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Open domain, Creative Commons, and stock photographs are a great resource for transmedia creators. Millions of photos can be downloaded and used in videos, motion graphics, and comics. Using the photographs as they are will work for some photo comics, but other visual styles can be created using filters toContinue Reading

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Designing a transmedia narrative to be time-agnostic provides both the author and the audience more flexibility than making it time-dependent. Time-dependency can take at least three forms: Requiring the user to participate in a narrative or some of its elements at a specific time (e.g. scheduling an online or realContinue Reading

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A plot is a cause-and-effect chain of relationships that unify the actions, behaviors, and events in a story. McKee describes plot as the “writer’s choice of events and their design in time” (McKee, 1997, p. 43). He adds that plot provides an “internally consistent, interrelated pattern of events that move throughContinue Reading

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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

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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

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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

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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