Group Progress for Monday

AGENDA:

Post today's group progress report.

Transmedia Projects

Group Progress Report:

Post a comment on the blog:

Transmedia Projects

AGENDA:

Continue work on transmedia projects. Post what you are now working on.

Check out this website for more ideas and examples;

http://eduscapes.com/fluid/4h.html 

http://lugarslists.blogspot.com/2011/03/twitter-murder-mystery.html

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html#/?part=tunnel-creek

http://www.echostories.com/great-examples-multiplatform-storytelling/

Project ideas:

Original Content. Your project must include an original work such as a poem, short story, nonfiction article, comic, or other original prose. This work can be displayed as a PDF file, web page, or in another format of your choice.

Media Elements. Your project must include at least TWO of the following media elements:

• Images. Drawings, scanned artifacts, maps, diagrams, graphs, charts, photographs, symbols, organizers, scanned artwork, satellite images, X-rays, comics
• Audio. Famous speeches, story dialog, music, background sounds, sound effects, narration
• Animation. Moving images, slide shows
• Video. Interviews, stories, documentary, historical videos, content videos,
• Website Materials. Databases, quality websites... not "Google searches"... instead specific pages with specific content.

Your project SHOULD contain:

• Participatory elements where readers are engaged in some nonlinear activities (not just read from beginning to end)
• An engaging storytelling environment where readers are draw into the world you've established
• A cohesive set of materials that promote synergy (more than could be accomplished through a single medium)
• A planned environment for exploration so readers are likely to be able to complete the experience

Your project MAY contain:

• Gaming aspects (i.e., build the story around a game-type environment where readers take on roles or solve problems)
• Inquiry elements (i.e., design an environment that involves questioning, exploration, assimiliation, inference, and reflection)
• Mystery elements (i.e., build in clues that can be found using website materials that you use or create)
• Problem solving elements (i.e., incorporate math problems to solve, science experiments to try)
• Social aspects (i.e., create a ning where fans can share ideas about your transmedia experience, participants add characters or chapters to your book, choose your own adventure with a wiki)
• Online Fictional elements (i.e., create a fictional toy company website, create a fictional blog with content readers use, invent a Facebook profile for a character in your story, create a photo set in Flickr designed by a fictional character)
• Website use (i.e., go to the NASA website to find the name of the rocket that launched in March 1965 to help solve a mystery, use Google Maps to check the distance between two locations, use AllRecipesto find the ingredients in a recipe)

How it might look:

• Animal Poetry with transmedia elements: photographs and drawings of animal tracks, animal track website... identifying the mystery animal.
• Family Diary Transcription with transmedia elements: historical photos from the family, video interviews with family members... telling a family story.
• Mystery Short Story with transmedia elements: artwork from the National Gallery of Art website, audio dialog and storytelling using Voki... solve an art mystery.
• Travel Adventure Story Game with transmedia elements: Flickr photos posted by fictional characterand Google Earth... where in the world is Uncle Sylvester?
• An Army of Dolphins Comic with transmedia elements: comic life and photos, military websites... what's the true world role of marine life such as dolphins and sea lions in the military?

Group Project roles

The Transmedia Project: Roles

AGENDA:

Discussion of individual roles and responsibilities within the group:

Everyone should have a significant writing project--story line, character sketches, brochure, newspaper, journal, blog, script for movie trailer, diary entries, instructional manual, history of the town, family tree, etc.

Additional responsibilities MAY include visual material: maps, drawings, comic book, etc.

Multiple platforms need multiple experts in the making. “You’re not building a story. You’re building a universe” says Susan Bell to describe the numerous branches and interactions that need to be put together when producing a transmedia experience. Transmedia producers are responsible for building the team that will create the magic, mixing complementary skills and finding the right balance between extraordinary creativity (storytellers, game designers, story architects) and top notch execution (developers, community managers, planners, filmmakers, copywriters, etc.). How do you get them to work together and understand each other? How do you transfer the vision when the project goes from hands to hands? Good luck with that.

PLEASE POST WHAT EACH MEMBER OF YOUR GROUP IS WORKING ON.  IF SOMEONE IS NOT DOING A WRITING PROJECT, THEY SHOULD COME UP WITH ONE!  THE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR GRADE!

Please read the following article and discuss it with your group.  Post your thoughts about the article here as a comment.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/here-are-the-5-things-that-make-a-good-transmedia-project

MultiGenres--What Will You Use?

AGENDA:

Work on setting up franchise and group responsibilities

Individually and in groups, students look over the following list of genres to determine what can be created to support their "storyworlds" in addition to using other media platforms. 

A Brief List of Genres:

• Journal Entries
• Personal Letter
• Greeting Card
• Schedule/Things to Do List
• Inner Monologue Representing Internal Conflicts
• Classified or Personal Ads
• Personal Essay or Philosophical Questions
• Top Ten List/Glossary or Dictionary
• Poetry
• Song Lyrics
• Autobiographical Essay
• Contest Entry Application
• Business Letter or Correspondence/Persuasive or Advocacy Letter
• Biographical Summary
• Critique of a Published Source
• Speech or Debate
• Historical Times Context Essay
• Textbook Article
• Science Article or Report/Business Article or Report
• Lesson Plan
• Encyclopedia Article
• Short Scene from a Play with Notes for Stage Directions
• Short Scene from a Movie with Notes for Camera Shots
• Dialogue of a Conversation among Two or More People
• Short Story
• Adventure Magazine Story
• Ghost Story
• Myth, Tall Tale, or Fairy Tale
• Talk Show Interview or Panel
• Recipe and Description of Traditional Holiday Events
• Classroom Discussion
• Character Analysis or Case Study
• Comedy Routine or Parody
• Liner Notes
• Picture book
• Chart or Diagram with Explanation and Analysis
• Brochure or Newsletter
• Time Line or Chain of Events
• Map with Explanation and Analysis
• Magazine or TV Advertisement or Infomercial
• Restaurant Description and Menu
• Travel Brochure Description
• How-To or Directions Booklet
• Receipts, Applications, Deeds, Budgets or Other Documents
• Wedding, Graduation or Special Event Invitation
• Birth Certificate
• Local News Report
• Pop-Up book
• Review and Poster for a Movie, Book, or TV Program
• Board Game or Trivial Pursuit with Answers and Rules
• Comic Strip or Graphic Novel excerpt
• Power Point Presentation
• Informational Video
• Web Site
• Future News Story
• Letter to the Editor
• Newspaper or Magazine Feature/Human Interest Story
• Obituary, Eulogy or Tribute
• News Program Story or Announcement
• Tabloid Article

View prezi:   https://prezi.com/vv-uf9k3u-3o/transmedia-storytelling-101-the-basics/

Film Treatment/ End of marking period

AGENDA:

Go over Transmedia posters.

Work on finishing FILM TREATMENT and other missing work for marking period.