Johnny on the Radio
(2007) 19min 52sec

This a web based project that uses a ‘weblog’ (or blog) as a device to build an interactive and collectively constructed narrative. In order to achieve this I began by placing one paragraph from an existing blog into it’s own blog space that I developed specifically for the project (http://soidreamtofyoulastnight.blogspot.com). The following stage was inviting users to make their own contributions and additions to the text by continuing from where the previous user left off. The process contained only one restriction - that is that as the final piece was to be realised as a monologue for radio they were asked to remain in first person. The process was to continue until the text reached the 4000word count, at which stage the existing content was to be used as source material for the final script. The final script was then read and performed by the 'traditional storyteller' Giles_Abbot, with backing sound and music by myself.