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Benjamin Hoguet is a writer and a designer of interactive and transmedia works. He has contributed to many interactive documentary, fiction and comic strip projects. He has also written for Éditions Dixit four books on new forms of storytelling that make up the La Narration Réinventée collection.

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Storytelling AI: How Artificial Intelligence Feeds Creativity

Benjamin Hoguet - April 5, 2019

Artificial intelligence and the arts are two notions that have been considered as incompatible for a long time now. However, AI’s recent breakthrough in...

Élèves en liberté: A Classroom in Augmented Reality Sound

Benjamin Hoguet - January 23, 2019

A headset that places you in a large room and generates a world of sounds based on your movements and interactions. That is the...

Gender Derby: Vertical Documentary as a New Genre

Benjamin Hoguet - October 17, 2018

To draw a portrait of Jasmin, a young trans who loves roller derby, the Gender Derby team opted for an unusual format that nevertheless...

The Enemy: Combining Photojournalism and New Technologies

Benjamin Hoguet - September 11, 2018

The Enemy is a non-standard work that deals with the representation of the enemy in conflict zones. Its producer, Karim Ben Khelifa, and its...

The social impact of a transmedia project: The Zero Impunity model

Benjamin Hoguet - August 1, 2018

A rich and thoughtful transmedia project that makes the most of a wide range of online support (investigative reports, petitions, animated documentaries, public space...

Alice, The Virtual Reality Play: When the Real and the Virtual Meet

Benjamin Hoguet - June 12, 2018

Produced by DV Group, Alice, The Virtual Reality Play is both a technical achievement in the world of VR storytelling and the layout of a possible...

Telling stories with objects

Benjamin Hoguet - April 27, 2018

Photo: Wuxia the Fox, an augmented book & app Bringing together the real and the virtual can make a project more impactful, while also providing a...

Creating a Snapchat Original Series: The #PLS Success Story

Benjamin Hoguet - February 22, 2018

Far from simple communication tools, social networks are becoming increasingly viable storytelling platforms for documentaries and works of fiction. Snapchat stories such as #PLS...

Telling Stories Through Phone Messages: Bury me, my Love and the Syrian Crisis

Benjamin Hoguet - November 16, 2017

Interview with Florent Maurin, creator and producer of Bury me, my Love, an interactive work midway between fiction and documentary. Using a phone to send messages has...

Été: Instagram as a Storytelling Tool to Drive Audience Engagement

Benjamin Hoguet - November 2, 2017

Making sure an audience finds and watches digital content is not an easy task. An increasing number of projects are therefore developed to be told...

Culture Is Everywhere: Voyages Sonores 3D and Cube

Benjamin Hoguet - October 12, 2017

The story of our history, our heritage and our culture was for a long time confined to well-defined spaces such as libraries, museums, historical...

Venice VR and its Heavenly Isle of Virtual Reality

Benjamin Hoguet - September 19, 2017

A guided tour of Lazarretto Vecchio, an island dedicated to VR during the 74th Venice International Film Festival, accompanied by Michel Reilhac, the organizer of...

Broadcasting Strategies for the Digital Age

Benjamin Hoguet - August 8, 2017

A successful marketing and distribution campaign has three key ingredients: advertising on social networks, partnerships with established media outlets and reaching out to influencers. Producing...

SwapTales: Léon!: the Making of a Family Video Game

Benjamin Hoguet - March 28, 2017

A look at the making of SwapTales: Léon! an award-winning game designed to appeal to young and old alike. The concept: changing the storyline by inverting...