Transmedia Storytelling

Paulien Dresscher Media Researcher, Programmer and Head New Media Cinekidpaulien@dresscher.nl

Medium: imparting fictional or factional information. But how to define a medium. Is it its content? The constitutional components of television programming? Moving images and sounds? The technology that sends the signals? Or a combination of texts, technologies and industry?

Medium: imparting fictional or factional information. But how to define a medium. Is it its content? The constitutional components of television programming? Moving images and sounds? The technology that sends the signals? Or a combination of texts, technologies and industry?

Transmediality: Industrial practice of using multiple media technologies to present information concerning a single world through a range of textual forms.

Medium: imparting fictional or factional information. But how to define a medium. Is it its content? The constitutional components of television programming? Moving images and sounds? The technology that sends the signals? Or a combination of texts, technologies and industry?

Transmediality:• Industrial practice of using multiple media technologies to present information concerning a single fictional world through a range of textual forms.

Twofold: used as marketing tool or enlarging the story’s scope and impact by using the specificity of each medium.

Medium: imparting fictional or factional information. But how to define a medium. Is it its content? The constitutional components of television programming? Moving images and sounds? The technology that sends the signals? Or a combination of texts, technologies and industry?

Transmediality:• Industrial practice of using multiple media technologies to present information concerning a single fictional world through a range of textual forms.

Twofold: used as marketing tool or enlarging the story’s scope and impact by using the specificity of each medium.

Transmedia Storytelling integrating multiple texts to create a narrative so large that it cannot be contained in one medium.

Is it new?

Transmedia as a concept

New LabelsOld practices?

What’s new? digital, algorithmic, networked, distributed

Transmedia Forms as a

concept

• Fiction• Non-Fiction• Documentary• Participatory• onsite/online

Reality- Representations of Reality- Reproduction of Reality

Transmedial narrations are not just representations of reality, but can simultaneously be a production of this reality, because they embed immediate responses, in flux, into actuality itself.

Reality- Representations of Reality- Reproduction of Reality

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HIGHRISEKatherina Cizek 2010

• Convergence culture• Mediascape• Carving out new spaces, enabling new narrative structures• “trans” from where to where?• New relation to actuality

Seriality-social media-participatory-online-reproduction (of reality)

Webcam Venus  A collaboration between Addie Wagenknecht & Pablo Garcia

filmpje/youtube

Technology shows us how to be in more than one space and more than one identity at the same time

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Man With a Movie Camera, Perry Bard 2007

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• on and about the online• uniqueness vs adaptation• participatory & audiences• medium specificity• imagined

Human Birdwings Floris Kaayk 2011

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Transmedial narrations are based on the convergence of media but also effectively create convergence between different forms: fiction and non-fiction, the story and actuality, diffusing the line between IRL: daily life/the real/ & NIRL: the narration/the imagined. Meanwhile, a possible meaningful (social/cultural) discussion is enabled.

Linkshttp://powertothepixel.com/http://highrise.nfb.ca/http://www.anitaondine.com/http://momentsofinnovation.mit.edu/http://fffff.at/http://www.transmedianext.com/http://www.floriskaayk.com/http://www.doclab.org/http://henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.htmlhttp://www.christydena.com/phttp://dziga.perrybard.net/

Thanks!

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