Author: Simon Staffans

2012? Bring it on!

A year draws to an end and another one beckonsaround the corner, luring us in (as if we had a choice!) with promises ofunexplored territories, tears and laughter, friends and foes and a full 366days of shaping our own lives.Most of what my 2011 has been about – at leastin a professional sense – is…Read more 2012? Bring it on!

One Year in Transmedia, second edition

This is the second edition of the curation of this blog that I published a little over a month ago. I felt it was pretty incomplete without the voices of some of the other people in the field as well, so I decided to ask some questions of some people I felt were the right…Read more One Year in Transmedia, second edition

Transmedia in Television

It was with great joy I read Lisa Hsia’s(Bravo Digital Media) article over at Mashable yesterday. Entitled ”HowTransmedia Storytelling Is Changing TV”, it struck directly to the core of myprofessional life – the merging of television with transmedia storytellingmethods, meaningful multiplatform content, coherent strategies for development,production and distribution and a will to look beyond traditional…Read more Transmedia in Television

One year in one book

A brief notification to let you know; I took a long hard look at this blog the other day, read some of my previous posts and sat myself down with Scrivener. A fairly considerable amount of hours later I'd chosen some 1/3 of the posts (with comments, some of them), rewritten them somewhat, divided them…Read more One year in one book

Ten Advice for Transmedia Storytellers

Disclosure – the following post is based on a brilliant list about creative photography that Chase Jarvis put up in October,which in turn was inspired by a post by Guy Kawasaki entitled ”What I learned from Steve Jobs”. What I’ve done is port the ten points Chase made to the fieldof transmedia, as I think…Read more Ten Advice for Transmedia Storytellers

The NOT of Transmedia

Late yesterday evening, as I sat writing on atransmedia mystery/horror novel I like to keep at hand as my own personal petproject – a combination of jet lag and a full moon helps no end when you wantto work nights, see – I had a small revelation.I had written a couple of pages and felt…Read more The NOT of Transmedia

MIPCOM Panel

I totally forgot to add it here: I was invited to sit in on the MIPBloggers Roundup Panel at MIPCOM 2011 - the very last session of the conference, and - IMHO - an hour of pretty open talks about the industry as a whole, "buzzwords" like transmedia, important deals and so on. Great fun!…Read more MIPCOM Panel

Storyworld and the Real World – Five Thoughts

So, an almost overwhelming week at Storyworldin San Francisco is over, jet lag is slowly fading, the heaps of work await andit’s time to take stock of what was learned during the conference. From my POV,as a creator and developer of tv formats – multiplatform, cross media,transmedia ones – here are a couple of points:The…Read more Storyworld and the Real World – Five Thoughts

Guest post: Transmedia – Lessons learned

The following is a guest post by Lucas J.W. Johnson from Silverstring Media in Vancouver. It's about trying to launch a project, realizing when to pull the plug, and using the experience to try anew. It resonates with me and some of the stuff I've worked on over the years; key is to fail, and…Read more Guest post: Transmedia – Lessons learned

Disciplines merging in transmedia

One of the most interesting and at the same time most challenging aspects of transmedia is getting everything to gel flawlessly. It was pretty hard back in the days of interactive television (try telling an MHP programmer that the interactive set-top-box-game he was programming would need to a) look like the rest of the graphics…Read more Disciplines merging in transmedia