Proposal One Spark berlin 2014

1. ISLANDS OF AWE
ONE SPARK BERLIN 2014
Digital storytelling for kids and
everybody young at heart

2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
ISLANDS OF AWE is a website for kids, parents and
all story lovers. These are some examples of the crazy
monsters, awesome superheroes and magic islands
that will populate the screen.

3. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
• A superhero will travel from island to island and meet
all sorts of monsters and friends. They are
reinterpretations of archetypal story characters, which
allows for recognition and stimulates the fantasy of the
viewer.
• The imagery is made up of still images and short
animations without text to allow the viewer to fill in
parts of the story and stimulate her/his imagination.
• The sequence of the islands will be different every visit,
so that each time a new story can be experienced with
familiar characters.

4. WHY THIS PROJECT
• This project promotes an interactive way of storytelling: Islands of
Awe means to set the stage, allowing the imagination of the viewer
to co-create.
• Co-creation, user generated content, is more than ever part of the
world we live in (Soundcloud, Youtube, etc.).
• Story telling is an important way of communicating. It's what brings
people together, allows to share values, ideas and information.
• It helps parents and kids to create stories of their own that they
share exclusively through their imagination.
• This project stimulates creative thinking and freedom of expression,
imagination without boundaries, mind mapping, improvising.
• It is an artistic approach to visual storytelling and allows children an
alternate view of how stories are told and characters created.
• The authors are all established professionals in their respective
fields, with extensive experience in creating multi media projects.

5. WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
• a Swiss photographer michaelsieber.com
• an American composer and musician ericnotasound.tumblr.com
• an Italian architect living gg-loop.com
• a German artist annikakappner.com
• an Italian illustrator and animator amaliaillustrazioni.blogspot.ita
• a Dutch Carribean graphic designer cloviswieske.com
We live in Berlin, Thun CH, Amsterdam, the South of Italy and in Lima, Peru.
We got together to bring fantasy and imagination back to live and particularly to
the screens of i-pads, laptops and the hearts of kids and their parents. And we
are having a lot of fun inventing the stories and the magic we dreamt of as kids.

6. FUNDING
• We developed the concept, a story board and produced part of the
content to create a story online.
• Now we need to finalize the content which means construction of
additional islands, shootings, assembling the input, making
animations, composing of soundtracks.
• Then a programmer will put everything together and meanwhile we
will be promoting Islands of Awe online and look for additional
sponsoring.
• For all this our budget is 24.000 € [content production (travel costs,
material, shootings, animations, rent) collaborators, promotion].

7. THANK YOU!
Eric, Amalia, Giacomo, Michl, Annika & Clovis