Franklin City art committee approves Story web app, hires videographer for artist tours

The Franklin City Community Art Committee voted unanimously to commit $4,000 from this year’s committee funds and to authorize a contract not to exceed $8,220 with Brenton Creative to produce short videos and help launch a web-based walking-tour platform called Story (formerly PocketSites).

The decision, made during the committee’s meeting, responds to a multi-part proposal from committee member Dana to build a hosted, web-based “self‑guided” tours platform and to hire videographer Dustin Brenton to create short videos of artists and installations for the app and other city uses.

Dana said the platform is a hosted web application that the committee would control, noting “we own the content. We make complete decisions on what goes up, what goes down.” Dana told the group Story provides analytics and supports multiple tour types — art, history, business and temporary event tours — and that partner organizations would share the subscription cost.

Glenn Ferris of Franklin Heritage Inc. described Story’s builder as easier to edit than the product’s earlier…