An article today on NPR about fantasy world-building suggests that what was once for the most outcast of nerds is (along with general geekdom) gaining more widespread acceptance, that the incredibly detailed worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Robert Jordan have a definite – and perhaps lauded – place. I’m a total geek.… Continue reading »
Dec
09
Creative Voice: Adam Nash
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… Continue reading »
Sep
05
Co-Creation: Scott Walker at Transmedia Vancouver
Last week, the Transmedia Vancouver Meetup had our second guest speaker. Scott Walker was kind enough to Skype in from the LA area to talk to us about value co-creation with an audience and how it relates to transmedia storytelling. Value co-creation happens when you have an audience that loves your storyworld and wants to… Continue reading »
Aug
01
Building Hooks: Taking a Cue from the Harry Potter Series
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… Continue reading »
Jun
23
Pottermore’s Potential
A friend and I were just discussing JK Rowling’s Pottermore announcement from earlier today, especially in relation to this video I was pointed towards by vlogbrothers Hank and John Green: The gist is that the announcement really said very little about what Pottermore is actually going to be. We know it’s going to be some… Continue reading »
May
20
Meetup Overview; Transmedia as World
On Wednesday, I held the first Transmedia Vancouver Meetup to discuss transmedia and what we wanted from the group. There were about a dozen attendees, which I thought a fantastic turnout for a first meeting. There’s a lot of interest in this city, as has been clear from the previous Merging Media conferences and seminars.… Continue reading »
May
03
Merging+Media Lab Overview, Part 1
Last Thursday and Friday I had the opportunity and pleasure of attending Merging+Media‘s transmedia seminar and lab with Anita Ondine (who teaches transmedia around the world and among other things produced Lance Weiler’s Pandemic). Thursday morning was the seminar, which anyone could attend. It covered a lot of the basics of transmedia, mostly things I’d… Continue reading »
May
01
Azrael’s Stop IF Release
At the end of every month of our twitter fiction project Azrael’s Stop, we’ve released a piece of bonus content, something that stands alone from the primary story but serves to enhance it. At the end of February, it was a short story in the form of a kind of folk tale, told in-world by… Continue reading »
Mar
28
Consistency in Storytelling
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… Continue reading »
Feb
28
Story Plus World
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… Continue reading »
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