Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

PSFK Labs:  "From spoken word to moving pictures new technologies have become the springboard for producers and audiences to create and share their personal tales."

Michael Anderson:  "Over the summer, the creators of the Emmy Award-winning web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries launched an experimental follow-up project based on an unfinished Jane Austen novel. In Welcome to Sanditon, audience members were invited to assume roles as Sanditon residents while a modernized interpretation of Austen’s final work unfolded as a web series."

Rae Ann Fera:  "After releasing a shot-list over Twitter that anyone could film for submission Airbnb debuts the first film made entirely of crowdsourced Vines."

A fabulously in-depth look at how publishing is meeting the challenges of changing audience behaviours.

Josh Constine:  "There is a battle raging for curated social media supremacy. When big things happen, each of these apps wants to be where you see the best of and behind the scenes."

Sandra Gaudenzi:  "Digital Me is an adventure that started more than a year ago when I got obsessed with the idea of using personalisation to make a story that could speak to each user in a private and meanigful way. I had seen Take This Lollipop, by Jason Zada, and thought it was very clever, but I somehow felt that using personal data to speak about the self would be more helpful than using it to scare people.  How could we use data mining to empower users – rather than to sell them things? And could this narrative be a tool for self-reflection?"

Fiona Milburn talks with Ingrid Kopp, director of Digital Initiatives at the Tribeca Film Institute in New York, about creating interactive narratives.

Paula Bernstein:  "Usually moviegoers are instructed to turn off their smartphones while watching a film, but with "App," the new Dutch thriller directed by Bobby Boermans, viewers are encouraged to keep their phones on in order to experience the second-screen content."

Abigail Maravalli:  "Whether webisodes are released before a film, as follow-up to a finished film, or as a standalone project, they are becoming a viable way of starting and continuing public discourse. Here are three ways filmmakers are utilizing webisodes."

An interesting look at the future of reading and our relationship with what we read.

Interesting look at how Ed Burns developed a "model for near certain profit" ... something I think we all strive for.

Tags: Distribution, Independent Film, Storytelling