An Author’s Guide to Transmedia Storytelling – the eBook
I’ve been away from Transmedia Digest since mid-Decmeber but that doesn’t mean I’ve abandoned the field of transmedia storytelling. Quite the opposite. Over the last couple of months I’ve immersed myself in a couple of projects. One is getting my thesis on the structure and design of transmedia narratives rewrittenContinue Reading
Talking Transmedia with Peter Usagi
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 for Transmedia Projects
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
Technical Issues with Blogsite
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
Computer Graphics & Designing Emotion in Transmedia Stories
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
Character Arc & the Emotional Heart of Stories
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
Reader, Viewer, or Player – What is Your Transmedia Audience?
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
Transmedia Storytelling Using Social Media – Cowbird & Audioboo
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
Transmedia Storytelling Using Social Media – Prezi
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
Transmedia Storytelling Using Social Media – Facebook & Pinterest
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