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Mike Vogel: "City of Refuge is an ambitious transmedia project about a fictional small town that serves as an alternative to prison, where criminals are reformed and safe from law-enforcement. But if they leave the town, they risk being chased down by bounty hunters. I interviewed producer Houston Howard about City of Refuge."
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Welcome to Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age …
Here, you'll not only find articles on the many facets of transmedia storytelling, but also articles exploring the creative and technical achievements of individual platforms. If you would like to know more about my approach to curating this topic, then please follow the title link to Scoop.it's Lord of Curation Series. I really enjoy your support and hope you find the articles that I share as interesting and useful as I do.
Thank you Scoop.it for the recognition and acknowledgment, it is very much appreciated. 
Johan Lindblom's curator insight,
January 9, 2016 2:06 AM
Storytelling for the digital age as immersive storyworlds.
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Alex Kane: '“Today’s most innovative artists are always looking for new ways to push boundaries, with their music and their means of connecting with fans,” says [Lucas] Wilson. “[...] We’re used to going to concerts, but very few of us have actually been on stage. We’ve grown accustomed to hearing from our favorite artists on social media, but rarely do those words come directly from their mouths. VR is changing all that. It’s the most personal way of connecting with your fans.”' 
@FernandoCarrion's curator insight,
August 5, 2016 12:14 PM
Alex Kane: '“Today’s most innovative artists are always looking for new ways to push boundaries, with their music and their means of connecting with fans,” says [Lucas] Wilson. “[...] We’re used to going to concerts, but very few of us have actually been on stage. We’ve grown accustomed to hearing from our favorite artists on social media, but rarely do those words come directly from their mouths. VR is changing all that. It’s the most personal way of connecting with your fans.”'
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Stephanie Coats: "Bernie Su has already changed the way millions of people watch television and he’s done it without ever putting a show on a major network."
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Adi Robertson and Ben Popper: "Reitman worked with Utah startup The Void as it developed its VR companion to the upcoming reboot, and we got the chance to chat with him about emotional storytelling, technology, tickling digital ghosts, and bringing pornography to high-end virtual reality."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Mignon Fogarty: "Snapchat is no longer just a private messaging tool for kids" ....
DRC: These are useful tips for all Snapchat storytellers :) 
Bart van Maanen's curator insight,
June 29, 2016 11:06 AM
Goed om te weten als je een Snapchat verhaal wilt maken. Zeker als je - zoals ik - er net mee begint. ;-)
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Emily Buder: "We go behind the scenes of the first Snapchat movie, a real-time horror flick." 
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's curator insight,
June 27, 2016 11:57 AM
Sickhouse - the first SnapChat-based film--brought to mind Blair Witch Project. Both are revolutionary in their use of media to capture authenticity, breaking the fourth wall, and capturing the audience's imagination by fiddling with reality vs. fiction. Using SnapChat is a clever device to make the film timely and raw.
First adopters always have the advantage of challenging the audience's existing mental models about where and how reality ends and fiction begins. This is a nice metaphor for social technologies as an extension of the social space rather than "some other place." It is exactly that understanding that made the initial launch so powerful.
SnapChat also demands a 'Heminwayesqe' brevity and succinctness to scene construction, especially in real time. Creating a horror film is a bit of a cheat as all that heightened anxiety increases the "need to know" among the audience that encourages following the story through. Nevertheless, with so many moving parts, it makes sense to use a genre with wide socioemotional appeal.
The irony is that it didn't all disappear in the SnapChat way, and thus challenges how we understand SnapChat as well. I have wondered for some time, given the creativity that SnapChat unleashes, how long people will be willing to just let their mini-artworks go into the ether. When we create, it is part of us. We have a long history of documenting acts of creativity because it is how we share our most human qualities. 
Minna Kilpeläinen's curator insight,
July 2, 2016 5:52 AM
Snapchat movie Sickhouse was a real success. "Everyone was hooked. People trust that what they are seeing on their snap stories is real", said he director Hannah Macpherson. One key was to cast a protagonist who already was a social media pop star (Andrea Russett). She posted the videos from her own account.
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Stuart Dredge: "Get started with VR on your iPhone or Android phone with these 100 apps, spanning films, games, news and 360-degree photo-sharing" ....
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Simon Staffans: "[...] how can we chase our story more efficiently? Here are three tools for anyone to use, that might put you on the right track – the only thing you need is a willingness to challenge your story as it stands today" ...
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Joe Carmichael: "It’s still in the proof-of-concept phase. But we’re sold."
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Nicole LaPorte: "Having established itself as a critical part of movie-marketing campaigns, Wattpad is now looking to produce its own entertainment."
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's curator insight,
June 15, 2016 12:56 PM
For those of you who believed the written word was dead, not so fast! The unending appetite for good stories and Wattpad as a vehicle for storytellers (think YouTube for readers) provides an obvious entry point for marketers who can craft compelling brand narratives. The value of storytelling in text is that is that it lets the reader supply the visual storyworld through their imagination, instantly turning them into stakeholders.
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Emily Buder: "A director's sci-fi algorithm wrote a brilliant sci-fi short film."
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Jeremy Adam Smith: "We know in our gut when we’re hearing a good story—and research is starting to explain why."
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Bernard Boo: "Can great, gimmick-less storytelling be achieved in virtual reality? Two leading studios are paving the way for VR storytelling." |
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Adrienne LaFrance: "A machine mapped the most frequently used emotional trajectories in fiction, and compared them with the ones readers like best." 
Debbie Elicksen 's curator insight,
November 27, 2016 1:02 PM
A group of researchers, from the University of Vermont and the University of Adelaide collected computer-generated story arcs for nearly 2,000 works of fiction, classifying each into one of six core types of narratives (based on what happens to the protagonist).
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Brian Seth Hurst: "Producing for VR is a virtual hack-a-thon right now but hopefully this primer will give you some insights into the production process, the technology and the workflow."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Josh Miller: "With lenses and filters, the ephemeral social giant is halfway there already" ....
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Alejandro Dinsmore: "Chris Milk, one of the leading creators in the VR space is moving away from thinking about VR as a medium in which the author tells a story, and toward thinking about it as a medium in which viewers can, for the first time, step directly into the world of the creator."
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Chris O'Falt and Sarah Colvin: "IndieWire examines how much money, crew, time and equipment it took to shoot the 34 Competition Pilots that screened in Denver. [....] What we learned was that shooting an indie pilot is not terribly different than shooting the micro-budget features that find their way to film festivals."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Mona Lalwani: "Storytelling in virtual reality has yet to take shape. While the simulated world of gaming has proved the visual capabilities of the medium, few have taken a crack at the art of building a compelling narrative."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Elena Cresci: "Bree was a funny, friendly 16-year-old video blogger with a strange family. But all was not what it seemed. Ten years on, we revisit YouTube’s first viral sensation" .... 
Roxane Lechevalier's curator insight,
January 12, 2017 2:13 AM
Une fausse vloggueuse qui s'est servie du format pour montrer la tension entre fiction et réalité
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Jesse Damiani: "Virtual Reality! It's amazing! It's terrifying! It's the future! Nothing will ever be the same!" 
The Pulse's curator insight,
April 12, 2017 1:11 AM
As VR becomes more mainstream, here are some tips on how to tell a story in the medium... 
Daniel Collins's curator insight,
April 12, 2017 1:12 AM
As VR becomes more mainstream, here are some tips on how to tell a story in the medium...
David Stapleton's curator insight,
July 8, 2017 4:41 PM
The future holds our business for us to have
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Derek Thompson: "The problem for Hollywood isn’t that audiences are ignoring sequels. The problem for Hollywood is that audiences are ignoring everything that isn’t a sequel, adaptation, or reboot. The market for films based on stories that aren’t already famous is threadbare. These sort of stories exist in entertainment, but consumers, and particularly young consumers, are looking for them outside of darkened theaters."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Caty McCarthy: "Before Winston, a glasses-clad gorilla scientist, was leaping across maps to crush his enemies in the chaotic multiplayer battles of Overwatch, he was merely a young ape with big aspirations and an affinity for peanut butter. But you wouldn’t know that from merely playing the game."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Adam Rosenberg: "How do you turn a video game series with a 20-year history and tens of millions of fans into a cohesive movie? According to Warcraft director Duncan Jones, you go back to the start."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Mădălina Ciobanu: "Beautiful interactives can be built even when you don't have a whole army of developers, designers and animators behind you" ...
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Biology of Story: "Transmedia Producer Jeff Gomez discusses creating story worlds that expand across multiple media platforms." 
Rick Shaughnessy's curator insight,
June 14, 2016 11:51 AM
Just an awesome thinker laying out the framework
KyoKo's curator insight,
November 26, 2017 8:53 AM
Transmedia Producer Jeff Gomez discusses creating story worlds that expand across multiple media platforms.
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An excellent interview with City of Refuge producer, Houston Howard. It's a great snapshot of the transmedia development process.