• DocumentCode
    1549880
  • Title

    The ghost club storyscape: designing for transmedia storytelling

  • Author

    Blumenthal, Hank ; Xu, Yan

  • Author_Institution
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
  • Volume
    58
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    190
  • Lastpage
    196
  • Abstract
    One of the key questions about transmedia storytelling is how to design a participant´s experience across different media so that it is connected and perceived as a whole. We extract four design connectors for building such relationships from current work in media studies, production literature, and practice. These proposed design components are mythology, canon, character and genre. The goal of these connectors is to create relationships that form a whole work from stand-alone parts. To test this approach we have designed and developed a group of connected digital media expressions, The Ghost Club Storyscape, to experiment with these four ingredients on multiple media.
  • Keywords
    Abstracts; Connectors; Games; History; Media; Motion pictures; TV; ARG; Transmedia storytelling; alternate reality game; augmented reality; cross media; franchises; interactive narrative; narrative; transmedia; webisodes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-3063
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCE.2012.6227412
  • Filename
    6227412