Digital Storytelling. StoryCode: Immersive Storytelling | Home. Transmedia Project Reference Guide (bible) 33 Great Apps for Storytelling and Creativity. 2013 Update… Here are the main apps I suggest for storytelling. Some of them are actual bookmaking apps, some are apps for creating stories in various ways and others are apps I would use to help kids plan out a story. I have listed them in the order of importance for my classroom. I think the first 10 on the list are a must have for all elementary classrooms. Educreations FREE- (example HERE and HERE) There is also a web version of this tool StoryBuddy 2 $4.99- (example HERE and HERE) Explain Everything $2.99- (example HERE and HERE and HERE) Toontastic FREE*- (example HERE and HERE) Feltboard $2.99- (examples HERE and HERE and HERE) Skitch FREE- for labeling (example HERE and HERE) There is also a web version of this tool Popplet $4.99- (example HERE and HERE) There is a “lite” version of the app and is also web based Tellagami- FREE- Much like Voki but in app form.
Write About This $3.99- creates prompts for kids and reads the prompt to them Sock Puppets FREE* (post with examples HERE) My Story. 64 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information. StoryCode: Immersive Storytelling | Home. Transmedia Case Study: The Three Little Pigs. If the Three Little Pigs were told as a transmedia story it might be designed like this: The basic story would be told in an anchoring medium, such as a novel, TV show, or film. In this case, it’s a short story.There are four primary characters to expand and explore: three pigs and a wolf. There are also deeper themes of hard work, planning, collaboration, family and persistence underlying the main story arc.The first round of expansion: Pig 1 has a blog which details the family history and complicated family dynamics that led to the pigs decision to live apart rather than together.
The hypothetical transmedia version of the Three Little Pigs is not the repurposing of story across different platforms. It is the creation of a holistic narrative that unfolds in different and unique manners across different media. It allows for a dialogue between creator and participant. Adventures in Transmedia | nextrends. Share it! Leveraging the individual strengths of multiple storytelling platforms, transmedia builds a storyworld meant to engage and involve its audience and delivers an informative, entertaining experience. By Andrea Muller, Project Manager, and Johann Recordon, Junior Project Manager, swissnex San Francisco On September 17, I was in New York City. It was the first anniversary of the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, and the police were everywhere. As I walked down Wall Street, I came across a rather disturbing advertisement.
Still, I couldn’t resist visiting the Byzantium Security website, which at first looked like any other corporate website. A few days later, I received an email from Agent Sam Hunter warning me that Byzantium could not be trusted anymore. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts Robert Pratten, zenfilms.com Transmedia provides new content and insights to the story universe or characters through each contribution. If Heidi were a transmedia story. Transmedia Storytelling. “Transmedia storytelling” is telling a story across multiple media and preferably, although it doesn’t always happen, with a degree of audience participation, interaction or collaboration. In transmedia storytelling, engagement with each successive media heightens the audience’ understanding, enjoyment and affection for the story.
To do this successfully, the embodiment of the story in each media needs to be satisfying in its own right while enjoyment from all the media should be greater than the sum of the parts. Before expanding on how to create transmedia experiences, let’s ask ourselves two questions: Why would you want to tell stories? And why tell stories across multiple media? Why Tell Stories? We tell stories to entertain, to persuade and to explain. Our minds do not like random facts or objects and so they create their own stories to make sense of otherwise discrete, isolated events and items. Great stories win hearts and minds. Why Multiple Media? Next >>