Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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Tech up your Format: 15 MIPFormats Commandments

Tech up your Format: 15 MIPFormats Commandments | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"A well-chosen diversity of tech journalists and techies each imparted their own “10 Tech Commandments” to MIPFormats today, as C21Media’s David Jenkinson moderated. From the resulting 30, we extracted 15 that captured shared ideas or yielded new paths."

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One Screen To Rule Them All

One Screen To Rule Them All | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
While hosting this year’s Academy Awards, Billy Crystal cracked, “I prefer the big screen… which is my iPad.”


DRC:  A look at how tablets are changing the way we view traditional television.

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A 3D Production Guide for 3D Television Production by 3net

A 3D Production Guide for 3D Television Production by 3net | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The 3D television production studio and 3D TV channel 3net along with its partners Discovery, Sony and IMAX have released a comprehensive manual for stereoscopic 3D pre-production, 3D workflows, 3D post-processing ...

 

[This also includes a link to the free download of the PDF manual ... very useful!]


Via Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist
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Tanlines' 'Brothers' Video Is A 360 Degree Experience

Tanlines' 'Brothers' Video Is A 360 Degree Experience | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Panoramic video product and software company GoPano introduced 360 degree video to the masses with their iPhone app and attachable lens.

 

[This is fun to play with :)  ]

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TV looks to new era of interactive game shows to lure the Facebook generation

TV looks to new era of interactive game shows to lure the Facebook generation | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The Million Pound Drop and The Bank Job are proving a bit hit with internet audiences, but it is the data collected from online players which is making advertisers take notice...

 

[A look at how British TV is using new technology to create interactive shows that successfully compete with the "myriad distractions of social networking sites, computer games and even food and drink".]

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Fiction gets technology makeover

Fiction gets technology makeover | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
LJ Rich investigates the possibilities of multimedia story-telling by getting dressed up for a starring role in a multimedia project.
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Kodak: why the moment has passed

Kodak: why the moment has passed | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Just as the music industry was rocked by the world of downloads after the launch of the CD, Kodak fell foul of new technology...
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Smart TVs: How Do They Work?

Smart TVs: How Do They Work? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Just what exactly is it that makes a Smart TV, well…smart?

 

[You'll want to know ... because their arrival, to living rooms everywhere, is imminent.]

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What's Hot in Digital Entertainment at CES?

What's Hot in Digital Entertainment at CES? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Christina talked about how hard it is to get one of those fancy, giant TVs into a New York City apartment, why 3D technology may not be there yet, and she offers a special message to Justin Timberlake on his Myspace venture...
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A Sneak Peek At The TVs Of The Future

A Sneak Peek At The TVs Of The Future | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Each year begins for technologists and geeks with the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for CES. It's easy to write off this massive technology trade show as an outdated, overrated, and overhyped gizmo-fest.
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50 things killed by technology

50 things killed by technology | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Ringing the cinema to check film times, owning an encyclopaedia and dialling 1471 are among 50 things killed off by modern technology, according to a new poll.
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Storytelling 2.0: Cowbird Classes Up Our Communication

Storytelling 2.0: Cowbird Classes Up Our Communication | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
After testing it out on himself and 100 other storytellers, Jonathan Harris launches Cowbird, a website that seeks to become the ultimate public library of human experience.
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SoLoMo And The Future Of Mobile Technology

SoLoMo And The Future Of Mobile Technology | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Every industry is, and will increasingly be affected by mobile devices and location-sensing technology. What we're seeing today in the arenas of local commerce, deals, and productivity is only the beginning.

 

[This got me thinking about the role of hyper-local in transmedia storyworlds ....]

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Story-Hack: Where Storytelling and Technology Meet

Story-Hack: Where Storytelling and Technology Meet | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"Many storytellers find that they lack the basic concepts of technology (from web design to coding). Likewise technologists have difficulty developing engaging narratives for their projects. Connecting the two groups is the primary focus of the New York transmedia community. This is how it began" ...

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SXSW Panels' Illustrated Recaps For 'Ogilvy Notes' (SLIDESHOW)

SXSW Panels' Illustrated Recaps For 'Ogilvy Notes' (SLIDESHOW) | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Austin's South By Southwest festival is known for the massive chaos that is the music industry taking over the city, but it's also gaining wide recognition for its tech side.


"Advertising house Ogilvy helped out with an illustrated system to make sense of some of the best [tech] panels during SXSW."

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Sherlock: A Perspective on Technology and Story Telling

Sherlock: A Perspective on Technology and Story Telling | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
If nothing else, Sherlock forces us to recognize how much of our 21st century lives are mediated by technology and what that technology says about us...

 

[An interesting look at the latest interpretation of those classic Sherlock Holmes' mysteries.]

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The BBC is experimenting with Perceptive Media, and it could transform TV forever

The BBC is experimenting with Perceptive Media, and it could transform TV forever | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using your Facebook data? Or when Google put your place of birth into Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown video?

 

[Can't say I'm a big fan of this concept ... I prefer the idea of social TV where the viewer is active and, more directly, in control of their experience.]

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Oscar 2012: Sebastian Sylwan Talks Apes, Art and Technology

Oscar 2012: Sebastian Sylwan Talks Apes, Art and Technology | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Weta Digital’s CTO talks about the technological challenges of producing some of the most compelling and captivating performances in cinema today.

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Exploring the Future Normal at New Frontier 2012

Exploring the Future Normal at New Frontier 2012 | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
“Consumer culture positions technology to expand and transcend human limitations,” Frilot says. “But the works here have another vision, where media technology integration really sustains our humanity, fortifies the cornerstones of what makes us human—our social nature and creativity.”

 

[A look at the new media works at this year's Sundance: New Frontier.]

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Study shows that kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

Study shows that kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Growing up with the Internet gives today’s children a very unique view on the way the world works — one that is vastly different from that of older generations.
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Transmedia comes alive via tech toys

Transmedia comes alive via tech toys | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Transmedia should be an easy concept to understand: Create a project that can play across multiple platforms. Walking the show floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center, during CES, all of those various screens are on full display..
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Smart TVs: The next tech war is in the living room

Smart TVs: The next tech war is in the living room | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Searching for the next frontier of tech? Look no further than your TV.
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6 Teenage Inventors That Changed The World

6 Teenage Inventors That Changed The World | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Give a kid a car and he's probably going to see how high he can ramp it off something. But that sholdn't negate the fact that some very ambitious teens have changed the world.
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The Memory Glasses: Google's AR-Amped Specs Reveal A Brave, Branded New World

The Memory Glasses: Google's AR-Amped Specs Reveal A Brave, Branded New World | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
So what we're looking at is a genuine piece of Google high-tech goggle trickery that may be getting close to real production levels...
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Shakespeare goes social: Mozilla Popcorn in the classroom

Shakespeare goes social: Mozilla Popcorn in the classroom | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
I think we’re seeing the birth of a new genre of interactive film — “hyper-video,” “social video,” or pop-up video on steroids — that will revolutionize multimedia in the classroom, and maybe even the lingua franca of learning in general...
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