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?