Posts under this project (6)
Mozfest 2018 – Interactive Origami & Adaptive Stories Workshop
The goal of this stand was to show participants the advantages of object based media (OBM) and adaptive storytelling including the advantages for accessibility and learning. The origami...
1 January 2019 by Thomas Preece Read more...
IBC 2019 – Tech Talk: production case studies
In 2019 I attended the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam with my colleagues and gave a talk along with Matt Brooks about StoryKit, an Object-Based Media Toolkit...
25 October 2019 by Thomas Preece Read more...
Taking Object-Based Media from the Research Environment into Mainstream Production
“In our IBC2017 paper [1] we described our experiences with Object-Based Media (OBM) and outlined our aims for developing a toolkit to enable authors to make such experiences...
2 February 2020 by Thomas Preece Read more...
StoryKit (Part 1/2): Background & Playback
I worked on the StoryKit project (formally OBM Toolkit) in BBC R&D from 2017 to 2020. During my time on the project, I’ve helped the project grow from...
3 October 2020 by Thomas Preece Read more...
StoryKit (Part 2/2): Authoring & Experiences
In Part 1 of this post we looked at a brief background of Object Based Media, the Data Model we created and StoryPlayer. In this post we are...
6 December 2020 by Thomas Preece Read more...See more posts
I worked on the StoryKit project (formally OBM Toolkit) in BBC R&D from 2017 to 2020. During my time on the project, I helped the project grow from its inception to it’s use in the real world by production teams. This resulted in Object Based Media experiences such as Click1000 and HDMAdventure.
I was responsible for a large chunk of the system design and code. My main responsibilities were developing, maintaining and keeping the backend running. At some points during the project I was handling this on my own. This included managing deployments, keeping the build server running and debugging problems in the large system of microservices we had. I’ve learnt and applied a lot of knowledge to be successful at this, in particular a lot of knowledge in AWS, troposphere and CI. I also learned a lot of frontend development and UI design as I was often developing those tools too. This includes experience in NodeJS, React JS, Redux, React Router, Express, TypeScript and CSS.
See the posts below for a more in depth look at the StoryKit Project.