Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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Go Ahead and Jump: Transmedia Storytelling

Go Ahead and Jump: Transmedia Storytelling | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Kevin Hodgson:  "In simple terms, I like to think of transmedia as storytelling with few if any boundaries, and as we continue to explore digital writing this month and beyond, this idea of taking a story for a walk across platforms seems to be right in tune with the possibilities of writing in a digital age" ...

Nathan Schultz's curator insight, November 25, 2015 4:31 PM

 

Kevin Hodgson:  "In simple terms, I like to think of transmedia as storytelling with few if any boundaries, and as we continue to explore digital writing this month and beyond, this idea of taking a story for a walk across platforms seems to be right in tune with the possibilities of writing in a digital age" ...

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Six Principles for Writing in a Multiplatform World. [#Transmedia]

Six Principles for Writing in a Multiplatform World. [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Mike Jones:  "Long-standing tenets of narrative still hold, but if we’re going to live and work in a multiplatform world - where audiences are spread across many narrative forms, not conglomerated together around a dominant - then Writers may need to rethink their processes and even the definition of what they are and what they do..."

Jeni Mawter's curator insight, March 23, 2015 9:50 PM

Mike Jones says: "In a multiplatform world a Writer cannot be defined by a Medium". I also agree with his comments that in order to write, you have to be able to talk!


Those who write for Young Adults should find this of interest.

James Coombes's curator insight, March 24, 2015 12:08 PM

"Technology has never changed what a Story is or what audiences expect of it. The commonality of Story between a stageplay, a novel, a film and a video game is much stronger than anything technology can throw at it."

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21st Century Writer’s Room [#Transmedia]

21st Century Writer’s Room [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Lance Weiler:  "The last few years have seen a rise in filmmakers who are extending the stories they tell beyond a single medium" ....

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Transmedia Writing

Transmedia Writing | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Geoff Livingston:  "Stories told across multi-platform media environments — or transmedia stories as they are commonly called on the edge — require more complex writing. A story unfolds across diverse media with readers/viewers opting in to each layer."

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Don't Be a Dead Rhino - Why Screenwriters Need Transmedia

Don't Be a Dead Rhino - Why Screenwriters Need Transmedia | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Houston Howard's powerful case for why screenwriters should embrace transmedia ... it's the key to innovating the independent film industry!  

Brad Tollefson's curator insight, July 9, 2015 12:42 AM

 Obviously, Steve should buy my book Make Your Story Really Stinkin’ Big because our 360° approach to transmedia is the perfect way.

Daniel Calabuig's curator insight, August 5, 2015 1:59 PM

 

Houston Howard's powerful case for why screenwriters should embrace transmedia ... it's the key to innovating the independent film industry!  

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Information and inspiration ...

Information and inspiration ... | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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September was a busy month for professional development in New Zealand with events on interactive storytelling, finding 'voice' in film & television, and transmedia ... Fiona Milburn reports back from this year's DOC Edge Lab, The Big Screen Symposium and NZGDC's Hollywood & Interactive IP event.


Image: Ingrid Kopp of the Tribeca Film Institute

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The Dangers of World-Building [#Transmedia]

The Dangers of World-Building [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Lucas Johnson provides a transmedia context to yesterday's scoop: At Home In Fantasy's Nerd-Built Worlds.


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Immersive Writing Lab at the London Transmedia Festival

Immersive Writing Lab at the London Transmedia Festival | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Leila Johnston: "Transmedia can be a controversial word, but it was embraced by the Lab, which explored the value of ‘immersive entertainment’ – stories told across more than one medium, playing with the boundaries of the real world, and often requiring participation from the audience"


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Brett.Ashley.Crawford's curator insight, August 27, 2013 3:46 PM

Engagement increasingly requires a new relationship to the arts -- not just digital and not just witnessing an event.  Immersing in the experience is the penultimate.