This past week I did a guest blogging stint with my favorite website: io9. It's a gawker owned site that offer up science fiction news and snarky commentary by the megaton. I wrote a couple of from the hip posts for them made some comments here and there. And polished it all off with an interview that's just gone up over there. I had a blast. It reminded me how I've been neglecting Global Couch. Now that cool things worth talking about are starting to happen with DAY ONE at NBC -- I figure I should start blogging about it all! So look for more blah-blah-blah activity here starting this week!
Here's a rambling snatch from the io9 interview about transmedia storytelling:
IO9: "You're talking about what you've called on your blog "Transmedia Storytelling"; that there's going to be Day One the television show, but that there's also going to be Day One the web presence, and comic books as well... Is that how you see storytelling in general now? Multiple platforms for one story?"
ME: "I certainly do see storytelling as going across multiple platforms now, but that really has a lot to do with how I grew up as a kid. As I always say, everything I learned about everything comes from Star Wars. For me, those movies were so impactful on me, such a consuming reaction. But it was also playing with the action figures, reading the comics, reading the books, playing the games, making Star Wars movies of my own... All that stuff just imprinted itself in my head. So when I think about the worlds that I create, I just automatically imagine the expanded universe component and get excited about using the different platforms to tell the story in new ways."
ME: "I'm very lucky that transmedia storytelling, crossplatform narrative, is so important right now in the entertainment business, in all facets of it, whether it's a video game or a movie or a TV show, it's important to be able to extend your story across platforms to be able to reach the fractured audiences that are experiencing the stories in so many different places and in so many different ways. I'm lucky to be able to think about that stuff naturally."
You can find the entire interview and links to my other i09 posts by clicking HERE!
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The Global Couch is a way to visualize the massive paradigm shift in the way audiences parse entertainment. In a broadband world, the couch is now on the web. Jesse Alexander gives his observations from the frontlines of transmedia entertainment.
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on 8/30/2009
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