I chat with Robert Pratten and Nick Braccia about participatory entertainment and transmedia on their podcast, Transmedia Talk
My interview on Transmedia Talk
I was flattered to be a guest on the fourth installment of the Transmedia Talk podcast series hosted by Robert Pratten and Nick Braccia. We talk about new models of commercial entertainment, participatory entertainment, and (of course!) transmedia storytelling, and Haley Moore and Dee Cook give a rundown of the latest ARG experience from NoMimes […]
The Increasingly Crowded Creative Community
I’ve been meaning to write about this for months, and the recent MTV2 campaign for its ‘Savage County’ horror flick (plus a twitter exchange with @Simonpulman) finally prompted this brief post. It’s getting crowded in the creative communities. The concept of crowdsourcing a few years back sparked a litany of alternate-ending buzz words, with perhaps […]
Transmedia 2.0 – Participatory Entertainment
Wait, what? 2.0? Aren’t we still figuring out transmedia 1.0? Yep. But I’m already looking beyond most of what we’ve seen in transmedia storytelling to date, which has been ‘more of the same’ in the sense that the legal and creative lines between content creators and content consumers are still very much intact for commercial […]
My Multi-Hyphenate Guest Post on Transmedia Imperfection, part trois
My transmedial musings conclude over at Tyler Weaver’s Multi-Hyphenate blog, with the third and final in my series on “The Beauty of Imperfection in Transmedia.” The short series explores the idea that transmedia properties, especially collaborative ones that encourage audience contribution, need to include a certain degree of imperfection-as-incompleteness in their design. Audiences need a […]