Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

Yomi Ayeni:  "I’m often asked what the interactive theatrical experience Clockwork Watch is, and the answer changes with each stage of the production. The underlying objective, though, is to create a fictional Victorian universe and tell a story where the narrative is delivered through live events, graphic novels, role-play, online news sites, and a feature film, all co-authored by the audience, through their interactions with our make-believe world over the next five years" ...

Anita Li: "Fans of 007 get the chance to live vicariously through their favorite British spy in a new digital campaign for James Bond film, Skyfall" ...

Joe Berkowitz: "Perhaps the best thing to come out of MTV’s prioritization of "reality" TV over music videos is that more artists have sought more creative means to tell their stories--including releasing interactive videos online that transcend the TV broadcast experience" ...

Rae Ann Fera: "Toronto-based interactive agency uses a multi-layered narrative experience to test the limits of where technology meets story" ...

Musa Syeed: "[...] I felt that as a filmmaker, I had reason to fear technological advancements in the field. New media/interactive/transmedia was making a medium I revered as a child seemingly obsolete, banishing motion pictures from the majestic big screen to pathetic, paltry iPhones."

DRC:  Read how Musa Syeed now views the interactive realm as "an essential part of making a traditional film."

Mandy Rose: '“How does the documentary genre connect to visual art, music or the digital revolution? To robots, poetry and interactive installations?” What’s “…the link between documentary and innovation, experiment and adventure.” This was the territory of Expanding Documentary' ...

Ben Kersey: "It’s hard to wrap your head around the enigma that is Lost, a show that spans 33 years across 121 episodes and six seasons, but what if you looked at it from a different perspective?"

Laura Mandengue:  "Canada is MIPCOM 2012's Country of Honour. From now until then, we'll be highlighting the nation's most creative projects, via the CMF/FMC. Enjoy!"

DRC: Part 1 can be found here.

Katherine Brooks: "Scott Snibbe is a New York-based media artist whose innovative vision has taken the art and music worlds to new depths of interactivity. From giant, digital public installations to touch-screen based art, the visual artist behind musicians like Bjork and Passion Pit is bringing together art, music and technology in groundbreaking ways."

Angela Watercutter: "TheBlu, a 'social digital ocean' that launched Friday, is an ambitious web app that turns computers into interactive nature documentaries" ...

"Why talk about the HTML5 standard, about Flash, about programming in a [i-Docs] symposium about interactive documentaries? Because in the digital world the technology moulds the content. The narrative possibilities will sooner or later clash with the technological ones. The distance between what is imagined and what is produced is marked by the latter."

DRC: A look at 3 editors for interactive content: Popcorn Maker, Klynt, and 3WDOC.  You'll find the slideshow that accompanies this discussion here.