I’m thrilled to be joining fellow Transmedia L.A. member Kate McCallum at the upcoming Digital Asset Management conference being produced by Createasphere. Details (and a discount!) below. Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference February 22-23, 2012 | The Beverly Hilton | Los Angeles, CA Exploring the management of digital assets, media assets, marketing resources, [...]
Yesterday, Brian Clark of GMD Studios spoke at Dr. Henry Jenkins‘ transmedia course at USC. He’s promised to post a detailed account of his talk, but he encouraged me to share this summary post for now. The topic of his talk was the business of transmedia. Literally. Perhaps keying off Mike Monello’s recent admonition for [...]
One of the questions posed to me when I guest Skyped into the Transmedia Vancouver Meetup regarded demographics and participation rates (i.e., is the traditional 90/9/1 rule still applicable in shared story worlds?). The next day I saw an article questioning this ratio, and I sent it to several ARG veterans and designers to get [...]
Thrilled to be speaking at the next Whitewater Films Roundtable on Thursday August 18th. The other panelists include: Rick Rosenthal / Whitewater Films Zak Kadison / CEO, Blacklight Transmedia Ben Rock / Transmedia Filmmaker Rick Jacobs / Off Road Should be a great conversation based on the other speakers (myself notwithstanding!). The roundtable is 1-3pm [...]
For a while, I’ve been curious why just about every ARG I’ve come across is a one-off experience, never to be revisited. I understand that most are funded by media companies seeking to promote other, revenue-generating content, so they have no desire to maintain the ARG experience past the launch of the core content (game, [...]
I got a rough video of Dr. Jenkins talking about transmedia and comics at this year’s Comic Con. Dr. Henry Jenkins talks about transmedia and comics at a Comic-Con 2011 panel. He was the last of four panelists, and he only had about 10 minutes to comment on the prior presentations. I love the fact [...]
A year ago, I stopped using the term transmedia in reference to my company and my company’s projects. I had just returned from SXSW in time to catch the first ‘Transmedia, Hollywood’ conference, and the cross-currents going on in the transmedia space forced me to re-evaluate my use of the term. The result was that [...]
Thrilled to be on a panel at Digital Book World 2011 and (finally) making my way back to NYC! The panel is “Rethinking Rights in a Transmedia World,” and it will look at the business models, collaborative aspects of entertainment, and revenue potential under the umbrella of transmedia storytelling. So, I’m hitting the Big Apple [...]
Summary / Group Updates LARP Experience Overview Follow up from Aaron Vanek Next Meetup We kicked off the new year at TLA with four words: Live. Action. Role. Playing. Also known as LARP. But first, a few items of note: Two members completed their master’s degree thesis last month: Cynthia Lieberman and Angelique Toschi. Grats, [...]
THIS POST HAS BEEN FROZEN. I’m maintaining an active list at the page below: http://metascott.com/transmedia-events/ ************************************************************************************************************ Having just learned of a new transmedia startup from across the pond, I thought it might be helpful to collect the various URLs for the meetups I’m aware. Happy to list others if you want to contact me with [...]