Mar 06
On Saturday I was at DIY Days in New York, an event organized by Lance Weiler’s Workbook Project as a gathering of creatives. I was honoured to sit on a panel with Laura Fleming and my Time Tribe partner Karen Wehner on using transmedia in education and for children. Education has always been an area …
Dec 09
I first encountered Adam through Twitter (as with a lot of my transmedia contacts, frankly…). At some point I realized that not only is this a guy with some cool ideas, transmedia-wise, but a guy who loves Dungeons and Dragons and video game soundtracks as much as I do. And that’s just awesome. And then …
Nov 11
I don’t think it’s a controversial stance to say that our education systems need help, especially with digital technology advancing so quickly. Well, Laura Fleming is the kind of teacher I would have loved in school. She truly understands how education can be improved — and implements it in her own classroom every day, using …
Nov 08
One week ago, I launched a writing project called Azrael’s Stop. Far from traditional writing, it’s an experiment in unorthodox narrative, serial fiction, and transmedia storytelling theory. It’s live now at azraelsstop.com The Structure Azrael’s Stop is an experimental transmedia story, telling a serial narrative over the course of a year through daily installments of …
Aug 01
At the Merging+Media lab and seminar back in April, Anita Ondine talked about the need to build “hooks” into a transmedia property. This was the name she gave to those bits of story that are put in one medium that draw you to another medium, another part of the story. They’re the pieces of story …
Jun 01
Four months ago I launched Silverstring Media’s first project, Azrael’s Stop. I largely envisioned Azrael’s Stop as an experimental project, a chance to test some theories of transmedia storytelling on a small scale, and to see what could come of it while I worked on other projects. Now that a significant amount of time has …
Mar 28
I’ve been following FRINGE pretty much since it first aired, and while the first half of the first season or so was a little iffy, it’s since grabbed me by the throat and pulled me into the detailed, plot-driven long-term story and interesting, well-thought-out storyworld. I think it’s done a pretty decent job of setting …
Mar 08
As we enter the second month of Azrael’s Stop, I’ve been putting a lot of thought into the use of Twitter as a storytelling platform — both on its own or as a driving platform, and as a smaller part of a transmedia story. Twitter has already been used in a lot of innovative ways …
Feb 28
One of the roles of a transmedia creator is to develop the storyworld of a property, to ensure that it is big enough and rich enough to sustain stories across media, and to ensure that it has a consistent theme and tone. Last week, Chuck Wendig wrote an article about worldbuilding for writers, and I …
Jan 17
The oft-discussed construct that ties together the individual pieces of a transmedia property is the storyworld, the universe in which the stories all take place. But I think that’s pretty self-evident — if they don’t take place in the same storyworld, they’re not connected in the way transmedia needs to be. What’s discussed much less, …
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