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Marama Whyte: "'Lizzie Bennet Diaries spin-off Welcome to Sanditon premiered its first episode yesterday – but that’s not all. Catch up on everything Sanditon with our handy guide."
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Desdemona Bandini: "Not just a new film, “The Cosmonaut” is a labor of love four years in the making, crowdsourced and created with a plan to test the boundaries of transmedia content distribution worldwide."
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Interesting! 
Digital Cinema in Transition's curator insight,
May 11, 10:47 AM
Also see our digital cnema study at http://www.digitalcinema.ca 
Vivalist's curator insight,
May 13, 8:32 AM
That will be interesting to check them out in a while and see if it caught up, found its audience, and eventually generated worthy user interaction. Because that's what it always come down to: is there a perceivable added-value to all these? - except the PR bragging right of doing things differently. Delete the scoop?
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Laura Sterritt: "It is often the less well known, independent musicians who are willing to take chances on new media as artistic expression. The unfortunate Catch-22 is that these musicians or their record labels are usually unable to fund such endeavors"...
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Who wouldn't support artists who say they occupy "some kind of avant-garde anime stoner pop realm"? Delete the scoop?
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Randy Astle: "TFI has been supporting digital, transmedia, and multimedia projects for years through programs like its New Media Fund and hackathons, and now TFI’s Director of Digital Initiatives Ingrid Kopp (who was recently interviewed by Filmmaker) has found a way to bring some projects into a physical space to coincide with the film festival in lower Manhattan."
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A look at the 5 interactive video projects projects from the Tribeca Film Festival's Storyscapes. The image above is from Empire Uncut. Delete the scoop?
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"With this second post in our lessons learned series, Emily Treat discusses what went right and what went wrong in terms of initial concepts and content for the Half the Sky game."
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This is proving to be an excellent series of articles. I can thoroughly recommend them to anyone interested in game design. You'll find part 1 here. Delete the scoop?
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Asi Burak details what went right and wrong in terms of executive production for Half the Sky Movement: The Game.
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
A fascinating article. If you'd like to know more about the game itself, check out Half The Sky Movement Is A Facebook Game For (Spare) Change over at Fast Company or play it on facebook. 
Karen B Wehner's curator insight,
April 15, 8:44 AM
Generous and fascinating post-mortem on important ''for good'' game seeking to boost literacy and gender equality in development nations.
Karen B Wehner's curator insight,
April 15, 8:45 AM
Generous and fascinating post-mortem on a high-profile ''game for good' focused on literacy and gender equality in developing countries. Delete the scoop?
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V Renée: "Have Nicolás Alcalá and his team at Riot Cinema Collective discovered the future of filmmaking?" ...
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A great read, especially towards the end of the interview when the film's distribution strategy is discussed. 
Carmenne K. Thapliyal's curator insight,
April 13, 4:52 AM
About creative freedom and distribution strategy. Would love to go for this one 
Michelle Bishop's curator insight,
April 13, 9:22 AM
Very cool project... an inventive way to not only get a film made but also to involve people from around the world. 
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight,
April 13, 10:26 AM
The Cosmonaut is an epic story. Delete the scoop?
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Type:Rider is a multiplatform game whose name evokes its basic plan, a mix of mechanical writing (“type” of the typewriter) with the idea of a race (the “rider”).
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One to watch! Delete the scoop?
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Peter Smith: "Defiance is both a TV series and a video game, designed to support each other. The game launches today, the TV series in two weeks."
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In case you've missed all the coverage to date, here's an excellent article explaining what the transmedia experience called Defiance is all about. Delete the scoop?
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Randy Astle: "Tuesday night Facebook hosted a panel discussion about social issue-oriented transmedia at their office in midtown Manhattan" ...
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Transmedia for good .... 
Luca Brigada's curator insight,
March 23, 5:08 PM
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Michael Gallant: "Visit the website meetverastark.com and you’ll learn about one of America’s greatest actresses, a woman referred to as a teacher, singer, lover, civil rights activist, and femme fatale. [...] The only catch? Vera Stark isn’t real."
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Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, journeys into transmedia storytelling with the help of the Black Women Playwrights’ Group (BWPG) and Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) ... 
Deanya Lattimore's curator insight,
March 8, 7:51 AM
Nice way to blur the lines between theater and short story, when both are "novelized" (Bakhtin) by digital media. Delete the scoop?
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Kirk Hamilton: "This video essay, by Dr. Drew Morton from Texas A&M University-Texarkana, takes a look at how transmedia can fail (e.g. The Matrix) and how it succeeded with Scott Pilgrim."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Dr. Drew Morton on Scott Pilgrim: a unique transmedia experience in which visual style is the glue uniting comic, film & video game. 
Debbie Elicksen (LION)'s curator insight,
February 22, 9:09 AM
How can multi-platform storytelling be a bad thing? Delete the scoop?
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"Clockwork Watch is an immersive participatory story set in a retro-futurist vision of Victorian England. The narrative is played out across graphic novels, interactive promenade theatre, freeform role-play, online adventures, an interactive book, and a feature film."
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"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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This article contains some great insights for anyone involved in building a fan community. The other two articles in the series are also well worth a read: Part 1 Executive Production and Part 2 Initial Concepting and Design. Delete the scoop?
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Brielleariana: "Transmedia is such a new concept that I had to physically add it to my Word document dictionary to avoid the stupid red lines" ...
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This is a fascinating post, coming as it does, from a fan's perspective. Darceny is a website that acts as both a book and viewing club: "the place to discuss Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and its modern day adaptation, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries." 
Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight,
May 6, 6:26 AM
A great way to teach using trains edit storytelling. 
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's comment,
May 6, 10:15 AM
I love Word dictionary updates as tiny markers of substantive change--I had to add 'cocreation' and 'cocreator' to mine along with transmedia. Interestingly, it already knew 'prosumer.'
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's curator insight,
May 6, 10:32 AM
I love Word dictionary updates as tiny markers of substantive change--I had to add 'cocreation' and 'cocreator' to mine along with transmedia. Interestingly, it already knew 'prosumer.' Delete the scoop?
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Dean Takahashi: "John Vignocchi shows off the latest with Disney Infinity in a video interview. He says that Disney isn't just copying Skylanders."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
A fabulously in-depth look at Infinity, the new toy-game hybrid from Disney. 
Reina Díaz's comment,
May 8, 10:36 PM
Y multiplataforma (aunque sus adaptaciones vayan con todo y el destroce de la historia original. ¿O eso ya los vuelve transmedia?)
Sandra Argüelles's comment,
May 9, 12:18 AM
Claro, Disney tenía que estar presente en el tema, muchos de sus múltiples y variados productos responden a las características de lo Transmedia, Crossmedia y Multiplataforma
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Aymar Jean Christian: "Soon after the Kickstarter campaign for "Veronica Mars" sparked a ton of conversations and debates, another woman-led project took the crowdfunding site by storm, raising its $60,000 goal soon after it launched."
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This is a fabulous transmedia work and thoroughly deserves its success. Delete the scoop?
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Diane Wild: "When I read the media release about Arctic Air's transmedia extravaganza finale, I had two thoughts" ...
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I found this an interesting read, even though I'm not in an area where Arctic Air screens.
Debbie Elicksen (LION)'s curator insight,
April 17, 10:09 PM
CBC discovers transmedia and seems to think its ahead of the curve. Delete the scoop?
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Susan Karlin: "In Defiance, the Syfy cable channel and Trion Worlds gaming company tackle a never-before-tried $100 million transmedia experiment--a crossover TV show and an MMO game that are interdependent and independent of one another. Showrunner Kevin Murphy tells us how he straddled the two worlds."
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There's been a lot of buzz about this project, and a lot of articles about its gaming aspects. But now, articles are starting to appear which give insight from a television perspective. Here's a good one. Delete the scoop?
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Noah J Nelson: "The massively multiplayer game EVE Online is a siren song for sci-fi fans looking to lose themselves in a starfaring society" ...
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With the new EVE interactive timeline player narratives can become canon, can become part of the world's official backstory. Is this the ultimate in fan engagement? Delete the scoop?
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Macaulay New Media Lab: "The more I engage with this fledgling series, the more I find out about the qualities of a good transmedia story. It isn’t enough to merely adapt a story for screen and print, there needs to be a compelling reason for it to bridge multiple mediums" ...
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An interesting, but to-the-point, analogy ....
Debbie Elicksen (LION)'s curator insight,
April 5, 10:46 AM
Comparing storytellers to drug dealers is certainly an attention grabber. Delete the scoop?
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Elize Morgan: "Through live-action theatrical performances, online video, social networks, and a myriad of websites, the project [ZED.TO] explored what it might be like to live in a future where a corporation called ByoLogyc redefines what it means to be human through "lifestyle biotech" products."
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An interesting postmortem of the transmedia experience, ZedTO. Delete the scoop?
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Kyle Burton: "[Toronto filmmaker Ann Shin] and her small crew of a camera operator and sound technician followed an agent called "Dragon" from the North Korea-China border all the way to Bangkok with refugees who had high hopes for a better life in South Korea."
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An interesting look at the execution of a transmedia project under daring circumstances.
Debbie Elicksen (LION)'s curator insight,
March 22, 11:08 AM
Improvising techniques and technology often makes almost as good a story as the story itself. Delete the scoop?
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James Carter: "After five seasons, two universes, and multiple timelines, Fringe ended its run January 18, 2013 on Fox. I’m proud to say I stuck with this show to the very end. More than anything – like other fans – I connected with the cast’s phenomenal performances. When the sci-fi was good, the show was great. When there was more “fi” than “sci,” the actors buoyed the show to the next peculiar portal."
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A great case-study! Thank you James Carter :)
Asil's curator insight,
February 3, 11:11 PM
Loved this show ... it had some 'jump the shark' moments, but it was one of the best scifi series to come along since BSG. I will miss the characters.
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