Story Mode The story mode refers to how the story relates to the audience during its presentation. There are two story modes: Representational: In representational mode everything is expressed from the point of view of a character in the story and the author never addresses the audience. The story isContinue Reading
One of the biggest challenges of transmedia narratives is developing a story structure that fits a linear narrative into a non-linear transmedia framework. Fragmenting a story across multiple platforms won’t work for most members of the audience (Norrington, 2010). When designing the structure of transmedia narratives, it is important to maintainContinue Reading
One of the biggest challenges of transmedia narratives is developing a story structure that fits a linear narrative into a non-linear transmedia framework. Fragmenting a story across multiple platforms won’t work for most members of the audience (Norrington, 2010). When designing the structure of transmedia narratives, it is important to maintainContinue Reading
At the story level, the transmedia author focuses on individual stories rather than the broader storyworld or transmedia project as a whole. At the beginning of the story development process, it is important to identify the story concept, dramatic question, and controlling idea. Story Concept Story emerges from the interrelationshipsContinue Reading
Events are a change in the state of an entity such as a setting, character, or an element of the larger storyworld. The elements and properties of events are: Internal: An internal event is a psychological change that occurs in a character, typically as a result of an interaction withContinue Reading
A setting is the backdrop within which a narrative occurs, but it goes far beyond the physical characteristics of a place in which events happen. Settings occur on both the storyworld and individual story levels. Settings at both levels are similar, but are differentiated by scope and the level ofContinue Reading
Campbell’s structure of the hero’s journey has been adapted and used by many writers. Numerous examples of modified versions of the hero’s journey exist, but most retain the essential steps identified by Campbell. One such modified version is included in 45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters, whichContinue Reading
“Hey…I’m not ready for a relationship with you yet.” Social media will play an increasingly important role in transmedia storytelling, but there are a few things that storytellers are going to have to learn first. One of them is not to push users too quickly to enter into a relationship.Continue Reading
Campbell identified the three stages of the journey as departure, initiation, and return. Within those three stages, Campbell identified a series of steps (Campbell, 1949, pp. ix-x): Departure: The departureis the first of the three stages of the hero’s journey and consists of five steps: Call to Adventure: The call toContinue Reading
An interesting question about fiction and nonfiction transmedia storytelling was raised in a recent LinkedIn discussion. Wendy Bancroft, in the Transmedia Storytelling group, said: Most people interested in transmedia approaches have fiction in mind–stories that can move across platforms, that can change, that can involve gaming… What about non-fiction? HowContinue Reading