I talk with Peter Usagi about how changing technology will impact storytelling in this interview he recorded with me in July, 2012. We also talk about my thoughts on user interaction versus user engagement in transmedia storytelling.Continue Reading
Responsive design is a must-have feature for today’s transmedia projects. There’s nothing worse that using your smartphone to access a web page that is a key element of a transmedia story that has captured your attention and have poor design make it impossible to read the page. The proliferation ofContinue Reading
A recent upgrade of the WordPress platform this blog uses may have caused some problems accessing links on this site. I’m looking into the issue and hope to have it corrected shortly. Please check in again if you are looking for a Transmedia Digest page or post that gave youContinue Reading
3D computer graphics give you a lot of flexibility when working with transmedia story scenes. In the first pair of images (Figure 1) taken from the same 3D scene, small changes in facial expressions and camera position can result in an image that tells a very different story. A minorContinue Reading
Think back to one of your favorite stories. Did it make you laugh? Cry? Were you awestruck? Filled with wonder? Did it make the hair on the back of your neck stand up? Were you angry when you finished the story and motivated to take action? This ability to touchContinue Reading
How we describe the audience for transmedia projects is a question that should come up early in the design process for every transmedia narrative. The nature of transmedia storytelling blurs the boundaries between various media. However, it should not blur the vision of who the audience is and their primaryContinue Reading
The opportunities for storytelling presented by today’s generation of social media provides a tremendous amount of flexibility for the transmedia storyteller. Not all social media is the same, however. Each platform has its own characteristics and set of user expectations. Understanding those characteristics and expectations are essential to effective transmediaContinue Reading
Picking a social media channel for transmedia storytelling requires an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each channel. Writing for Twitter is a very difference experience than writing for a blog. A transmedia story published using Twitter must deal not just with the 140 character limit, but how theContinue Reading
Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at how various social media can be used for transmedia storytelling. As part of this experimentation I put together a short photo essay with complementary text and put variations up on Facebook, Pinterest, and Prezi. The resulting essays, though they used theContinue Reading
An increasing number of television shows are testing the transmedia waters. If you’ve been watching TV lately, you may have noticed an increase in the number of shows that have some web- or mobile-based interactive element to them. Burn Notice has its graphic novel, Falling Skies has its app, andContinue Reading