‘Come for the story, stay for the world’. - John du Pre Gauntt

Burner Face is a mystery thriller that shoots higher than “whodunit”. The audience peels back a debate over meaning and intelligence that takes place in a future Seattle transformed by climate change and accelerating technology. The five-episode scripted podcast blends science fiction, detective noir, and ghost story genres into a richly endowed story world of human and virtual characters.

The Burner Face website provides a 360 rich media experience driven by the linear podcast. It features a custom built, interactive map of Seattle, Puget Sound and the Northern Pacific coastlines 100 years from now after 22 meter rise in sea levels. The speculative map developed in partnership with MediaStorm and Seattle-based professional cartographer Jeffrey Linn.

Written, directed and narrated by John du Pre Gauntt, Burner Face offers an allegory about a plausible Seattle the next century arising from current climate projections and AI technology futurism. It aims to entertain and engage people's imaginations to speculate better about the future world.

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How do you take a podcast from the realm of monomedia to that of a multimedia experience? How can you intuitively display an entire world built from the mind of your client on the web? Then, if this is indeed accomplished, how can we keep our clients' brand in the forefront rather than being lost in the sea of corporate podcast providers? These were some of the heady questions we had to ask ourselves before we dove into helping The Augmented City with their new future thinking project ‘Burner Face’. 

MediaStorm Founder Brian Storm interviews three key players behind the Burner Face launch:

• John du Pre Gauntt: Writer, Director and Narrator
• Keith Ancker: Producer
• Beini Huang: Visual Designer

They cover their thoughts going into the project, the challenges they faced and how the MediaStorm Platform helped them achieve their goal.

We have integrated all the pieces of the Burner Face world into a single online experience. In John’s words, the MediaStorm Platform has enabled him to ‘Give people the option of how deep or how shallow they are ready to engage with this multimedia brand at any one moment.’ 

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For more information on how you can create powerful experiences that captivate audiences, contact brian@mediastorm.com.

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