Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

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Transmedia is the new space where visual storytelling exists because:

1. Every screen we can imagine (TV, smart phone, tablet, laptop and yes, the lowly desktop computer) is reached by Internet video, audio, text and images.

2. Every connected consumer can reach back— through each screen.

So 2011 is almost at a close, a year that went past like a whirlwind. There’s been an enormous amount of interest in, and discussion of, the notion of transmedia over the past twelve months, and we’ve seen the term slowly creep into widespread use in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue ...

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