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Transmedia: The Three Flavors

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We’ve got our definition of transmedia storytelling which is: the crafting of stories that unfold across multiple media platforms in ...
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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan: DIY Transmedia Through Crowd Sourcing

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan: DIY Transmedia Through Crowd Sourcing | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

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"?

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FIRST PERSON | How Lars Von Trier's User-Generated Experiment 'Gesamt' Inspired an Obstructed Texas Filmmaker (NSFW Video)

FIRST PERSON | How Lars Von Trier's User-Generated Experiment 'Gesamt' Inspired an Obstructed Texas Filmmaker (NSFW Video) | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Justin D. Hilliard: "I was in a pretty dry place creatively as an artist. I thought that “Gesamt” may be just what I needed."

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[Crowd Sourced Storytelling] Dead Inside: a zombie novel told in the form of found notes

[Crowd Sourced Storytelling] Dead Inside: a zombie novel told in the form of found notes | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Mark Frauenfelder: "Dead Inside: Do Not Enter was crowd-written by Lost Zombies, a zombie themed social network and it tells the by-now familiar story of a zombapocalyptic virus that whips across the planet, but presents it in the form of realistic-looking notes written by people trying to survive and help other uninfected people survive"...

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Crowdsourced Movie Studio Creates a Bold New Kind of Sci-Fi Series

Crowdsourced Movie Studio Creates a Bold New Kind of Sci-Fi Series | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
A new sci-fi web series teams Hollywood visual effects artists with a global scattering of up-and-coming animators, all of whom are working for free to craft CGI elements for a wigged-out futuristic saga ...


Looking for ways to get that project off the ground?  Then this article is well worth a read.

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Group Storytelling: 5 Best-In-Class Examples

Group Storytelling: 5 Best-In-Class Examples | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"Storytellers are mixing communities to create narratives across mediums. This process often involves sharing with a group or co-creating stories together"...

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Behind The Ultimate Crowdsourced Film--"Star Wars Uncut"

Behind The Ultimate Crowdsourced Film--"Star Wars Uncut" | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
"Star Wars Uncut" is a Frankensteined love letter of absurdities--and that’s just how mastermind Casey Pugh wanted it. Warning--once you start, you can't stop watching.
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Case Study: Iron Sky

Case Study: Iron Sky | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Tero Kaukomaa, Producer, Blind Spot pictures, explains how crowdsourcing ignited a relationship between the filmmakers and the audience that helped to create and finance the sci-fi comedy epic Iron Sky.

 

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How HiveMind’s Will Wright plans to crowdsource your happiness (interview)

How HiveMind’s Will Wright plans to crowdsource your happiness (interview) | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Will Wright’s games from SimCity to The Sims have sold more than 100 million units. That’s why people are paying attention to his new startup and game idea, HiveMind...

 

[A recent update can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/hivemind-the-sims-will-wright_n_1179594.html]

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Alternate Reality Gaming – Crowdsourcing the Game!

Alternate Reality Gaming – Crowdsourcing the Game! | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
To me, Alternate Reality Games are a really clever combination of narrative and user generated content that becomes the game itself...
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Iron Sky Team Crowdsources Alien Designs for Jeremiah Harm

Iron Sky Team Crowdsources Alien Designs for Jeremiah Harm | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Hugh Hart: "The inventive Finnish filmmakers want you to design ass-kicking extraterrestrials for their next sci-fi flick."

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CFC - ideaBOOST: The Ghost Town Project [#transmedia]

CFC - ideaBOOST: The Ghost Town Project [#transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Canada is home to many groundbreaking transmedia initiatives and projects.  The Ghost Town Project, on ideaBOOST, being one of them and well worth supporting.


Described as "a Kickstarter for business development,"  ideaBOOST. is an innovative business and creative development lab for digital entertainment.  To learn more, click here for an excellent Marketwire post by Aaron Broverman.

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The Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto

The Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Tiffany Shlain: "As a filmmaker who hardly shoots anything and is primarily into remixing and recontextualizing images, this explosion of online video was not only a much bigger candy store than I had ever dreamed of, it also completely changed the way I make films."

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Beckinfield -- the Haunted Town Where the Audience Creates the Story

Beckinfield -- the Haunted Town Where the Audience Creates the Story | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
A website that presents an ongoing sci-fi series about the town in a format unlike any TV you've ever seen...

 

[I really like this concept, and Nick De Martino's article provides great background material on the genesis of this project.  It's also worth checking out the Mashable article @scoopit http://bit.ly/w27sIs]

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Meet Beckinfield, a YouTube Show With 4,000 Actors [PICS]

Meet Beckinfield, a YouTube Show With 4,000 Actors [PICS] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Beckinfield is like a soap opera where anyone can be an actor. Three minute recaps are posted once-per-week on theatrics.com.
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Collaborative Documentary Weaves Stories of Egyptian Revolution

Collaborative Documentary Weaves Stories of Egyptian Revolution | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
About 400 people gathered in Tahrir Square Thursday to launch a new kind of documentary about the Egyptian revolution.
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[This is cool!] Thomas Dolby Announces Time Capsule Tour

[This is cool!] Thomas Dolby Announces Time Capsule Tour | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Fans will be able to walk up and step into the Time Capsule to make their own fully produced and effected digital 30-second video clip. The clips will then be automatically uploaded and viewable on a brand-new YouTube channelalong with the individual user’s own Facebook and Twitter pages.
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An Ever-Changing Game, Designed and Written By its Players? Sounds Good.

An Ever-Changing Game, Designed and Written By its Players? Sounds Good. | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The idea of user-generated content is nothing new, and success at implementing the concept has ranged from the niche (inFamous 2) to the wildly successful (Minecraft).
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Playing with Fire Wants to Crowdsource the (First?) Good Video Game Movie

Playing with Fire Wants to Crowdsource the (First?) Good Video Game Movie | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Even though many directors clearly play video games-Zack Snyder, Guillermo Del Toro and Christopher Nolan come to mind—and acknowledge them as a creative enrterprise, there still hasn't been a film that compellingly channels the appeal of the medium.
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