A major challenge facing the transmedia narrative designer is integrating multiple media into an effective story. Particularly important is ensuring the visual design fits with and enhances the story structure, ensuring a coherent and cohesive narrative. Films, comics/graphic novels, photo essays, and other visual forms of communication can all provide insights into the key visual design principles that are needed in transmedia storytelling.
These two video clips from 2008 focus on the visual design of immersive experiences for film audiences. It is still relevant to transmedia storytelling today. (And an interesting question…Block mentions the emergence of “5D” and wonders what that might be. Is it perhaps something that comes out of transmedia narrative design.)
Bruce Block Explores Immersive Design – Part 1
Bruce Block Explores Immersive Design – Part 2