Tag Archives: Transmedia

Transmedia Storytelling and Entertainment: A Syllabus

Since the announcement that Futures of Entertainment 4 will focus on transmedia, since I’m actually on it (twice – check out August 24th and October 5th) and – most importantly – since Henry asked me to, I’m republishing Henry’s syllabus for the transmedia storytelling class he’s offering at USC this fall. The following post originally […]

Transmedia Storytelling and Entertainment: A Syllabus

Since the announcement that Futures of Entertainment 4 will focus on transmedia, since I’m actually on it (twice – check out August 24th and October 5th) and – most importantly – since Henry asked me to, I’m republishing Henry’s syllabus for the transmedia storytelling class he’s offering at USC this fall. The following post originally […]

Whedon’s New Business Model ‘Horribly’ Awesome

Last week Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania posted an excellent in-depth interview with Joss Whedon that is one of the best pieces of from-the-trenches insight that I’ve read in ages – especially in how Whedon digs into the emerging business model of independently-produced Internet content. Whedon is best known as the creator of the […]

The Future of Entertainment is… Paper?

Man, I hate hearing about an awesome conference just after the thing’s wrapped up. So it is this week with PaperCamp, which went down in London on January 17th. Here’s the description of the event from its own webpage: What is PaperCamp? A get-together for a day to talk about, fiddle with, make and explore […]

iTunes Network Ratings Boost and the State of IPTV

Good news for those of us living in the 21st century! NBC is crediting the iTunes Store with boosting their ratings: NBC’s “The Office” delivered a 5.1-its highest ratings ever-last Thursday among adults 18 to 49, a bump the network credits in large part to the show’s popularity as an iPod download. In fact, the […]

The Adult Swim Channel?

Another notable post from TVSquad: the Adult Swim channel? It’s a throwaway line in a holiday wishlist (and a hearty amen to his wish for complete seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000), but it raises an interesting question. Would it make sense to create a full-fledged Adult Swim network? On the one hand, I bellow […]

The TV Learning Curve

So here’s an interesting little post from my morning’s readings: TYSquad’s top five shows that got much better after the first season. Their list: Seinfeld Friends The Odd Couple Star Trek: The Next Generation The Simpsons The list is insightful (swing by for their reasons), but this makes me think even fruther about reversing the […]

IPTV not yet a viable business model?

News.com has an interesting piece on independent online-only TV production: Aspiring TV writers get their chops together online. The piece profiles J.D. Rynzar’s “Yacht Rock”, an offbeat show found online at Channel 101, an IPTV outlet for LA comedy writers. However, the disturbing part of the article is as follows: Despite their growing popularity, Channel […]

Graphic novel of The Fountain v.1, film of The Fountain v.2

Well, this is a form of transmedia I hadn’t considered before. We film geeks have been following Darren Arnofsky’s latest project The Fountain ever since his last film wrapped. The story sounds amazing, following explorers pursuing the Fountain of Youth, only cycling through three iterations: first in conquistador-era Spain, second in the modern day, and […]

Amazing Race bonus round an online exclusive

TV Squad turns in another interesting report with the news that Amazing Race will post an exclusive ‘bonus round’ episode on CBS.com after the end of the ‘official’ season on Dec. 13. From the official press release: For the first time ever, the teams who finish in second and third place during the two hour […]