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Becoming Transmedia Architects Through Play and Visual Thinking
This document discusses transmedia storytelling and provides examples. Transmedia refers to telling a story across multiple media platforms, with each platform making its own unique contribution to the overall story. A case study is presented on dimensions of transmedia stories, including narrative, audience interaction, real world integration, and co-creation. The document encourages developing a transmedia "map" to track story elements across timelines and platforms with audience engagement in mind. It provides an example map and concludes with contact information for the author.
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- 1. Erin Reilly Becoming Transmedia Architects through Playand Visual Thinking June 26, 2013
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- 24. The Story ChainGame Flotsam: A Transmedia Play Experience
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- 29. Transmedia storytelling …represents aprocess where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience.
- 30. Transmedia storytelling Ideally, eachmedium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.
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- 36. STORY EXPERIENCE STORY GAMING REAL WORLD CO-CREATION Importance of narrative Audienceability to change or contribute to story Extent to which experience pervades real locations & times, real people & events Audience has goal, use of puzzles, use of game mechanics (trophies, levels, leader boards etc.); AUDIENCE PLATFORMS PREMISE www.ActiveStorySystem.com @robpratten Definition… 1. The reason given in support of a conclusion 2. What the writer sets out to prove with their story 3. The core dramatic issue built around a human need It’s what you’re trying to say – a point-of-view of the story (writer). It’s not a synopsis (that’s in STORY) STORY Short synopsis of the story. It’s helpful if you can use this format “When <protagonist> learns that <inciting event> he must <overcome/battle> in order to <goal>. But <what’s stopping her?> . Finally <what’s the final resolution?> NOTES EXPERIENCE To play this story the audience must <what actions do the audience need to take?> PREMISE AUDIENCE Who is this experience aimed at? PLATFORMS What platforms are used? Mobile apps/social media/games consoles/street theatre/ playing cards/ posters etc. TYPE of STORY-EXPERIENCE Create a radar diagram that shows the relative importance of these four dimensions. Here’s some examples. STORY GAMING REAL W ORLD CO-CREATION AUDIO TOUR STORY GAMING REAL W ORLD CO-CREATION PERVASIVE GAME STORY GAMING REAL W ORLD CO-CREATION SCAVENGER HUNT STORY GAMING REAL W ORLD CO-CREATION ONLINE TEXT ADVENTURE Transmedia Story Pitch Activity
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- 39. There is notransmedia formula. Transmedia refers to a set of choices made about the best approach to tell a particular story to a particular audience in a particular context depending on the particular resources available to a particular producers. - Henry Jenkins Transmedia 202: Further Reflections
- 40. Packaging a brandinto a narrative which is being communicated across mostly participatory channels, with the story and the media content morphing and developing as consumers and others enter the discussion. Extend to Branding
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- 42. 3 Key Pillarsof Transmedia Branding Activity World Timeline Characters
- 43. How do we GoForth Together? Audience Engagement
- 44. We Like toWatch (The Logic of Entertainment)
- 45. We Are WhatWe Watch (The Logic of Identification)
- 46. Did You SeeThat? (The Logic of Social Connection)
- 47. Everyone’s an Expert (TheLogic of Mastery)
- 48. Being There (The Logicof Immersion)
- 49. Go Forth Together Activity Answer thefollowing questions: • How do we Go Forth with the awareness of the different worlds and characters of SMG’s program? • Besides the call to individually Go Forth, how do we collectively Go Forth Together? • What actions do we need to seed in the SMG program campaign to foster participation from local to global and support multicultural conversations about SMG?
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- 51. Make Your TransmediaMap: • Timeframes • Media platforms Sticky Note attributes: • Modes of audience engagement • Directionality • Location Living, Breathing Document
- 52. Fill in theTransmedia Map with the following characteristics Example
- 53. Erin Reilly www.annenberglab.com ereilly@usc.edu @ebreilly /www.ebreilly.com Creative Director USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
Editor's Notes
- #3 A little bit about myself…
- #4 At table – introduce self, name, company, main responsibilites and your most playful experience this week What were you doing, where were you, who were you with I trust you’ll all share something PG 13 Debrief
- #5 Introduce marshmallow challenge – simple exercise with some powerful lessons about innovation. Thanks to Tom Wujec for some great graphics – Ted Talk There are three bags of material. Don’t look yet. I’d like you to form groups of no more than 5 people. Each group will have their own page with instructions for the challenge.
- #6 Each bag contains: 20 sticks of spaghetti 1 yard of tape 1 yard of string and one marshmallow Your challenge is to build the highest tower. You have instructions but let’s briefly review End with Ready on your mark get set go! – [post time Play a drum roll
- #7 Debrief and give prize, standing ovation – play track of applause Done all over the world from CEO’s to kindergarten, engineers, mba’s, archetects, graduate students, teachers So, let’s ask the winners, - why do you think you won?
- #9 Why? We train them to plan to get the one best way and “drive it home” - harder and faster, failures are punishable by excommunication. I teach com. Students and they are not always so planful – last year I had an MBA refuge. He tended to “exert a great deal leadership” So, if MBA’s are poor performers, who performs well…
- #11 How did we do against the Kindergarteners?
- #12 Let’s look at the usual process, build off of what happened in the groups
- #14 PeePee My MBA planned a lot longer than that – what aobut you
- #15 Execute,
- #16 Add the marshmallow and Ta Da – a masterpiece!
- #17 Or as frequently happen oh- oh Before I started to do this exercise I thought that marshmallows were light
- #18 Story of mba Tom Wujac has spent a lot of time researching this activity – the things people do for a living huh The business students don’t deal with the marshmallow . The kindergarten’s are always touching and playing with the marshmallow
- #19 They have a very different design process – One of the tennets of innovation, they are always taking “little bets” they try things out and see how it works and then, without much executive function, they try again. My daughter only one in my family who can actually do anything She’s been able to do this since she was 4 I’m a Phd my husband is a tax attorney so when our ice maker broke, we were at a loss. When my daughter was four the ice maker broke and she fixed when I asked her what she did she replied I played with it.
- #39 1:30 – 2:00 Three Groups share their Transmedia Story Pitches (10 minutes each) We decide which one to further explore as a group for the afternoon
- #40 Transmedia Brandiing started out as a research network and has morphed into a process to help companies but along the way several who participated in the original think and do wanted to educate their own organizations about think and do so, what started as a research project has turned into the development of a process to help companies look at their own ability to do transmedia branding, along the way the education orientated folks amongst us have developed a great D-book on Tis for Transmedia.
- #42 Most iconic transmedia brand campaign – 2010 Old Spice The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Pre-aired before the 2010 Superbowl …spread like wildfire to 20 million YouTube views in just 3 days Campaign consisted of 186 short videos of Mustafa – Old Spice Guy Numerous Parodies and Remixed videos like Remix videos: Grover; Smell Like a Monster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM Fan following with Old Spice (FB, twitter, youtube, reddit, digg) Old Spice response videos to fans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPlg9ez4L1w Combination of brands (Bounce & Old Spice) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvYP_d2S1Pg Memes are very important to brand spreadability – marriage proposal from Mustafa ROI In first 6 months, Old Spice sales increased 27% year-to-year …with month to month increase of 107% 2 billion plus total campaign impressions 40 million views on the videos within first week 3000% increase in twitter followers 2000% increase in google searches 800% increase in FB interactions 300% increase in traffic at oldspice.com (notice more increase across SNS than brand hub website)
- #43 2:15 – 3:00 Three Key Pillars of a Transmedia Branding Activity Three teams will each dive deep into one of the three pillars, brainstorming possibilities for what the “world,” “timeline,” and “characters” might mean not only within the context of the chosen SMG program, but also in relation to one another. Already discussed through the Flotsam Transmedia Play Experience from the morning ** Think of the different places where the story can flow in and out of (ie: The octupuses, the turtles…) ** Timeline …what is the backstory? What happens after the event? Is this continuous or for a certain amount of time? ** 2ndary characters, tertiary characters, you as a character, the creator as a character…. 3:00 – 3:30 Teams will share Activity and Group will Reflect
- #46 Ivan Askwith’s Typography of Engagement
- #49 3:30 – 4:00 Going Forth Together Activity Individually, participants will answer some questions and connect them to either 1) transnational connections or 2) cultural events in relation to the SMG program being explored.