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Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers Tom Dowd

Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers By Tom Dowd

Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers by Tom Dowd


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Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers Summary

Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers by Tom Dowd

Transmedia is a practical primer on the conceptualization, structuring, writing, execution, management, and marketing of a transmedia property that exists in multiple forms of media and shares a single interwoven story. Thus far, creatives and producers have focused on single areas of production-motion pictures, television, or video games. For those who are going to participate in or supervise the creation of a transmedia property, a minimum understanding of all the important media is required. Transmedia provides readers with the solid foundation they need.

Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers Reviews

For anyone interested in transmedia storytelling this book is a fantastic starting point -- stimulating, observant, and insightful. It's a panoramic view of this fascinating new arena of storytelling. - Carlton Cuse, Writer/Executive Producer/Showrunner LOST, BATES MOTEL

Storytelling Across Worlds acknowledges that, increasingly, all media is transmedia. As part of working in television, I've found myself creating webisodes, podcasts, games, comic books, motion comics, short stories, fictionalized twitter feeds and web sites set within the parent shows' fictional worlds. This book draws on contemporary examples to provide perspective on this huge, and somehow still growing, creative world. Any book would be challenged to get its arms around a topic that is defined by its unconstrained scope. This one grabs transmedia in a mighty hug and doesn't let go. - Jane Espenson, Television writer/producer: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Once Upon A Time, Husbands

How often in life have you been warned that there are rules? Storytelling Across Worlds delightfully dispenses with antiquated narrative limitations by throwing open the endless possibilities of sophisticated narrative through transmedia storytelling as the actual, practical bedrock of modern entertainment. With this book, the authors have crafted an elegant and masterful dissection of narrative's new world order. - Vlad Woylnetz, President of Production, Cineflix, Executive Producer Torchwood, Executive in Charge of Production Mad Men, Breaking Bad & Walking Dead

About Tom Dowd

Tom Dowd is a 25-year veteran of paper and video game design and world building. He is the co-creator of the celebrated Shadowrun role-playing game which spawned a series of cross-media computer games, novels, board games, and comic books. He is a working game designer and currently teaches game development and transmedia at Columbia College Chicago.

Michael Fry is an Emmy-nominated writer/producer who has worked on the NBC shows The Cosby Show and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as well as the WB's The Parent 'Hood. He is currently an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches writing for television, the internet, mobile television, as well as transmedia property development.

Michael Niederman is an award-winning film and video maker as well as the chair of the Television Department of Columbia College Chicago. His projects include the dramatic film The Paled Man and the documentary Voices from Northern Ireland. He teaches writing, directing, and transmedia and lectures on television, and emerging narrative forms.

Josef Steiff is a writer and independent filmmaker as well as the Film & Video Senior Associate Chair and professor at Columbia College Chicago, teaching screenwriting and transmedia development. Joe has edited volumes on anime, manga, Battlestar Galactica, and Sherlock Holmes for Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy, and is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Independent Filmmaking.

Table of Contents

Preface, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 1 Understanding Transmedia Storytelling; Chapter 1 One Story, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 2 Worldbuilding and Key Story Elements, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 3 Storytelling and Narrative Continuity, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 2 Many Media; Chapter 4 Motion Pictures and Visual Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 5 Television and Serialized Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 6 Video Games and Interactive Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 7 Other Forms of Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 8 Choosing Properties and Forms, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 3 Managing the Story; Chapter 9 Managing the Transmedia Property, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Chapter 10 The Transmedia Intellectual Property Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff; Part 4 End Matters; Chapter 11 Wrap Up, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Motion Picture Platform Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Television Platform Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Video Game Platform Bible, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Platform Bibles for Other Forms of Storytelling, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Sample Trademark Licensing Agreement, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff The Producers Guild of America Code of Credits Definition of Transmedia Producer, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff Suggested Readings, Tom Dowd, Michael Niederman, Michael Fry, Josef Steiff;

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CIN0240824113G
9780240824116
0240824113
Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers by Tom Dowd
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20130225
352
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