Videobook

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In a video book are on tablet devices such as the iPad video clips, image galleries, interactive graphics and in-depth text on a multi-layered, multimedia narrative together. The focus is on the visual narrative elements. They are supplemented by detailed texts or original documents. Videobooks are sold either in the form of a single app or in the form of a container app that combines several videobooks.

Videobooks are often used as part of a transmedia narrative structure by adapting a major work (film, book) for a videobook and supplementing it with further multimedia elements.

history

The first forms and publications of video books appeared with the introduction of the iPad in 2010. In November 2013, the Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (SRG) published several in-depth video books in the four national languages ​​as an accompanying medium to the TV series "Die Schweizer".

Web links

Trailer videobook "Die Schweizer" on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_poPJBQyTQ .
Videobook "Carl Lutz. The forgotten hero" ( weblink ). This videobook won the first German eBook Award at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2014 and was awarded the title "Best of Apple Store" by Apple.

Individual evidence

  1. SRG media release of November 12, 2013 Archived copy ( memento of the original of June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srgssr.ch
  2. Aargauer Zeitung of November 29, 2013 http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/leben/digital/die-schweizer-nach-der-doku-fiction-kom-das-videobook-127426820