{"id":571,"date":"2013-05-09T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gutcheckamerica.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:59:39","slug":"the-story-of-my-first-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gutcheckamerica.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"The Story of My First ‘Story’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the story of my first “Story by Disney,” which is a new storytelling app<\/span><\/a><\/span> the company just released today in Apple’s App store.\u00a0 The idea is deceptively simple: offer an app that allows “mom and pop” to automatically<\/strong> cobble together a story from the hundreds, if not thousands, of images they have held hostage<\/del> languishing away in their iPhones.<\/p>\n

Here’s how “Inside Mobile Apps” describes the automatic story build process inside “Story”:<\/p>\n

Story is broken up into two sections \u2014 Moments and Stories. Moments are pieces of media from a user\u2019s camera roll that is automatically pulled together based on a piece of media\u2019s time stamp and location tag by Disney\u2019s proprietary algorithm. The developers classified a moment as something that can\u2019t span more than a calendar day, and no piece of media in a series collected within that time span can have a gap of more than a certain amount of time or distance. Once a moment is collected, a user can turn it into a story. Users can drag and drop media around, edit a title, add captions, and give their story a theme, which consists of fonts, colors, backgrounds and photo treatments. [Disney senior director of engineering Scott] Gerlach says Disney will later allow users to add vocal annotations, music and other forms of media, to their stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The app works great, as advertised.\u00a0 This little story of mine took all of two minutes, including editing, to put together.\u00a0 It is produced, literally, from random images I made while on a walk from my first door, around the block and back again home.\u00a0 Very cool.\u00a0 Take a look:<\/p>\n