Story City is excited to announce the Creator Callout for Expressions of Interest (EOI) is now open for the City of Atlanta, in partnership with the City of Atlanta’s Park and Recreation Team.
We are commissioning 2 local writers, 1 visual artist/illustrator, and 1 voiceover actor to join our production team to create 3 new choose your adventure, or outdoor escape room style stories for 18 Atlanta Parks & Rec locations.
This opportunity is open to any writers, artists, and voiceover actors in Atlanta and the greater Atlanta area (easily able to visit the various parks at different stages of the project) and is a paid project for selected creators. See the EOI documents and the brief below for more information. If you are short-listed, you will also be invited to attend a free-to-you professional development day (valued at $200) on artistic collaboration and interactive storytelling.
Fill out an application form below by clicking on the link:
- Writer/Actor/Visual Artist [LINK]
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Applications are due by 5pm Wednesday, 1st of January 2025 (Deadline has been extended from the 23rd due to holidays)
The Brief
Story City, with the support of the City of Atlanta, will commission the creation of THREE fictional, interactive Choose Your Adventure or outdoor-escape-room-style experiences, meant to be experienced within Atlanta’s P&R after school care locations. The stories will be available through the free Story City app for 12 months.
Story City takes the traditional, passive, story experience and invites the public to step into the adventure, delivering it to smartphones and mobile devices. Through the Story City locative app, users are guided on a trail to unravel and explore a story of their own choosing. These stories, created for both locals and tourists, combine fiction, historical fact and personal choice to illuminate the area in a new and exciting way.
Story City will commission 2 local writers, 1 visual artist/illustrator, and 1 voiceover actor to collaborate on each story and deliver something truly unique to Atlanta’s parks.
Previous Story City adventures have included treasure hunts, Sherlock Holmes style mysteries, zombie apocalypses, ghost stories, pirate tales and alternate realities. Remember, whether it is running from a horde of the undead, or stopping an alien invasion, or going in search of lost treasures, your stories must make the user the central character in the action and provide them with a diversity of choices or puzzles to move the story forward.
This project is brought to you by:
This project was made possible by the City of Atlanta’s Parks and Recreation Office which seeks to educate the public on the nomenclature of the historical figures / stories of the city parks and build out an interconnected network of stories that draw people to and from different parks within the city.
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