Storytelling Across Worlds
Transmedia for Creatives and Producers
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 2015
400 pages
978-1-136-07142-3 (ISBN)
Description
Don't restrict your creative property to one media channel. Make the essential leap to transmedia!
From film to television to games and beyond, Storytelling Across Worlds gives you the tools to weave a narrative universe across multiple platforms and meet the insatiable demand of today's audience for its favorite creative property.
This, the first primer in the field for both producers and writers, teaches you how to:
* Employ film, television, games, novels, comics, and the web to build rich and immersive transmedia narratives
* Create writing and production bibles for transmedia property
* Monetize your stories across separate media channels
* Manage transmedia brands, marketing, and rights
* Work effectively with writers and producers in different areas of production
* Engage audiences with transmedia storytelling
Up-to-date examples of current transmedia and cross-media properties accompany each chapter and highlight this hot but sure-to-be enduring topic in modern media.
From film to television to games and beyond, Storytelling Across Worlds gives you the tools to weave a narrative universe across multiple platforms and meet the insatiable demand of today's audience for its favorite creative property.
This, the first primer in the field for both producers and writers, teaches you how to:
* Employ film, television, games, novels, comics, and the web to build rich and immersive transmedia narratives
* Create writing and production bibles for transmedia property
* Monetize your stories across separate media channels
* Manage transmedia brands, marketing, and rights
* Work effectively with writers and producers in different areas of production
* Engage audiences with transmedia storytelling
Up-to-date examples of current transmedia and cross-media properties accompany each chapter and highlight this hot but sure-to-be enduring topic in modern media.
Reviews / Votes
For anyone interested in transmedia storytelling this book is a fantastic starting point -- stimulating, observant, and insightful. It's a panoramic view of this fascinating new arena of storytelling. - Carlton Cuse, Writer/Executive Producer/Showrunner LOST, BATES MOTEL"Storytelling Across Worlds" acknowledges that, increasingly, all media is transmedia. As part of working in television, I've found myself creating webisodes, podcasts, games, comic books, motion comics, short stories, fictionalized twitter feeds and web sites set within the parent shows' fictional worlds. This book draws on contemporary examples to provide perspective on this huge, and somehow still growing, creative world. Any book would be challenged to get its arms around a topic that is defined by its unconstrained scope. This one grabs transmedia in a mighty hug and doesn't let go. - Jane Espenson, Television writer/producer: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Once Upon A Time, Husbands
How often in life have you been warned that "there are rules"? Storytelling Across Worlds delightfully dispenses with antiquated narrative limitations by throwing open the endless possibilities of sophisticated narrative through transmedia storytelling as the actual, practical bedrock of modern entertainment. With this book, the authors have crafted an elegant and masterful dissection of narrative's new world order. - Vlad Woylnetz, President of Production, Cineflix, Executive Producer Torchwood, Executive in Charge of Production Mad Men, Breaking Bad & Walking Dead
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
2,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-07142-3 (9781136071423)
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Transmedia for Creatives and Producers
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Content
Preface, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 1 Understanding Transmedia Storytelling; Chapter 1 One Story, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 2 Worldbuilding and Key Story Elements, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 3 Storytelling and Narrative Continuity, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 2 Many Media; Chapter 4 Motion Pictures and Visual Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 5 Television and Serialized Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 6 Video Games and Interactive Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 7 Other Forms of Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 8 Choosing Properties and Forms, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 3 Managing the Story; Chapter 9 Managing the Transmedia Property, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 10 The Transmedia Intellectual Property Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 4 End Matters; Chapter 11 Wrap Up, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Motion Picture Platform Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Television Platform Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Video Game Platform Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Platform Bibles for Other Forms of Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Sample Trademark Licensing Agreement, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff The Producers Guild of America "Code of Credits" Definition of Transmedia Producer, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Suggested Readings, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff;
