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We are really pleased to announce that Film 4 are using Picle as a submission method for their ‘Scene Stealers’ competition.
Scene Stealers is a competition that challenges aspiring filmmakers to recreate iconic moments from Film 4s 30-year film history, a new creative talent search launched under Film 4s innovation banner Film4.0.
The App Store has just approved our latest release of Picle - version 1.0.4 - and it is ready for download now.
Picle is an App (currently only for iPhone) that we launched at year's South by South West Interactive. Picle adds sound to iPhone photography, allowing you to capture a little audio clip when you take a photo. This photo-plus-sound clip is called a 'Picle', and the app makes it quick and simple to lace individual Picles together into 'Stories'.
The latest update is packed with new sharing features - yes, you can share it directly into Tumblr, embed it straight into your Facebook stream (as well as uploading it directly to YouTube or to PicleApp.com - the website we've built for people to publish Picles and Stories to).
Apologies for the radio silence on how Picle has been developing since the last release. The reason for this is that we have been wrestling internally over what Picle actually is. It sounds rather existential, but by watching how people use Picle and feedback to us, we have had to ask some deeper questions than 'How can we get more people using the app?'.
Here is a panaromic shot of some sketches, printouts and timeline up in the Picle den.
Toot toot! Picle 1.0.3 is in the app store. It isn't the overhauled socially integrated version that I wrote about previously, but it does include something that we have had a lot of requests for, converting picles into movies. There are also new notification screens for uploading stories and the uploading of individual Picles has had some improvement tweeks made.
Tim took time out from SxSW to answer questions on Picle, its future developments, walking around in underwear and other things to look forward to.
In my last post I wrote about how we are moving forward with Picle and that we have an interim release coming out this week, well the good news is that the interim release (1.0.2) is live in the App Store now.
Last week we had our first Picle strategy meeting since getting back to blighty from SXSW. We have digested a lot of feedback from tweets, emails, reviews, articles, as well as testing it out ourselves, and it was time to step back and take a look at where we're at.
We started off by evaluating how the launch went and how people have responded to the concept of Picle. Stuart drew this rather rudimentary graph of the potential life span of Picle.
As with most social online applications, you can think of the data as more like a graph than very simple objects that stand alone. This kind of an application and data is my favourite kind of system to architect and here is why. I warn you, this might get geeky..
picle's a bit like a comic. As @malbonster said, it's more dreamlike than video. I think part of that comes from the spaces between the frames into which you have to insert your imagination. That was a theme of Scott McCloud's amazing graphic explanation of the history, meaning and art of the comic, Understanding Comics. Here's his illustration of the design decisions a comic artist makes. It's a remarkably good guide to how to make a great picle, too.
