A Masterclass with Transmedia SG, Singapore Media Academy, May 29, 2013 Case Studies on Ruby Skye PI, The Karada & Zed.TO's Byologyc

1. Designing for attention
Transmedia’s New Narrative Practices Part 2
Siobhan O’Flynn, PhD
Interactive Storytelling c. 2001
Transmedia SG Singapore Media Academy
May 29, 2013

2. communitybuilding
Case Studies

3. Title Text
User-Defined Footer Text

4. Indie Web Series
•Jill Golick, Story2.OH
•Identifies a content gap in teen
programming
•Under 13 not tracked on analytics
•Audience of avid readers
•Teen detective (Nancy Drew
updated)
•15 day shoot during August 2010
•Short episodes 3-5 minutes
•Season 1 ran Oct.-Dec. 2011
•Content distributed across platforms
where audience lives
•Facebook Page - conversation with
fans, not content push to fans
•Recognizing audience as people is
key
•Jill knows them all
•Cross-posting fan content
= engagement strategy

5. tumblr
Integrated
transmedia
puzzles
literacy site
youtube channel

6. Indie Web Series
•Jill Golick
•‘On TV the show would be slated as ‘tween’ content’
•Internet demographics different from TV
•On the internet, audience drawn from wider age group into 20s & older
•Harry Potter generation now in their 20s = global audience
•Views: Canada/US, Mexico, Philippines, India, Australia, UK, Malaysia
•Facebook stats revealed large Spanish audience
•Episodes now subtitled in Spanish

7. Indie Web Series
•Season 2 - shot summer 2011
& launched Oct. 2012
•Ruby Skye PI:The Haunted
Library includes:
•50 behind-the-scenes & “extra
features” videos,
•4 web sites,
•4 Tumblr blogs,
•multiple social media channels, and
10 interactive clues.
•Designed to engage fans between
episodes, viewers can study and
solve the clues which Ruby finds in
the story.
•Ruby Skye PI:The Haunted Library
available on KoldCast TV, blip,
YouTube and DailyMotion
•Dec. 2012 - Ruby Skye PI Season 2
Hits 1.5 Million Video Views

8. ■ Grand Prize Winner
■ Outstanding Lead Actress – Interactive Narrative Drama: Madison Cheeatow
■ Outstanding Guest Actor – Interactive Narrative Drama: Geri Hall
■ Outstanding Cinematography – Interactive Narrative Drama: Alex Dacev
■ Outstanding Direction – Interactive Narrative Drama: Kelly Harms

9. Innovative Content
Development
& Business Model

10. Canadian Indie Transmedia
A prequel adventure to an upcoming TV series
a series of graphic novels.

11. International
ProductionTeam
• Wattpad raises $17 million in venture funding June 2012
• Called ‘the YouTube of writing’
•‘social-reading platform that allows amateur authors to upload content and
connect directly with readers’
•Wattpad hosts more than five million user-generated stories in 25 languages and
half a million new stories are added every month.
•3 million registered users, up from 1 million in September
•users spend 1.7 billion minutes reading and writing every month, in June 2012 =
more than Pinterest.
• Jim Martin - Heroes LA
•Tom Lillehammer - Conspiracy for
Good Sweden
•Carrie Cutforth-Young - QueenSpade
Toronto
Innovative Platform

12. Analyzed fan activity
on Wattpad
•‘social-reading platform’
•Fans can extend content, write new
stories, share with friends
•links to fan YouTube videos
• popular with ‘Twihards, girls who read not only theTwilight novels but
Stephenie Meyers’ Midnight Sun’
•Alternate version told from new pov, leaked online.
•Karada designed to appeal to this demographic & the Wattpad trend to switch
between perspectives & realities.
Innovative Platform

13. Guest Writers create
new worlds
•prequel to TV Series
•graphic novel by Hugo Arias
•musical score by Steve Cupani
•Chapter 1 written by Carrie Cutforth-Young
•establish premise, characters, dilemma & Primary World
•Guest writers create new worlds as story moves into multi-verse
•Allows for new voices, new styles, new povs
•Fluid format also creates space for fan fiction
•Fan Fiction is Key Component of Wattpad activity
•Fans extend & share new content
•20,000 downloads in first week
Innovative Approach

16. Remember the analogue
people love material things....

17. Each story in the Letters is like an episode of a television series - each has its own
internal arc, and each connects to others. While the series doesn't follow a single
narrative from beginning to end, certain threads connect groups of episodes.
Kickstarter Campaign
Laser Lace Letters - 7 Tangible Steampunk Stories by Haley Moore

18. Value of Scarcity
people love exclusivity...

19. HBO IMAGINE ...scarcity

25. • a new normal
• participatory
• many to many
• gifts not viral
• collaboration
• philanthropy
• shared value
• civic engagement
vs. slactivism
choco-locate.com

26. do more with less

27. Siobhan O’Flynn, PhD
NarrativeNow
TMCResourceKit.com
sioflynn@gmail.com
Twitter @Sioflynn
Transmedia-101.com
thank you