Posts Tagged ‘storytelling’

More of the manifestos

Monday, October 24th, 2011

It is a bit like the dotcom-bubble and the web 2.0 hype…
The real money was not earned with the business itself, but rather with dreaming up a cool thing and heading for the exit.

Transmedia right now seems to be at the same point right now in a way.
Innovative businessmodels are not really established enough to work on a broader basis and the traditional roads need to be traveled in that aspect.

Best business in transmedia right now seems to be a consultant. Do not get us wrong here, we are not judging, just observing.
And cosultants are also very much needed right now as helpers along the way to sustainable transmedia.

But we wanted to share more than one manifesto, so here is two more of them. And we will post even more, because in our mind,the trick is in seeing what knowledge sticks to your particular project and can be beneficial for that.

The first one to share is even called transmedia manifest and it is laying out eleven theses. Check them out here

The next one are some insights by Thomas Mai and you do not have to read, you can watch :-)

Martin Luther had 95 theses….The trend nowadays seems to be more retro than that and is more in tune with Moses.
That can be observed. The rest…ovserve yourself :-)

10 transmandments revisited

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Most probably you all know Michel Reilhac´s 1o transmandments.
If not, they go as follows:

1.) Thou will collaborate
2.) Thou shall focus on the story
3.) Thou shall embrace the game culture
4.) Thou shall earn trust
5.)  The interface thou shall question
6.) Thou shall focus on the social flow
7.) Thou shall value events
8.) Thou shall spend great time and energy
9.) Thou shall be fair when blending reality and fiction
10.) Thou shall change the world
And in case you did not know, there even is an eleventh: Tou shall build your spectator as your main character.

The 10 being 11 part is a bit like The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Trilogy, but besides that it is a fairly descriptive breakdown of lessons learned.
- Even if you argue about the bibical reference and the implied dogmatism.
As we all learned, there is no more definite formular how to make things work; only adapting techniques to your particular story´s needs can work for you.
The people formerly known as the audience are not stupid and will punish you, if you try to con them with cheap tricks.

We subjected our supported projects of our 2nd call to a quick-check against Michel´s transmandments to doublecheck both: his concepts and our projects.
And we can say that they all hold more or less true, but need to be very much adjusted to fit the definitions within the projects.

When talking about transmedia and how it is changing things, looking at the 10 advices above, one thing sticks out:

ONE THING HAS NEVER CHANGED AND NEVER WILL:

THE STORY IS EVERYTHING.
Best strategies, big budgets, nothing can help you, if your story is bad. The audience will find out…

Luckily our projects have great stories. :-) More about them soon as we believe in sharing and collaborating.

Cross/Trans Art/Advert oN/oFF

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

the lines are blurrying…
Take this as an example:

Build Anything from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

This is an advert for LEGO, but in the blogospehere it is often received as art.
(Well whatever it is, it was done by Temujin Doran)

It is not yet transmedia or particular crossmedia, but I wonder whether LEGO is already working on the augmented reality app for everybodies favorite smartphone where you can superimpose some prefabricated lego stuff on reality and snap your own pictures…
Or maybe even have somebody do some brick movies with LEGO and publish them, so people can use them in-app to do their own mixedmedia shorts…
Of course you would have to interlink this with some social-media platform, build a community around it and voila, there you have a direct line to all the dedicated, creative LEGO freaks worldwide…

Results 2nd call

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

We got so many great projects and it was a real hard decision.

Thank you all for submitting your great ideas to us and making it a real tough decision.
The chosen ones you can find here on our website
To all others we wish the best for your projects nonetheless and hope to see them appear without our support.

Live from Aarhus: workshop broadcast through bambuser

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Hopefully this works (we are trying this out)

otherwise please click on the link

EDIT: Now this is no longer live, but coming from the archive. It starts of in Swedish but switches to English pretty soon, so just fast forward at the beginning, if it sounds like gibberish to you :-)

Jeff Gomez on Transmedia Storytelling

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Found this one on ARGNet.

Nice article, summing up Jeff Gomez presentation at CineKid 2010 in Amsterdam.
Well worth the read, so enjoy.

Find the whole article here

Storify: Create stories using social media

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Thanks to Indrek, who made me aware of this.

With spotify you can use user generated content floating around the social media sphere that relates to your topic to enhance your story.
Well, just watch their video:

Storify demo from Burt Herman on Vimeo.

I requested an invite and I am eager to try it out to see what I can use it for.

the world is full of interesting things…

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

and at least a hundred of them are in here.

Or maybe even more.
Depending on you.
Please spare a minute, but be prepared to spend more time on this.
I assure you, you will find something new/inspiring/wonderous/…

See what technology did to media the last year and get inspired for the years to come.

The application is open for Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries 2010

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Our FIRST MOTION project partner National Film Centre of Latvia is organising a market of ideas for documentary films for all distribution platforms with international potential.

The Forum takes place on September 7-12 (pitching session on September 11-12) in Riga. The final deadline for submission of projects is June 28.

Find out all about it here on their website.

“Digital Revolution: The Active Audience”-report now online

Monday, May 10th, 2010

“Digital Revolution: The Active Audience”, a report by Michael Gubbins, commissioned by Cine-Regio is now available  here on the Cine-Regio website.

You can download the executive summary directly here. In order to get the full report you must submit your contact details and get it sent.
It is well worth the read, but judge for yourself :-)

Michael Gubbins “live” chairing a seminar about his repot can be seen here during the Cross Media reception in Aarhus in January.