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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Storytelling: digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new ways

Storytelling: digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new ways | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
As the tools available to publishers grow more sophisticated, it's up to us to experiment and see what sticks, writes Aleks Krotoski...
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Beyond music: Pop stars in the transmedia age

Beyond music: Pop stars in the transmedia age | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Many of today's top pop stars are transmedia operators to some degree, selling their music as part of their story, not as discrete art works, says Tom Ewing...
Dia Morgan Chaimovitz's curator insight, October 12, 2014 10:23 PM

This article is interesting. It's true that music artists are doing whatever they can to be the biggest celebrity that they are selling off the real reason they started in the industry, the music.

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Tips from the Masters: TFI Transmedia Lab

Tips from the Masters: TFI Transmedia Lab | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

As an extension of the New Media Fund, currently in its inaugural year, the Tribeca Film Institute teamed up with SilverDocs to present a Transmedia Lab at the Festival.

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The player IS the story: why the big publishers don't get transmedia

The player IS the story: why the big publishers don't get transmedia | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Keith Stuart: Most big video game releases now come with tie-in books, comics and even movies. But is this really about extending the story or is it just marketing?
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How to Write a Transmedia Production Bible

How to Write a Transmedia Production Bible | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Screen Australia has commissioned Gary P Hayes to write this resource as a best-practice guide to the thinking, planning, documentation and supporting materials required when developing a property across multiple platforms.
Andrea Rossi's curator insight, November 7, 2013 2:56 AM

"The Transmedia Production Bible is a document that captures key
story and design IP elements, rules of engagement, functionality and technical issues across multiple platforms, and provides an overview of the business/marketing plan."

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Detective Avenue and the French Transmedia Revolution

Detective Avenue and the French Transmedia Revolution | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

A couple months ago, someone started to post some pretty weird videos on the Facebook page of Suzelle Berthier. In one video, she was kissing someone, in another she was shoplifting, in yet another one, she was sleeping in her bedroom. Who was filming her? No one seemed to know.

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SXSW Showcases Rise of Multiplatform Storytelling and Collaborative Filmmaking

SXSW Showcases Rise of Multiplatform Storytelling and Collaborative Filmmaking | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

South By Southwest (SXSW) is an annual gathering of interactive, film and music creatives, executives and marketers in Austin. It is the ideal setting to explore multiplatform storytelling, multiscreen experiences and projects that reflect the talents of the collective.

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Cautionary Tales in Transmedia Storytelling

Cautionary Tales in Transmedia Storytelling | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
One of the greatest challenges in transmedia game development is crafting a believable story universe that persists across multiple media without tricking or endangering the game’s players.
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Artists Experiment With Interactive Music Videos

Artists Experiment With Interactive Music Videos | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
It’s all part of the growing exploration of “transmedia,” a catch-all term for tech-driven storytelling that isn’t confined to traditional formats, such as TV and movies.
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Michael Grant's Exciting Upcoming Series and Transmedia Experience

Michael Grant's Exciting Upcoming Series and Transmedia Experience | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

The missing son of a U.N. diplomat... the reemergence of a strange organization... a pair of society twins caught in the middle... this is just the beginning of "Go BZRK," a new transmedia experience from author Michael Grant.

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Monty Python's Terry Jones crowdsources funding for book

Monty Python's Terry Jones crowdsources funding for book | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Terry Jones has become the first author to gain funds for a book through a new crowdsourcing platform called Unbound...
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Transmedia 202: Further Reflections

Transmedia 202: Further Reflections | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

I've heard some gossip that Jenkins was going to issue a "new definition" of "transmedia": this is no where near as dramatic an overhaul as that, just some clarifications and reflections about definitions.

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Blending Film and Social Media: Transmedia Storytelling

Blending Film and Social Media: Transmedia Storytelling | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Transmedia Storytelling just got a whole lot sexier with The Inside Social Film Experience. Its been hailed as the first (but not last) of its kind in Hollywood. Blending film and social media, ‘Inside,’ engages the audience within real time.

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WHY “TRANSMEDIA” IS CATCHING ON (Part One)

WHY “TRANSMEDIA” IS CATCHING ON (Part One) | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

“Isaac Newton didn't discover gravity, he just named it,” one TV writer-producer quipped during a recent conversation about “transmedia.”

And so it would seem, despite a testy flame war over the term transmedia –– or perhaps because of it –– the “transmedia” movement is catching on across the media business.

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PGA Formally Recognizes 'Transmedia' Producers

PGA Formally Recognizes 'Transmedia' Producers | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The Producers Guild of America announced that it has formally christened the “transmedia producer” credit, recognizing those who manage and adapt entertainment properties that span multiple platforms.
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