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Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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The Digital Rocking Chair
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Michael Grothaus: '"Our responsibility is to produce meaningful and playful toys for the kids, and also to help kids take the Star Wars universe and expand it in their own play plans," says [Steve] Evans. Unsurprisingly, in order to achieve that, he and his team work closely with the creative minds behind the franchise.' 
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight,
October 3, 2015 1:57 PM
"It was like a childhood dream," says Evans.
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Ethan Gilsdorf: "Small productions are becoming better—and more professional—than ever. But the falling price of good equipment is only part of the magic."
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"The science fiction classic is 20 years old. Lisa Granshaw reports on the franchise's growth and fanbase, and the buzz--and mixed feelings--surrounding its forthcoming big-screen reboot."
Camila Lorena Longo's curator insight,
September 1, 2014 1:26 PM
There’s more than one reason why Stargate succeeded in keeping and growing a loyal following. Actor David Hewlett who portrayed Dr. Rodney McKay in the TV series believes one of them is timing. The Internet was growing around the time ofSG-1, giving fans a way to share their passion and spread the word.
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight,
September 3, 2014 2:24 PM
There’s more than one reason why Stargate succeeded in keeping and growing a loyal following. Actor David Hewlett who portrayed Dr. Rodney McKay in the TV series believes one of them is timing. Click to read full story.
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Dan Soloman: "There's a lot riding on the success or failure of Veronica Mars as a commercial entity--but all Rob Thomas cares about is whether or not the movie works for the fans."
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"The plots of Sherlock and Doctor Who are being shaped by their fans – but hit shows must appeal to a wide audience as well as a narrow band of obsessives, says Mark Lawson" ...
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James Martin: "MediaCity Finland's Staffans talks co-creation with Carri Bugbee, who brought Mad Men's Peggy Olson to life on Twitter" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Another great article from Simon Staffans.
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Chris Baker: "Recognizing that the world of fan fiction has produced a bona fide blockbuster, Amazon is now turning fanfic from a grey market to a sanctioned revenue opportunity with Kindle Worlds."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
If you're a writer of fan fiction then I suggest you also check out: What Fans Should Know About Amazon's Kindle Worlds Program from the Organization for Transformative Works.
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight,
June 2, 2013 3:29 AM
A new initiative from Amazon called Kindle Worlds, introduced yesterday, is offering fanfic authors a cut of the sales when their works are published through the program. Amazon’s first partner in this project is Alloy Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros TV Group, which is providing the licenses to the franchises Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries.
Very interesting indeed - 
JudithBriles's curator insight,
June 11, 2013 10:39 AM
I wonder what Fifty shades of money to the lucky authors will look like!
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Aurore Gallarino: "The storytelling fan sometimes goes beyond the fictional environment when they don’t just write follow-ups or missing scenes for a work but go beyond that and create content as if it was straight out of the universe." DRC: When fan communities embrace the principle of storytelling 1/3 can be found here and Do it yourself: fan community “pirate” productions 2/3 can be found here.
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Damien Walter: "Science fiction authors have long understood the power of a solid fanbase that knows how to connect and grow through new technology. Mainstream writers, take note" ...
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David Radd: "Gaming has been called the creative medium that asks the most out of its fans and it's difficult to argue with that"...
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Mathew Klickstein: "It all comes down to something called "parasocial interactions" and why we attach so fondly to the warming glow of the screen—any screen."
EntreCulturas's curator insight,
November 5, 2017 11:45 AM
Un artículo interesante sobre la película The Room que puede explicar el fenómeno de los fandoms. La interacción entre el personaje Jack (niño) y su caricatura favorita explica la psicología detrás de los fandoms y cómo , quebrando la cuarta pared, se crea un sentido de interacción verdadera.
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Owen Duffy: "The original card game has 20 million players worldwide. Now, its publishers are revisiting its leading characters’ origins in an effort to get bigger still" ...
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lightninglouie: "You've probably noticed this already, but it's a really good time to be a fan of genre stuff. The past decade-and-a-half has seen an explosion of movies based on beloved novels and comics, and most of them have been pretty good" ...
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James Whitbrook: "When a franchise is around for four decades, it can get impossibly unwieldy to try and grasp its lore — and Star Wars canon is no exception. Here's a guide to the origins of Star Wars Canon, the rise and fall of one of the most prominent Expanded Universes in fiction, and where the saga stands with Disney today."
Mychial Emmanuel's curator insight,
February 14, 2015 6:39 AM
STAR WARS - Not the beginning, not the end - let peace reign in the new heavens a new motion picture series from H.I.M Prince mychial to gross over £144000.000.000 at premier nollywood.
CAN YOU DIG IT!
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"Seven years after the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Caroline Siede looks back on the book series that defined a generation."
Jeni Mawter's curator insight,
July 24, 2014 9:55 PM
One Boy became One Generation. How this has shaped what we read today.
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Devon Maloney: "Regardless of how much influence fans may seem to wield or how close the fans and creators may seem in a today’s era of meet-and-greets and panels, a chasm still exists between the people who make shows and the people who ardently love them."
Asil's curator insight,
January 26, 2014 2:41 PM
As friendly as that fan-creator relationship may seem, it’s actually a delicate thing. And in the end, Zubernis and Larsen say, it’s mostly artifice. “[The relationship] seems a lot more reciprocal and closer than it is, which is an artifact of the way social media, especially Twitter, makes fans feel,” says Zubernis. “I always stay on Twitter when a Supernatural episode is airing, and the actors and the writers and directors are usually on [Twitter], and I see what it does to fans when somebody answers their tweet. There’s a need, I think, to feel like, ‘They’re listening to me; I’m important.’ That’s a normal psychological response, but it’s not actually true; it’s wishful thinking. It’s a constructed intimacy that’s not really intimate at all.” 
Laura Brown's comment,
January 26, 2014 4:23 PM
It's all about sales. In the end it is phoney and leaves me feeling it was all meaningless, empty and that I have just been used. Selling autographs is just one tiny step away from the social media puffing up being done these days.
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Joe Berkowitz: "Agency Sincerely Truman offers four storytelling rules to JJ Abrams in the hopes that he will make his Star Wars sequel more like the original movies."
David Collet's curator insight,
October 2, 2013 12:20 AM
For those who saw this the first time through - and those who wish they had. 
Nathan Schultz's curator insight,
November 25, 2015 4:49 PM
In an open letter to JJ Abrams, ad agency Sincerely Truman offers some advice to the future Star Wars director on various storytelling elements that he can use to improve his movies. This article is interesting for two reasons: 1. It's about Star Wars, and
2. It shows how an ad agency, by tapping into consumer demographics, has created a list of things that the public wants to see in their Star Wars movies. In short, Star Wars is being treated like a product, which the director has to shape into a form that is more palatable to audiences. In short, marketing is affecting storytelling.
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Simon Staffans: "The Author is no longer in control. No matter if audience interaction and participation is planned for or not, if the content is great enough and make people relate to it enough, people will start to engage and co-create" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
This makes an interesting companion piece to yesterday's scoop.it post where Steven Spielberg and George Lucas discuss the difference between narrative media and interactive media.
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Christopher Shamburg: "My first tact is to legitimize the practice of creative appropriation by having the class explore it in literary history—from Shakespeare, who hardly has an original plot, to Chaucer’s use of Homer, to Milton’s ‘missing scenes’ from the Bible, to more contemporary works such as John Gardner’s Grendel and the Geraldine Brooks’ March, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Another interesting reminder [see yesterday's scoop Da Vinci on Transmedia] that modern storytelling techniques actually have deep cultural roots.
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March 6, 2013 2:18 AM
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'Aurore Galliano offers a new perspective as part of a series of articles which provide a complete overview of certain fan practices, many of them related to storytelling, and their transmedia potential. She brings us a look at “fan community story factories” and explains “expanded universes: home-made franchises”.' DRC: When fan communities embrace the principle of storytelling 1/3 can be found here.
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Aurore Gallarino: "The aim of this series of articles is to provide a complete overview of certain fan practices which can be considered as potential transmedia practices, in particular in terms of storytelling."
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Christy Admiraal: "There’s no question that anyone who considers himself or herself part of a fandom will have a different read on a piece of media from someone on the outside—whether it’s due to taking in all supplemental material, shipping a certain pairing, participating in fan theorizing, or some combination thereof—but exactly how does their experience differ from a reader or regular viewer who’s never dived any deeper into non-canonical material?"