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‘White Collar’ Cranks Up the Heat With Interactive Social TV Game

‘White Collar’ Cranks Up the Heat With Interactive Social TV Game | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Christina Warren: "The game and experience, dubbed Neal’s Stash, is the final stage of a multi-faceted social TV and transmedia campaign that Ford sponsored for the USA Network show" ...

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How Digital Filmmakers Produced a Gorgeous Sci-Fi Movie on a Kickstarter Budget

How Digital Filmmakers Produced a Gorgeous Sci-Fi Movie on a Kickstarter Budget | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Tim Maly:  "When Derek Van Gorder and Otto Stockmeier decided to make a science fiction short about a mutiny on an interplanetary warship, they didn't have the funds for CGI."

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"Kit bashing is when you go to a model store and buy up boxed models kits like cars and naval vessels to repurpose the parts for your completely unrelated miniature."  Intrigued?  Then you should definitely read the rest of this article :)

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Technology and Transmedia

Michael Annetta: "The slide deck from my StoryWorld 2012 presentation."

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4 Rules For Creating Interactive Content For A Multi-Platform, Multi-Device World

4 Rules For Creating Interactive Content For A Multi-Platform, Multi-Device World | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Miller Medeiros and David Vale: "The interactive world is constantly changing, and the number of different devices that connect it all is growing every year. The problem that arises is that there are no rules for the game."

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3-D Printing Goes Hollywood With Stop-Motion Animated Feature ParaNorman

3-D Printing Goes Hollywood With Stop-Motion Animated Feature ParaNorman | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Caitlin Roper: "With tens of thousands of printed parts, millions of hours of work, and billions of pixels invested, the project represents unparalleled innovation in handmade storytelling—and a new future for a 100-year-old art form" ...

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Transmedia Companies Want 'Story-Driven' Tech People

Transmedia Companies Want 'Story-Driven' Tech People | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson: "The entertainment business is engaged in nothing less than the reinvention of narrative, and the leading edge is something called transmedia."

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Transmedia. It's not a brand. It's not a campaign. It's not fucking advertising!

Transmedia. It's not a brand. It's not a campaign. It's not fucking advertising! | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Mike Jones: "A collaborator I am currently involved with in developing a large multi-platform project sent me a link to [uWall.TV] and posed the question of how we might use such an interface in the context of the multi-platform storyworld experience we’re currently developing" ...

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Your Tweets Are Why The Next Walter Cronkite Will Be A Robot

Your Tweets Are Why The Next Walter Cronkite Will Be A Robot | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

David Holmes: "A computer that can write like a human is a neat trick. But Moxie Awards finalist Narrative Science is taking the role of the robot journalist to the next level"...

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Story Hack: Beta – entertaining and engaging, the transmedia way

Story Hack: Beta – entertaining and engaging, the transmedia way | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Amanda Lin Costa: 'It’s not often, if ever, that one attends an event at the New York Lincoln Center and the host announces: “Please turn your cellphones on!”'

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Movie Industry Must Bring The Theater "Home"

Movie Industry Must Bring The Theater "Home" | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"The downward trend in movie attendance and DVD purchases are really the result of one, simple catch-all word: “technology.” Technological advances in home theater, especially since 2005 have shrunk the difference between watching movies in the home and watching in the theater."

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Modern Storytelling: Enhanced or Spawned by Technology?

Modern Storytelling: Enhanced or Spawned by Technology? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Len Kendall: "This panel-style blog post was spawned by my recent interest in the game Zombies, Run! As someone who is passionate about the Zombie genre, but not at all passionate about exercise, I was excited to find a fusion of mobile technology, storytelling, and real-world activity that would help gamify my healthy habits."


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Story-Hack: Where Storytelling and Technology Meet

Story-Hack: Where Storytelling and Technology Meet | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"Many storytellers find that they lack the basic concepts of technology (from web design to coding). Likewise technologists have difficulty developing engaging narratives for their projects. Connecting the two groups is the primary focus of the New York transmedia community. This is how it began" ...

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SXSW Panels' Illustrated Recaps For 'Ogilvy Notes' (SLIDESHOW)

SXSW Panels' Illustrated Recaps For 'Ogilvy Notes' (SLIDESHOW) | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Austin's South By Southwest festival is known for the massive chaos that is the music industry taking over the city, but it's also gaining wide recognition for its tech side.


"Advertising house Ogilvy helped out with an illustrated system to make sense of some of the best [tech] panels during SXSW."

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Sherlock: A Perspective on Technology and Story Telling

Sherlock: A Perspective on Technology and Story Telling | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
If nothing else, Sherlock forces us to recognize how much of our 21st century lives are mediated by technology and what that technology says about us...

 

[An interesting look at the latest interpretation of those classic Sherlock Holmes' mysteries.]

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Exploring 48 Frames Per Second

Exploring 48 Frames Per Second | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Hugh Hart:  "With The Hobbit trilogy Peter Jackson will introduce audiences to a 3-D film shot at 48 FPS. Depending on the response, it could open a whole new dimension for directors" ...

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Life of Pi could be the 3D phenomenon the Oscars have been waiting for

Life of Pi could be the 3D phenomenon the Oscars have been waiting for | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Tom Shone: The critics may not know it yet, but Ang Lee's latest film has everything the Academy could want in a best picture winner...
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The Technical Triumph And Torment Of Paranorman’s 3-D-Printing-Driven Animation Process

The Technical Triumph And Torment Of Paranorman’s 3-D-Printing-Driven Animation Process | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Susan Karlin: "Long before ParaNorman’s protagonist could start battling zombies, Laika’s Brian McLean and his 40-member team had to tame a new stop-motion technology process. McLean talks about the bloody road to the film’s bleeding-edge character design."

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The Dark Knight Rises, and takes Imax with him

The Dark Knight Rises, and takes Imax with him | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

David Cox: "Christopher Nolan is singlehandedly transforming the prospects of the biggest picture show of all" ...

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4-D movies: Next big thing for U.S. theaters?

4-D movies: Next big thing for U.S. theaters? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Richard Verrier: "As the giant spaceship crashes into the mysterious planet, the seats inside the movie theater heave back and forth and rumble like an earthquake" ...

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The Next Generation of [Transmedia] Storytelling: RIDES.TV

The Next Generation of [Transmedia] Storytelling: RIDES.TV | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Peter Murner: "Many in the media industry see the increasingly divided attention of viewers as a challenge, but in reality it offers a unique opportunity to engage viewers in more meaningful and relevant ways "...

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E3 2012: How The Cloud Is Changing The Games Business

E3 2012: How The Cloud Is Changing The Games Business | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

John Gaudiosi: "Gaming in the cloud, which allows game content to be stored on a secure server and players to game from multiple devices seamlessly via broadband connectivity, is allowing PC devices to thrive" ...

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RIDES Tutorial - Transmedia Storytelling Platform on RIDES.TV

A walkthrough of the interface for RIDES, the new transmedia storytelling platform from Fourth Wall Studios.

 

RIDES is a new interactive transmedia viewing platform that adds a whole new level to viewing high quality content on your computer or your mobile device or both!


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http://youtu.be/iWE9U7NSaFg for an example of series using the features
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Berg Explores The Future Of Touchable Movies (Video)

Berg Explores The Future Of Touchable Movies (Video) | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Tim Arnall: "There is something beautiful about the analogue, optical qualities of lenses, cameras, and moving images that don’t exist in 3-D, and this is not about simply rotating objects, it is about getting our hands 'dirty’ in the medium of cinema."

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Tech up your Format: 15 MIPFormats Commandments

Tech up your Format: 15 MIPFormats Commandments | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"A well-chosen diversity of tech journalists and techies each imparted their own “10 Tech Commandments” to MIPFormats today, as C21Media’s David Jenkinson moderated. From the resulting 30, we extracted 15 that captured shared ideas or yielded new paths."

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One Screen To Rule Them All

One Screen To Rule Them All | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
While hosting this year’s Academy Awards, Billy Crystal cracked, “I prefer the big screen… which is my iPad.”


DRC:  A look at how tablets are changing the way we view traditional television.

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A 3D Production Guide for 3D Television Production by 3net

A 3D Production Guide for 3D Television Production by 3net | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The 3D television production studio and 3D TV channel 3net along with its partners Discovery, Sony and IMAX have released a comprehensive manual for stereoscopic 3D pre-production, 3D workflows, 3D post-processing ...

 

[This also includes a link to the free download of the PDF manual ... very useful!]


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