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Da Vinci on Transmedia

Da Vinci on Transmedia | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Simon Staffans: "[...] even though we’re closing in on half a millennia since Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, so much of what he thought and taught is applicable today. It’s even possible to directly relate some of the truths he spoke to the multiplatform transmedia cross media world of today" ...

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iPad App Vision Machine Reinvents the Independent Digital Comic

iPad App Vision Machine Reinvents the Independent Digital Comic | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Filmmaker Magazine:  "Filmmaker Greg Pak (Robot Stories) has released his graphic novel Vision Machine as an iPad app and, in the process, is pointing the way towards new storytelling formats and new production and distribution partnerships."

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows gets second-screen iPad app

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows gets second-screen iPad app | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Stuart Dredge: "Second-screen apps are all the rage in the TV industry, but the idea is catching on for the film world too" ...

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A Dad's Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children

A Dad's Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Through extensive observational research, I’ve discovered what works and doesn’t work for my daughter, so I’m going to shamelessly generalize my findings to all children and propose four essential guidelines for developers who work on iPad apps for children...


A no nonsense approach ...

  • Affordance Is King
  • Pagination Is A primary Action
  • The Menu Is A Distant Seconday Action
  • If You Try To Trick My Kid Into Buying Stuff, You're Dead To Me

... and a must read.

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Cognito Comics launches dazzling Operation Ajax graphic novel as free iPad download

Cognito Comics launches dazzling Operation Ajax graphic novel as free iPad download | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Cognito Comics today launched Operation Ajax, a dazzling graphic novel for iPad, in a bid to reinvent storytelling for the digital age.
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Reading in an iPad Transmedia Universe

Reading in an iPad Transmedia Universe | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Technology in the classroom is changing how children learn and how we teach. While some children are reading books about castles, others are using the DK Eyewitness App to explore castles.
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ustwo talks Papercut, iPad fiction and interactive storytelling

ustwo talks Papercut, iPad fiction and interactive storytelling | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
'While some book-apps have done well – Alice for iPad made a packet, and Faber's The Waste Land recouped in less than two months – there's a creeping sense elsewhere that apps aren't (yet) as lucrative as many publishers hoped.
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Interactive Fiction on the iPad

Interactive Fiction on the iPad | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Frotz is a platform for exploring the world of interactive fiction games.

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Dancing Digitally, With The iPad As A Stage

Dancing Digitally, With The iPad As A Stage | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan: "In theater, there’s a concept called the “fourth wall.” It refers to performances that involve the audience, breaking down the invisible “wall” between performer and spectator. A new project from Pentagram goes even further, breaking down the “fifth wall” between the performer and a digital audience."

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Terry Gilliam talks apps, iPad and interactivity

Terry Gilliam talks apps, iPad and interactivity | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
"iPads are here, apps are here: there's no way of being a Luddite any more! You have to go with the flow," says Gilliam.


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"A Charlie Brown Christmas" Makes the iPad Feel Like Magic

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" Makes the iPad Feel Like Magic | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The app captures the nostalgia of the 1965 television special, while still adding a modern and inventive twist on the children’s book app.
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[Sounds Fun!] Royal Opera House launches iPhone and iPad game

[Sounds Fun!] Royal Opera House launches iPhone and iPad game | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Show Must Go On will see players trying to overcome a host of problems while trying to stage manage their own opera or ballet...

 

[What with gaming, and VFX incorporated into sets ... @scoopit http://bit.ly/vf9Nmz ... Opera is definitely "moving with the times".  It'll be transmedia next!]

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iPads and Angry Birds Launching to Space Station

iPads and Angry Birds Launching to Space Station | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Two Apple iPads and a plush "Angry Birds" doll, based on the mobile video game, will be launching on Russian spacecraft soon, bound for the International Space Station.
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Angry Birds is now literally out of this world! Really Cool. I wonder if we can convince NASA to take a Matmi game up there ? Little bit of Pocket Warwick to keep the astronuts entertained on the long journey perhaps ?

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Games, Pop-Ups, 3D, and More – The iPad is Changing Books Forever

Games, Pop-Ups, 3D, and More – The iPad is Changing Books Forever | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"I grew up on a healthy regimen of Choose-Your-Own Adventure books, Nintendo, and role playing games, but even I am intimidated by the new brand of interactive storytelling that is flooding the iPad."

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An Evolution in Storytelling

An Evolution in Storytelling | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
It's not going to replace a book, it could amplify a book. At the end of the day it's going to be a new way to get a story.
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