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Successful TV dramas are unfolding one episode at a time, and procedurals are taking notes
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Personally, I prefer shows that balance serial and episodic storytelling, and this article nicely captures the pros and cons of each approach. Delete the scoop?
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Omar Kattan: "This excellent video by Story Worldwide has been featured on Brand Stories for a while now. Not sure if you’ve seen it? If you haven’t, it’s definitely worth your time" ... Delete the scoop?
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sunilagni: "Within any form of entertainment lies numerous narratives, designed to engage the audience. Television shows, books and films are all examples of entertainment that utilize plot development and characters to develop a storyline and convey some sort of message to the audience" ... Delete the scoop?
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Robert Niles: "This is a race to extend narrative from individual rides into every facet of the park experience, where visitors have the chance to become actors in their own adventure" ... Via Tina Stock Delete the scoop?
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Kendall Whitehouse: 'Disney’s Marvel Studios has been preparing the audience for this film for several years. After the closing credits of 2008′s Iron Man, an extra scene appears in which Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) encounters S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who states: “I’m here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative.”' Delete the scoop?
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“A linear story had a linear workflow, but now we’re in a nonlinear immersive space,” explained production designer Alex McDowell at a recent Flux 5D event titled “Digital Design and World-building in the Narrative Media Landscape”... Delete the scoop?
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An assessment tool for narrative, social action, participatory design, and critical ethnography. DRC: You can read more on "What Makes a Successful Transmedia Story?" over at Lina Srivastava's blog. Delete the scoop?
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An interview with transmedia writer and narrative designer Christy Marx. Her works have spanned from film and television, to comic book and video games.
[A great interview on both platform specific and transmedia storytelling.] Delete the scoop?
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A look at the various narrative structures of interactive documentaries. Delete the scoop?
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Known as the critically-acclaimed narrative designer of Company of Heroes, founder of The Narrative Design Explorer, and Chief Creative Wizard and Director of NarrWare, Stephen Dinehart is a man who loves stories and is passionate about seeing them told in video games. 
Transmedia Ready's comment,
January 12, 2012 12:15 PM
Je transmets au Maître Dinehart il sera content il adore être suivi en Europe ;-)
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An excellent story is often compelling because of its layers. Each layer reveals a new concept or an arc that compels the reader or viewer to continue their narrative journey... Delete the scoop?
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The R&D Prototyping team has recently built an internal prototype for BBC Vision called the Mythology Engine. It's a proof-of-concept for a website that represents BBC drama on the web... Delete the scoop?
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How do you construct a transmedia narrative? Does it differ from stories told in film, books, TV shows, computer games, etc. until today? Yes and no, in my opinion. Delete the scoop?
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Sergei Dragunov's curator insight,
January 14, 8:05 AM
At last we have started our new project based on animated scenes. But we realy want to transform it into a transmedia reality. Now i trying to find some references about this new style of storytelling. Here is one realy good presentation Delete the scoop?
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Laura Sterritt: "[...] at the very core of transmedia storytelling—or storytelling of any kind—is the need for narrative, content, and characters. Does this mean musicians who lack story are at a loss? No. The lack of narrative is a narrative" ... Delete the scoop?
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Mark Wilson: "The branching narratives of interactive books are logistical nightmares. That is, until one company released this free writing tool" ... Delete the scoop?
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Keith Stuart: Rockstar has turned its ex-cop anti-hero into a credible character. So does it matter that he's also a frenzied killer? Delete the scoop?
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Randy Finch: "As my students will tell you, I am keenly interested in the role "theme" will play in the New World of cross platform storytelling." Delete the scoop?
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Arnau Gifreu Castells: "Mixing documentary (non-fiction) and game (fiction) seems a strategy that many interactive documentary producers are considering, because the fact of reality combined with a structure that includes the users and put themselves at the heart of the action, creates a much more hyper and immersed scenario for the interactive documentary and its participants"... Delete the scoop?
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"Inspired by much of the latest discussion around narrative and games, I’ve been thinking about interactivity and its place in transmedia. For me that means understanding and managing audience expectations."
[When choosing your transmedia storytelling platforms, Sara suggests taking into account both your narrative needs and an audience's expectation of the level of interaction provided by those platforms. It's good advice and the article contains some great specifics.] Delete the scoop?
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"Months ago I ran across a description of 'the heroine's journey,' a counterpart to the hero's journey"...
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Actions can also be meaningful in trans/cross-media projects. An example is the film Untraceable. If you watch the first part of the trailer, you’ll see a website and its significance mentioned...
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We are drawn to structure in our stories simply because our lives have no discernable structure of their own... Delete the scoop?
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The first diagram in this post presents a virtuous circle for an interactive storyworld that binds the story to social discovery and advocacy. The questions that the narrative designer or transmedia storyteller asks herself are... Delete the scoop?
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Siobhan O’Flynn & Karine Halpern's excellent slide presentation from StoryWorld Conference & Expo November 2, 2011 Delete the scoop?
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