline.



in cooperation with one of my team mates from the module (truth and poetry) Christian Fischer and i came up with the idea of a commen story frame in which the both of us could tell our individual take on things / different views and perspectives on a commen topic.

this is where project alligator turned into "gegenkrieg" or as  this is my personal developement and process page; "Project alligator: Gegenkrieg" (gegenkrieg - counter war (don t mention the war)



the story would take place on two different planes:

first plane: the virtual ( different storytellers with each of them/us using different storys perspectives edited together or linked together to tell a non linear /poetic truth
second plane the analog ( actionist absurd scenes being acted out by people we meet / asked to participate with and ontop of this a urban action / game ( "capture the flag" - concept by Christian Fischer- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1487032131508520/ )



assets:  a commen idea pool / action platform ( facebook link ) to exchange idea s and footage (still secret )

second step ( we need a showcase common platform - still work in progress )



interview summary to discribe my field of action and intent.

(Project Alligator: Gegenkrieg ( theo /christian/ samuel / evtl. lukas ))

Who am i : 

 i could be anybody and i would be telling the story from this perspective. a person or group spreading anonymous information about the absurd war,  a citizen finding himself in a absurd war situation somebody from the streets getting involved and having to run for his life,  somebody  in a chicken suit dealing out orders, a guy with the infaltable alligator instead of a gun, somebody whos lying dead in the street in a absurd situration, Somebody documenting these strange experiences in this absurd war, an anonymous creditable (gegenkrieg platform) information source (BBC /any newsagency) portraying a story and whats going on in this absurd war.

Whats the story about;

Ist about this strange war that is going on which is  completly absurd. Nobody knows why its being fought, between whom the war is going on and what it is about.

The story is about the absurdity of believing economical,  individual, political, generalsocial  interests based persuations ( believing a political body who empowers a captain figure for example, with authority whos orders are to be followed and that it is a war indeed. The idea war and violence are a solution for war and violence in general about belief, persuations and the absurdity of everything we (the individual and as such socieity) takes as a basis for ist beliefs and actions and everything we take for granted and percieve as normal (what is ridiculous?)

set of criteria: (work in progress)

-a unclear narrative (things seem to happen out of no apparant reason)
-the protagonists give no indication of their motivation, and seem to be stuck in the storyworld forever
-there is no clear ending
-factions seem to shift dissolve and rebuild

Who s telling the story?

The story is being told by 3 or 4 storytellers. Each of us has his/her own perspektive and story to tell, each of us could be anybody in this strange war / indivdual story s being told

My perspektive

Several ideas to that:

Like with other complex situations (the war in syria, the egyptian revolution the fukushima catastrophe, the Crimean conflict) the "reader"  is confronted by the story from several sources (social media, news, journalists, information on different platforms) leading to the awareness of  a situation being taking place and a first reaction to this ( awe, fear, any opinion)

From this perspektive i thought it would be interesting to use a random chaotic mix of Different perspectives.  spreading different points of view and different storyangles of information and situations to build up a story kosmos.

Who am i adressing

My audience is concient humanity / anybody involved in social media

(to create awareness of the absurdity of thought and persuation: war)

How i intend to reach my audience

By using a virtual platform : social media, youtube, a collection ore link system through the different perspectives in the story, video and photographic material telling a story.  And by using the 4 storytellers to create a multi perspektive non linear poetic/random storyline to create the idea of this complex absurd situation / war. Simultaneously we intend to use people  as we act out different scenes, and ask them to participate and by doing so, hope to create a creative pool of material /statement against absurdity (absurd war)

Last but not least a urban common experience, organising a game (catch the flag) to create footage of this absurd war, at the same time create an audience and awereness about the absurdity of war.
Besides the participants and ausdience build up through social media  the audience which comes along by building up a project / exhibition to tell our story in the field of HSLU project modules would be aware of this "gegenkrieg" aswell.

The place where the story takes place / and how the story will be told

The story will be told digital and analog ( eventually as a closed story in lucern / europe, maybe as an ongoing event, making a global statement by acting out / gathering and sharing ideas on how the  absurd war looks like, a creative statement against "war" and the absurdity of  human interaction information kulture /systems leading to absurd actions: for example war)

Analogue: by participating in playing out absurd war szenes and by a common urban „game“ experience ( creating room to discuss, building connections a common experience)

Virtual: By editing and putting together the 4 storytellers perspective which would be a group descision: using a stand alone promotional video, a or different youtube chanels, a "thinglink" interactive picture/ picture s system, linked social media output, different information sources put together via information gathering platforms (thinglink, storyfie etc) maybe by making a single "end" video of the story or by posing as a news agency /platform displaying / putting together the different absurd war symtom scenes, or use interactive video to link up video material /video with photography and exhange different content to build story loops and a linked video structure

The exact format will be decided by the different material and on what the 4 storytellers intend to use to put together their story.

Maybe there will be an starting information ( a war scene / singele schocking photograph / audio statement (cry for help)

a First dramatic sign of absurd war / Document of the absurd war ( the urban war game / catch the flag) and to whom is interested, can click through or to the corresponding format / plattform of each of the 4 storytellers together a mix which tells  a comlex situation by its symptoms and by doing so leading to a / the bigger picture so to say in differetn single/ multible storys /information sources

testing platforms for group / individual storyboard

the knightlab free app to make maps to interactive a multimedia storytelling platform:
http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/storymapjs/latest/embed/?url=https://www.googledrive.com/host/0B5kMRFtlEz3AZ21Na1pIcFdQZVE/published.json

also interesting: using linkthing to make a portrait with interview:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/interactive-apps-and-tools-for-the-mobile-multimedia-journalist/s2/a556586/

linkthing structure: http://www.thinglink.com/scene/515647272470446082