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What Will They Do? Transmedia Producers as Narrative Architects « Asmedia - 5 views

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The transmedia producer thus holds a different type of skill set, one that draws connections across media forms and one that involves conceptualizing, analyzing, and designing experiences at the macro-level. It is a person that does not just dive into the transmedia realm with a laundry list of media to explore, but actually has a deep understanding of the relationship between content, context, and culture.
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transmedia producers must understand the unique storytelling potential behind each media platform. Certain stories lend themselves to particular media and vice versa. And as more narrative complexities threaten to impede comprehension , transmedia producers guard against blatant inconsistencies and contradictions. The narrative structure they design must be durable and organized, all while allowing room for future construction and additions.
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the transmedia producer will have an incredible knack for activating communities and rewarding collective intelligence.
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Transmedia producers possess storytelling talent, yes, but they should also appreciate the complex relationship between story and game, author and audience, openness and closure, art and commodity. They are as well versed in any sector of the entertainment industry as they are in popular culture and fandom as a whole.
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Brett Boessen on 12 Apr 10

Is there a better description of the concrete skills a liberal arts education offers than the description of what transmedia producers do outlined here?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Is there a better description of the concrete skills a liberal arts education offers than the description of what transmedia producers do outlined here?</div>

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Jason Mittell on 13 Apr 10

Brett - Aaron's my former student, so I'll take your compliment once removed! He's a very smart fellow...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Brett - Aaron's my former student, so I'll take your compliment once removed! He's a very smart fellow...</div>

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Brett Boessen on 13 Apr 10

You know, that just makes complete sense now that you say that: it would be hard to imagine someone who was not the product of a solid liberal arts education making such a coherent and persuasive argument for its value in this way.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">You know, that just makes complete sense now that you say that: it would be hard to imagine someone who was not the product of a solid liberal arts education making such a coherent and persuasive argument for its value in this way.</div>

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Bryan Alexander on 15 Apr 10

Brett, the liberal arts connection really sings in passages like this: "The best architects draw on a range of influences, disciplines, and perspectives, taking into account history, theory, and criticism to develop innovating concepts. Likewise, I see a similar approach to the emerging field of transmedia studies..."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Brett, the liberal arts connection really sings in passages like this: "The best architects draw on a range of influences, disciplines, and perspectives, taking into account history, theory, and criticism to develop innovating concepts. Likewise, I see a similar approach to the emerging field of transmedia studies..."</div>

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Brett Boessen on 15 Apr 10

Agreed, Bryan. Media Studies has always been deeply interdisciplinary, and transmedia strikes me as pushing it even further in that direction (or perhaps pulling into itself the most interdisciplinary facets of MS).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Agreed, Bryan. Media Studies has always been deeply interdisciplinary, and transmedia strikes me as pushing it even further in that direction (or perhaps pulling into itself the most interdisciplinary facets of MS).</div>

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South Korea to put curfew on online games for kids | Lifestyle | Reuters - 0 views

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Fun Inc: Why Games Are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business by Tom Chatfield | Book... - 1 views

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Fun Inc.: Why Games are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business by Tom Chatfield 288pp, Virgin Books, £11.99
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games might involve a lot of effort, but the payoff is that "effort is always rewarded".
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First, games are interesting in themselves, as constructions of space, logic and ideas (games are "a kind of playground for the mind"); second, they are interesting in their potential effect on other realms.
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he possibility of using gamelike structures to produce empirical results in the social sciences
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Chatfield's emphasis on games' fecund variety, on the other hand, will be valuable to non-specialists: he writes evocatively not just about Grand Theft Auto but about indie gems such as Passage, where your quest is meaningless and you die after five minutes. His comparison of videogames to installation art, meanwhile, is striking, and he even manages to make World of Warcraft sound interesting – though his awed description of a particular sword as being "the length of a full-grown orc" is rather lovable nonsense to someone who doesn't know how long orcs grow.
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"the best games are a trigger for discussion, reading and writing – not an end to it"
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Ed Webb on 02 Apr 10

games might involve a lot of effort, but the payoff is that "effort is always rewarded".

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