Handmade Stories is a character based interactive documentary that focuses on craftswomen all over the world.
The first screen you come to is extremely simple, just a looped short clip of a woman doing her craftsmanship with "Handmade Stories" across the middle of the screen. It gives the viewer just the right amount of context - giving them a quick snippet of the content to come while keeping them intrigued.
Slightly further into the interactive documentary, there is a split screen which allows the viewer to hover over the characters name. When they do, a portrait of the character is shown, along with an illustration of a map of the craftswomen's home country. The geographical reference is great as it is not only visually pleasing, but also gives the viewer context of the character in terms of where they fit in the documentary. The use of portraits looks great and was definitely something that inspired us to use a portrait as the first visual of our characters. The use of people from different countries also encouraged us to explore the diversity in our topic, allowing the viewer to learn from many varying cultural points of view.
After clicking on a character, the participant can choose to enter a "discussion" with the craftswoman. The viewer can choose from three different quotations depending on what they want to hear the character talk about. This interactivity inspired us to allow the viewer to ask our characters questions in order to feel as though they themselves are interviewing the person, letting them learn from a more personal experience rather than simply being told the information. This is one of the most important parts that we took from the documentary and largely shaped our interactive documentary's structure.
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