On Friday, I attended a workshop hosted by Vancouver’s Merging Media called Access 360: Increasing ROI through Social Media and Gamification, with Rochelle Grayson and Scott Dodson. It was quite a valuable workshop that went far beyond the usual fluff about social media marketing and gamification and into real metrics, economics, game design theory, and… Continue reading »
Mar
26
Nov
25
Creative Voice: Paul Burke
This week on Creative Voice we have Paul Burke, a great chap from the UK that’s been in the transmedia space at least as long as I have, working on several projects including personal ones, and interested in figuring this all out as much as the rest of us! I finally had the chance to… Continue reading »
Nov
24
The Business of Art: Brian Clark at Transmedia Vancouver (2/2)
One For Them, One for Us Back at StoryWorld, Brian Clark mentioned a business tactic that inspired a lot of us from Vancouver, and that was “one for them, one for us.” Do the projects for clients in order to make money, then use that money to help fund your own projects, to do the… Continue reading »
Nov
23
The Business of Art: Brian Clark at Transmedia Vancouver (1/2)
Yesterday, Transmedia Vancouver hosted Brian Clark of GMD Studios as our guest speaker. Though piped in via a Skype connection with unsteady audio, Brian’s hour with us was chock full of great insights. Especially due to the fact that not everyone caught everything Brian said, my summary of the conversation here is going to attempt… Continue reading »
Oct
26
An Experiment in Serial Fiction and Self-Publication
Today, our article on Azrael’s Stop from the self-publishing perspective has been featured on the Self-Publishing Review. An excerpt: They say, “build it and they will come.” Well whoever “they” are, are wrong. (“They” are of course the film Field of Dreams, and they were right, but that’s beside the point.) This is something I’m… Continue reading »
Aug
08
A Business Proposition
I look at the transmedia storytelling industry today, and I generally see two things: big companies like Starlight Runner and 4th Wall, who gets lots of money from big entertainment properties to make transmedia projects, and indie creators wanting to make their own cool stories and often having to do so without much potential for… Continue reading »
Mar
22
Last thing I’ll say
I don’t really want to write this post, because I don’t really want to have to write this post. But SXSW apparently reared the ugly head of not-being-satisfied-with-the-term-’transmedia’. Again. I don’t want to get into a whole thing with this. I thought we were past this. (I founded this blog with what I thought would… Continue reading »
Feb
07
Revisiting financing transmedia
As I’ve been getting Silverstring Media off the ground as more than just this blog, and as I’ve been bringing my crew into the fold of the industry, I’ve been thinking more about the issues of money in creating transmedia projects, especially from an indie perspective. Money comes up again and again in transmedia discussions… Continue reading »
Nov
04
Using existing technology
Last week I attended the Merging+Media conference in Vancouver, and as I wrote last time, I’m going to continue my brief look at the topics discussed therein by looking at using existing technology. Existing Technology One of the panels at Merging+Media was about new technologies and how they can be used in the world of… Continue reading »
Oct
30
The audience triangle
October 28-29 found Vancouver hosting the Merging+Media conference, a look at cross-media production for several industries. The second day featured keynote speeches and panel discussions about various aspects of transmedia production — writing, technology, funding, etc. Some of it was stuff that gets discussed a lot in this community, but some good points were raised… Continue reading »
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