Author(s):
\nKate Pullinger<\/p>\n
Jellybone (british slang for telephone) by Kate Pullinger is a story reflecting the medium
\nthrough which it is told. Smartphones are the most important tool of communication of our
\ntime and from a special value for our protagonist.
\nA London millennial, Florence \u2018Flo\u2019 Evans, 24, is used to receiving strange, garbled
\nmessages on her phone since childhood. Are ghosts trying to reach out to her? She ignores
\nthose as best as she can, facing more urgent real-life problems. Being an unpaid intern at a
\nmagazine, she struggles with debts and a crush on her best friends boyfriend. Former
\nboyfriend, as her best friend Lana has gone missing three years ago. But is she really dead?
\nFlo suddenly receives a message including information only Lana could know. Is this another
\nghost message? Flo who had no real purpose in life until now, decides to investigate who
\nsent her this message and what happened to Lana.
\nA dangerous adventure with a paranormal twist, a coming of age story told in 10 episodes
\nusing different media in the unique interactive oolipo format.
\nJellybone is told from a first person point of view but opening up the story through third
\nperson perspectives. You can read these perspectives in a kind of parallel narrative, or
\ndecide not too, without missing out on the main narrative.
\nReading experience
\nWhile reading this story, your phone will come to life – messages appear, it vibrates and
\nrings, so that you at some point might not be sure anymore if you\u2019re reading a story or
\nbecame part of it yourself. You receive the messages Flo receives on her phone and
\nexperience exact the same things she gets with those messages. The narrative is told
\nthrough text, when an emotion of Flo is very strong, handwriting is used. Flo does also have
\nan Instagram account (https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jellybone_flossie\/), which she uses as her
\npublic diary and where she shares more about her life.
\nTo create the right atmosphere, we use sound effects and video collages which show where
\nwe are and what the circumstances are. Collages like this are also used to give the reader
\nthe chance to see what Flo can see in a special moment. The oolipo format is capable of
\nreacting on where on a screen you are, using surprise effects like suddenly appearing gifs or
\nghosts for example (this gets more on later episodes).
\nUsed Media:
\ninner voice: handwritten
\nFlo\u2019s public diary: Instagram – real Instagram account
\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jellybone_flossie\/
\nghost messages: chat module – imitating phone messages (text, images, soundmessages)
\naction scenes\/atmosphere: gifs\/videos and sound
\nIn a next step even more interactive possibilities will be implemented. Later this summer and
\nbefore the exhibitions, the commenting feature and something we call user-threads will be
\nreleased. User-threads enable people to contribute to the story by themselves. They will be
\nasked to write a backstory or even new parallel narratives. The open end of the last
\nJellybone episode will for example be picked up by readers.
\nTeam working on Jellybone
\nAuthor: Kate Pullinger
\nArt Direction: David L\u00f6we
\nProducer: Solveig Pobuda
\nProducer: Dorothea Martin
\nVFX: Jan Sch\u00fctze
\nDesigner: Daniel Pankau
\nPlease read the story on an iphone<\/p>\n
Jellybone is available on the iPhone (all 10 episodes), on Android (https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.oolipo<\/a>) and you can have a look on the web as well (https:\/\/www.oolipo.com\/stories\/jellybone<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author(s): Kate Pullinger Jellybone (british slang for telephone) by Kate Pullinger is a story reflecting the medium through which it is told. Smartphones are the most important tool of communication of our time and from a special value for our protagonist. A London millennial, Florence \u2018Flo\u2019 Evans, 24, is used to receiving strange, garbled messages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,3],"tags":[4,27],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-honorable-mentions-en","category-tol-prize","tag-english","tag-kate-pullinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}