Jeff Gomez: "Our love of team-ups, in fact, dates back to the Stone Age. Early man imbued all things around him with animus, and the coolest things — the sun, the moon, the ocean — were either the incarnations of, or controlled by superior beings, gods. It was just a matter of time before pantheons formed, relationships got complicated, and villains arose to challenge the benevolent"... Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Transmedia storytelling is where a story interweaves through various media so that more information is shared about the content. 
For our interview with Brian Clark of GMD Studios we slightly reworded our interview questions to “Why Not Transmedia”? 
Transmedia storytelling and marketing are hot topics for entertainment brands, independent content producers, and product and service brands. As companies explore how to reach through the maelstrom of digital channels and social media to connect with their audiences, they recognize their stories must cross platforms. 
A website that gives fans a chance to connect to their favorite TV characters is providing shows a platform to use that energy to promote the programs.. Technology News from the entertainment source: Variety. 
For those of you who have been following Guidestones: an Interactive Thriller, you already know this is a hands on storytelling experience worth checking out. If you haven't yet, you should take the time. It's one of the most unique web series out there right now. 
Want to hear a story? 6 months ago, the very first edition of Storyworld conference took place in San Francisco, bringing together a large community of multiplatform storytellers coming from all ... 
Although there are media literacy traditionalists who view technology and media literacy as frenemies, I see the two as a match made in heaven. My recent exposure to a glamorous technology fairy tale with a happy ending ("The Future of the Book") engendered high hopes for a long term romance between technology and media literacy education. 
Everyone loves to make a mess, but no one stops to think about how they get cleaned up. It's not like after every gruesome murder on Dexter the crime scene is cursed to remain a human Jackson Pollock painting. 
The Frankfurt book fair learns from the mistakes of the music industry and faces the digital transition with a promising strategy. Destinations are rich landscapes for stories. In today’s world, visitor’s stories travel across multiple-platforms, from IRL (in real life) to their smartphone’s (in real time) and back to their hotel rooms on Facebook then uploaded to Pinterest, downloaded from Instagram, and shared with their communities. This new seamless landscape between digital and real life is changing the way travel stories are experienced and how they are shared and curated in media. 
The in-game advertising industry has not had a happy few years. Back in 2002 when Massive Incorporated first brought us the ability to dynamically insert adverts into Xbox360 games the future looke... 
From advertising campaigns to online video series, the term ‘transmedia’ gets quite the work out. But what does it actually mean? |
American media scholar and pop culture expert Henry Jenkins, currently on a lecture tour of Europe, said that all content is heading in the direction of trans-media, shifting from its original state to new platforms. 
Nordic Game is a game conference. 1600 people, most of them coders, gamers and other industry people; lots of game showcases and a lot of talks on how to create and co-create and finance and market games and game content. On the transmedia track, talks have been slightly different. "Transmedia Stories – A Study of Producers, Consumers and Their Respective Roles in the Production Process of a Transmedia Project"
The research uploaded here is a a master thesis made by Cecilia Roos. This study is the final thesis of the master program Culture and Media Production at Malmö University. 
Call it "choose your own adventure" for the e-book world. 
Sports and sports media compose a gigantic global business. Neither are untouched by technology. In many respects, sports are leading the way in bringing live video and information to alternate computing devices both inside and outside the home. 
Trion has released a new making-of featurette for Defiance, its "transmedia" property that includes a sci-fi shooter MMO and a Syfy television series. 
Evan Jones is that rare combination: Creative, a great head for business, and a stand-up human bei... 
It’s time for another chapter of Complex TV to go live on MediaCommons Press—this time, the topic is Transmedia Storytelling. It builds on work I have done in recent years about how televi... 
The Immersive Writing Lab was a week-long intensive seminar and workshop series staged last year.Coming out of the IWL program, Portal Entertainment (where I’m serving as head of story development) instituted an international Storyworld writing competition for writers keen to engage with the possibilities and potential of multi-platform transmedia.
I’ve compiled my list of the top 6 tips that emerged from judging the IWL Storyworld Competition for practitioners and future proposals in this field. Some a glaringly obvious but evidently need to be said, some are more intricate and speak to the complexity of writing in this arena. The first "Transmedia Mobile Gaming" conference was being held this month in Warsaw. I was invited by Voodoodance to speak there about "Transmedia Storytelling" and to show some cases. These are the slides of my talk. 
The Fine Brothers have a long-established reputation for trying new things with web content, and this year, they're using YouTube's money to create not just a show, but a fully immersive social media experience and a full line-up of shows...
Last night I had the pleasure of conducting a digital storyelling workshop for WGA East. It seemed to go really well, though I got on the express train to Tangent City instead of sticking to my planned outline. |
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