The Importance of Immersion

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The idea of immersion is going on right now with this idea of the audience's desire for it. You can just be a casual fan and that's enough, but if you really care about what's being told then you're going to want to go deeper. I mean, i just watched film on t v called the dig that was produced by nat flik. And it was the true story about the discovery in a remote part of coastal england. There was a huge treasure surrounding the person who had been buried. The person had long since disintegrated as well the body, but the gold and silver were still there.

Once it was The Shadow radio show; now it's the podcast Serial. Is every old storytelling medium new again? Frank Rose, author of The Sea We Swim In, concedes that some things remain sacred--from the power of a great hook to the hope that great stories never end. But he also thinks the Internet has led to new kinds of stories, ones that are not just entertaining, but immersive, and whose worlds are more richly imaginative than ever--even as they leave increasingly little to our imagination.