Group A: The Professor from Brad King on Vimeo.

This is the description for The Professor, one of The Soho Theatre transmedia storytelling groups this summer

Group B: Formerly The Oracle from Brad King on Vimeo.

This is the description for what was once The Oracle, one of The Soho Theatre transmedia storytelling groups this summer. This was changes at the last minute, so…check it out.

Tonight’s presentations were all about creating and building structures for their transmedia ideas.

How very analog.

I’ll post the final story presentations in the morning. (I need to get them uploaded first.) But thanks to everyone who participated, Nina and The Soho Theatre and everyone who had anything to do with the project.

What fun!

• Elan Lee, of , in Rolling Stone:
  • Part 1 of the interview
  • Part 2 of the interview
• The ADRIFT text generator: a software tool that enables you to build virtual text adventures (with images, ect).

Group Links:

Group A:

• Librarian Blog: this is one of the main characters in Act 1 who will help kick off the story
• Chris’ Blog: the main character in Act 1 who will help kick off the stor

Group B:

• Flaxin’s Frequencies: this is the professor’s blog, she’s the main character
• Future Back Corporation: this is the main company in the first Act
• Talisman images

• Blogger: This is Google’s blog software
• WordPress: This software gives you much greater customization and image manipulation

Places to Upload Video:

• YouTube: This is Google’s video site. You can upload up to 10-minute videos
• Vimeo: This is another video sharing site, which allows for longer videos to be posted

You can upload videos and embed them in your site. Need help doing that? Let me know and I’ll do it for you until I can teach you how

For Giggles:

• Plus this into Google and click on Maps: 51.514351, -0.132958

• We Tell Stories: 21 Steps: Google Map mashup + story
• Lewis Hamilton: secret life: David Varela’s current project
• PlayStation Home:

Links from tonight:

• The Unfiction forums: here is a place where ARG players come
• Photosynth: This is a Microsoft software application that will stitch together different photographs, which may be used for a story about constructing a human body
• Fourth Wall Studios: This is a group that put together some of the early ARGs
• No Mimes Media: A transmedia storytelling group
• This Is Where I…: My former student’s website where she solicits images and pictures from people
• Learning to Love You More

Your sites:

• The Professor Group
• The Oracle Group

Also, here’s a link to Improv Everywhere and the video we referenced the other evening: Frozen Grand Central.

We’ll be tinkering with these ideas in the next few days, but here’s the first attempts at the prologue for your stories. We’ll be exploring Act 1 (my parlance) tomorrow and creating some materials that I can play with.

We’ll be constructing website text, pictures (if you want), sound distortions, video. And building small pieces to let you see how your narrative CAN flow in the digital spaces.

Looking forward to it. And now…

Group A:

Group B:

• Alternative Reality Game terms

Perplex City:

• Perplex City Wikipedia page: Here’s an explanation of the project as a whole
• The main site: This is a good overview of the “city” and the “story” created in the game.
• Season One: This is the outline used to create the touch points for the story. (These are the pre-determined plot points.)

What Happened To Sarah:

• Introductory Video to the What Happened to Sarah ARG

DarkNet:

• Overview of the Exoriare ARG
• Rabbit Hole website for Exoriare
• Graphic Novel (go to page 13 and click on the computer to get into the game)

The Go Game:

• Game website overview

Remembering Eva:

• Original post/Rabbit Hole for this ARG

The ARG Story Problem:

My friend Andrea Phillips gave a talk at SXSW Interactive this year called “ARGs and Women: Moving Beyond the Hot Brunette.” It’s a must-see for writers.

• a list (bullet points or scratched out thoughts) based upon the writing exercise about the themes you might want to explore; and
• a list of the types of stories you might want to tell

The list of story types:

• Text Adventure: using the ADRIFT software, you would use a script, images and the software tool to create a text-only adventure for the computer
• Distributed Documentary: using pre-defined story elements, you would create a framework for a story and then we’ll spend our time out and about in London “filling in the blanks” using FlipCams and your still digital cameras (and audio recorders if you have them)’
  • Lost Zombies: The site’s producers have created a framework for a story and they are asking individuals to contribute scenes to their work
• The Lonely Girl: a completely closed-scripted story and interactive website with all the materials created by you (video, audio, script, text)
  • The YouTube Channel: You can watch all the videos here
  • The Wikipedia page explaining the project
• The World Without Oil: An open-ended, interactive website and community with some pre-defined elements created by you and some community building to promote what you have done
  • Welcome to a World Without Oil: an overview documentary of how this game/story was assembled
• The Object Remix: A re-cutting of material that already exists to reshape it – or re-cutting something that exists and encouraging a reproduction of it.
  • Star Wars Uncut: Here is the Star Wars fan site where thousands of people are re-shooting Star Wars IV: A New Hope

Videos from class:

• The ilovebees Phenomenon
• Leroy Jenkins machinima
• Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk: Gaming can make a better world
• Red Versus Blue (RvB)
• 17 things I made
• My Second Life machinima

For Further Reading:

• WTF is Transmedia?
• Why So Serious: Lessons in Transmedia World Building
• Transmedia Tales and the Future of Storytelling
• Machinima Wikipedia page

Links:

• Citizen Logistics + Groundcrew
• Kickstarter
• subtlemob
• improveverywhere

Today’s assignment:

1. You will post your readings on the Wiki.
2. Along with that, you will have a document – annotated – that describes to me what you are using from each of the readings. You will EMAIL me that document. Don’t post that on the Wiki.

Please have this to me by 5 pm per the assignment criteria on the Wiki.