Title :
The ghost club storyscape: designing for transmedia storytelling
Author :
Blumenthal, Hank ; Xu, Yan
Author_Institution :
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
fDate :
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCE.2012.6227412