YouTube has pretty cool feature called Annotations that can be used to make YouTube videos more interactive. These annotations are inserted into the videos to let the viewer decide between different directions that the video could continue in.

This feature has been available now for one year according to the YouTube Blog and in a recent blog entry they show this example:

“The story, which is shot from a first-person point of view, lets viewers control the hero’s actions (e.g. deciding whether or not he should take his knife to school). Only when the plot reaches one of its grim endings do you realize that the video, commissioned by the London Metropolitan Police, is actually a powerful tool in helping youngsters cope with some of the tough decisions they are faced growing up in a violent environment.”

I’m looking forward to seing what will happen to storytelling in the future as more and more creators will adapt to this interactive way of using online video.

//Tomas

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