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James Carter: "Go where your audience is and fashion a story you believe will engage them."
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' ...
Dan Levy: "Sparksheet was in Cambridge, Massachusetts this past weekend for the sixth-annual Futures of Entertainment event, where academics and industry types met to discuss the changing nature of storytelling in the digital era."
Simon Staffans: "[...] it became quite apparent that there is a very tangible interest in transmedia storytelling, not least among the marketing crowd. And it’s no surprise; utilizing transmedia storytelling methods when working on content – be it together with a brand or not – simply makes sense."
Lizzie Stark: "At Wyrd Con, I learned about transmedia, alternate reality games, and hobnobbed with the west coast's finest larpers and game designers" ...
Bill Boyd: "Just catching my breath after a great conference in Madrid where I had the privilege of sharing a platform with some very impressive speakers and activists from the emerging world of transmedia, including a truly inspirational masterclass from the master of transmedia himself, Henry Jenkins"...
Dorothea Martin: "[...] Inga von Staden, Jonathan Marshall, Anita Ondine, and Lance Weiler, guide the participants through the main topics in transmedia storytelling and production"...
Simon Staffans: "It’s Friday mid-day and the transmedia track at the game conference Nordic Game has about half a day left; right now I’m listening to a presentation of the game version of Game of Thrones" ...
Simon Staffans: "With the events of the past few days still somewhat fresh in my head, I thought it prompt to write up a short recap of some things I saw as important"...
I’ll be honest: I wasn’t that excited about going to Digital Hollywood today. I’ve become a little burned out on conferences and the often circular nature of panel discussion. However, despite my expectations (or perhaps because of them), I thought Digital Hollywood in New York today was superb, with a ton of solid insight into both creative and business endeavors.
Aside the organisers, there were eighteen of us […] you will see that our professional backgrounds and specialities and the different countries we come from make for a good portrait of both Europe and Transmedia, practitioners and institutions... [This is a great summary of the transmedia session that took place at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The discussion follows three lines of thought: Business, Storytelling and Participation.]
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Simon Staffans: "First Motion, a pan-Baltic area EU project, organised a conference this week in Riga, Latvia, and were kind enough to invite me to attend and take part in a panel discussion on funding and transmedia" ...
David Rowan: 'Delegates at the event, on 5 October, came from ad agencies and design shops, from the Punchdrunk theatre company and the Library of Congress -- all drawn by a shared curiosity about "reinventing the way stories are told"' ...
Geoffrey Maingart: "One of the most important subjects of the conference was “crowdfunding,” the great alternative way to fund a venture, and it can be done without giving up equity or accumulating debt" ...
"Also have a look at Robert Pratten’s (CEO of Transmedia Storyteller LTD) keynote slides, which introduces a methodology for participatory storytelling and illustrates with examples from his work" ...
Pinwheel: "The phrase was very popular, especially in the digital zone, at BookExpoAmerica this year. I wondered why I hadn't heard the term used more often? Apparently, I wasn't the only one" ...
Scott Walker: "Earlier this month I attended my first FMX conference, an annual event focused on animation, effects, games and transmedia" ...
DRC: A fabulously in-depth post from Scott Walker.
Dorothea Martin: "So yesterday in London, the first day of Transmedia Next (#tnx12) took place and involved all of the participants in a story, a competition and into the wide wide worlds of transmedia storytelling"...
Morgan Bouchet: "Over the course of nearly two hours, there was an animated discussion of a single theme: “Creative Economies: Commercial vs. State-Based Models”, or the views of the “rest of the world” on the challenges and economics of transmedia/crossmedia" ...
"The importance of industry dialogue & strong stories; the growth of formats & branded content; and hacker innovation were Staffans' key MIP takeaways"...
Transmedia Hollywood 3 just passed on Friday and like the two years previous, aimed to work out some of the prospects of the futures of entertainment...
Cross-platform storyteller and branded entertainment expert Sparrow Hall discusses how today's storytellers can (and should) partner with brands to reach larger audiences, acquire production funding, and develop a thriving business model...
I was fortunate to be invited to last week's MBA Media & Entertainment conference, hosted at NYU. It's an annual event organized by MBA students at Columbia, Duke Fuqua, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, a... [Simon Pulman summarizes his experiences at the MBA Media & Entertainment Conference.]
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