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
Author: Simon Staffans
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
MIPCOM 2011 roundup
Packing my bags, ready to leave MIPCOM behind for yet another year. Cannes surprised us all with a weather more like mid-July than early October, although as I look out to sea now, some sort of autumn storm is churning up waves and whipping the palms around quite mercilessly. I don’t know if it was…Read more MIPCOM 2011 roundup
Some thoughts on crowdfunding
Last Thursday I attended the webinar ”Transmedia Outsold or Sold Out”, hosted by the people behind the Storyworld Conference. Informative, thought provoking and all around a well spent hour (check out hashtag #swc11 for tweets from the session, or go here to take part of the recorded session (needs e-mail to access)).There were other people…Read more Some thoughts on crowdfunding
The transmedia format
I recently stumbled (again) upon this good post by Jason from The Connected Set on why television is an integral part of a transmedia format. Coming from a television background much as Jason, I guess it is no surprise that I agree with him on most of his points. Television is still very much a…Read more The transmedia format
Transmedia – 13 months and counting
Greatly inspired by Laura Flemings post "My Year In Transmedia" I realized it’s been over a year since my eyes were opened to transmedia storytelling as a way of developing and distributing stories. Since then I’ve happily embraced transmedia (as I define it (a definition that can be found at the end of this post,…Read more Transmedia – 13 months and counting
Transmedia and multiplatform business
I am currently attending the Multiplatform Business School in Ronda, Spain, a five day workshop on, well, how to do business in an age of multiplatform content. It’s been some highly instructive five days, with something like 9-10 projects participants brought to the workshop being constructively criticized and developed further in a timely fashion. An…Read more Transmedia and multiplatform business
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