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
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