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One of the best resource tool kits for Canadian and Australian transmedia producers and filmmakers.
Show your skills at L.A.'s very first 24-hour, multiplatform transmedia competition!
Produced in association with Storycode. the Story Hackathon is a real-time, 24-hour competition during which five teams of four partners work to develop a cohesive narrative across multiple platforms.
Fresh off his directorial debut, the William Faulkner adaptation "As I Lay Dying," which just had its premiere at Cannes (go HERE for our review), James Franco has just launched a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo for $500,000 to make a trilogy of feature films based on short stories in his first book (Yes! He wrote a book; there's lots of reminders on the page!)....
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As a result of a Symposium on the Promotion of Canadian Films and Television Programs in Canada and Internationally held in Ottawa last October, a Working Group was created to focus attention on developing partnerships with various industry leaders. Its mandate is to determine ways to increase awareness of, and interest in, the success of Canadian content with targeted audiences and the general public, primarily through a social media campaign.
Experience D-Day in real time by following seven real people who were there. Stories, pictures and video of the decisive World War II battle
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"Story is more powerful than any weapon." Empowered storytellers can signal calls to action in distressed nations.
excerpt: "We have a theory that web-native stories will be especially good for bridging inspiration and action. That is: if you get really good at web-native storytelling, you will be able to more effectively mobilize an audience to go fix the world. This seed of an idea brought us into partnership with the Tribeca Film Institute, with support from Ford Foundation, to produce a week long “Storytelling Innovation Lab.”
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Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how you can improve how you navigate future scenarios...
With all the discussion about the future of Kickstarter in recent weeks, it may be appropriate that a film that began its campaign at the beginning of the crowdfunding movement is finally coming out this Saturday. The Cosmonaut — a Spanish-made English-language film directed by Nicolás Alcalá and produced by Carola Rodriguez and Bruno Teixidor — raised over €300,000 from 5,000 contributors. It was the first crowdfunded film in Spain and helped pave the way for the foundation of Lánzanos, Spain’s Kickstarter equivalent.
Emotions play tricks on our memories, making our recollections of events much happier or heart-wrenching than they actually were.
"The third part of this series, contributed by community managers Lisa Pastor and Ashley Alicea, focuses on best practices for community management, and engaging and growing a Facebook game fanbase from the ground up."
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The National Film Board of Canada is one of world's the leading producers of immersive and cross-media documentaries. Loc Dao and Hugues Sweeney give an in-depth look into the process behind their award-winning projects A Journal of Insomnia and Bear 71 and discuss the past and future of the NFB as well as its role in the global media ecosystem. Let's start with two of your recent projects: Bear 71 and A Journal of Insomnia. In each case, is it possible to separate the story from the technology? Loc:
Not in our work. The technology is part of the work. It's interesting in that Bear and Insomnia share certain technological characteristics: multi-user audiences, web-cams, installations that interact with the content, but ultimately each is a very different way of telling a story. Hugues:
Each project is a blank canvas. This has been the NFB's DNA for almost seventy-five years: there is no format, there is no series or recipe, there is no repetition. If you go back to the birth of cinéma vérité — direct cinema — it's about synching sound to film. And when you read the discussions around the first direct cinema films, they are talking about the camera and the sound as "reality sensors" and "reality captors". That was in 1959. So what does a web-cam mean today? What does a GPS mean today? What does a brain sensor mean today?...
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Transmedia has done what it came to do. It brought us together. It let us find one another. It let us form a community. Through that community, we broadened our horizons and narrowed our focus. We found a few commonalities amongst our many differences. And we’ve amassed a great deal of work that can be used as examples to show a need for funding and support. What it’s called and what box it fits in is irrelevant.
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We chat with the first man to take photos from space using the Raspberry Pi and find out what new horizons the Raspberry Pi opened for him (literally).
Filmmaking doesn't get much more next-level than Weiler's oeuvre, which has always dealt with the intersection of technology and narrative in fascinatingly dense, innovative ways. Long before the Producers Guild created a transmedia credit, Weiler was working on strategies for engaging audiences in the world of his movies rather than asking them to just sit there and watch them
For the last three years Breakfast has been working on creating a street sign. Like most other “all points” signs in the world, this one will lead you in the right direction towards your destination. But that’s pretty much where the similarities end. The Brooklyn-based interactive agency’s sign, called Points, is an high-tech version of a low tech tool. While it can, in fact, tell directions, Points is also able to tell you who’s winning the U.S. Open, where the nearest coffee shop is or how soon the next bus will be arriving. This is all while its shiny aluminum arms rotate 360 degrees around the pole, pointing you in the direction of the information being served.
Marama Whyte: "'Welcome to Sanditon's transmedia producer Alexandra Edwards responds to fan criticism of the show, dealing with fan expectations from 'The LBD', and more."
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Simon Staffans: "Rob Pratten had a brief but excellent post up on Transmedia Coalition the other day, entitled ”The 5Rs of Mobile in Transmedia Storytelling”. To recapitalize briefly, the gist of the post were that" ...
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Digital Alberta gave out awards to the province’s best and brightest in digital media at the Royal Alberta Museum on Sunday night.
I'm not a fan of the word "transmedia" but Extension 756 is not only a transmedia project, it has the potential to be transmedia at it's absolute finest. Soderbergh's focus on integrating storytelling into an e-commerce expereince starts with the name of the site itself. "Extension 756" is taken from a line that's spoken by Harrison Ford's character every time he answers the phone in Coppola's still under appreciated masterpiece, The Conversation.
Robert Pratten: 'Simple one-sheet to help transmedia storytellers present their projects. The aim is to get some consistency of presentation so that those listening can "get it"'
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"Go where your audience is and fashion a story you believe will engage them."
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking at the first StoriesLab conference at Center for Social Media at American University in Washington D.C. StoriesLab is a project of StoriesLead and co-presented by Pride Collaborative. The focus of the day was the evolution of storytelling across multiple media platforms. And it was one of the most energetic conferences I’ve attended in a while. Often, I find myself at conventions or conferences, and I rarely get an opportunity to meet other participants or engage in the work, itself. StoriesLab shattered that paradigm by offering not one, not two, but three interactive working sessions to help its attendees understand this unwieldy notion of multi-platform storytelling.
This article talks about 5 concepts of telling multi-screen stories and how we can use them to create exciting, digital experiences.
MIT Open Documentary Lab: "[Katerina] Cizek is currently the director of the NFB’s HIGHRISE project, exploring new forms and new approaches to content. HIGHRISE is a multi-year, many media series of projects. You can see it at highrise.nfb.ca and her previous project Filmmaker-in-Residence at filmmaker.nfb.ca."
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Andrea Phillips: "It's become fashionable to hate the word 'transmedia' in some circles. The T-word has been very good to me. It's netted me any number of speaking engagements and website hits and sold me a book, among other things, so I feel a certain loyalty to it. I don't think I'd be enjoying the same degree of professional success if I hadn't very consciously embraced That Word back in 2010 or so."
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Kikkoman USA is taking corporate storytelling seriously, and I was as shocked as anyone else when I was not only intrigued by a 30-second bumper on Hulu.com, but fascinated by the 28-minute documentary beyond the click.
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