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Category Archives: transmedia

Ruffus the Dog: A Christmas Carol

Talk about DIY!
What can you make at home with the help of a few friends and a few thousand bucks raised on Indiegogo?  If you’re Rob Mills the answer is an awesome broadcast quality Christmas special for the whole family… which you then give away for the whole Internet to enjoy for free.
Don’t read, just watch…  although, Ruffus the […]

Introducing Anti-Social

Anti-Social is a digital drama about four teenage residents in an experimental treatment facility: Jessica Jamerson, wrongly convicted but not beaten; Harry, the deeply hurt lone wolf; Flame, a flower child with an affection for fire and Grainger, some rich kid who decked the principal. Their treatment involves the radically new virtual milieu therapy, […]

Money Talk From A Guy Who Knows

Nuno Bernardo, the smartest man in transmedia today, on financing and business models:
…why do producers keep saying that there is still no business model in transmedia (and other forms of digital online content)?
The answer is: the problem is not the business model, or the possibility of producers making money on their digital content experiments, […]

Chasing Money

Do we really need funding? Is finding financing really the way to start a project?
Old media producers start projects by looking for money. In most cases, the only people who do work before the financing falls into place are the writer/creator who puts together the pitch document or original proposal and the producer, who […]

The Birth of a New Language

Michel Reilhac’s wonderful talk from Power to the Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum last month.

Michel Reilhac: The Birth of a Language from Power to the Pixel on Vimeo.

Canada: Transmedia Heaven?

Are the streets of Canada paved with gold for transmedia creators? According to Carrie Cutforth-Young Storyworld was all abuzz with the notion. I heard exactly the same thing repeatedly a few weeks ago at Power to the Pixel’s London Forum.

When Nuno Bernardo, in his address on financing transmedia projects, said “move to Canada,” […]

Coke Goes Transmedia

In this video Jonathan Mildenhall, Vice-President, Global Advertising Strategy and Creative Excellence at The Coca-Cola Company is the person responsible for leading global creative vision and strategy for the Company’s portfolio of global brands. In this video he explains how Coke will leverage the opportunities in the new media landscape and transform one-way storytelling into […]

When to Share for Different Audiences

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Same content, new form:

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The New Language of Transmedia

A fantastic day at Power to the Pixel’s London Cross-Media Forum. The twelve presentations included five case studies which gave us an inside look at some of the coolest transmedia projects around today.
Of the morning presentations my favourite was probably The Birth of a Language by Michel Reilhac of ARTE France. Michel points out that in […]

Pixel Power

I’ve been a fan of Power to the Pixel ever since I found a cache of amazing videos, including Nina Paley talking about Sita Sings the Blues.
They hold an annual Cross-Media Forum every year which I’ve been dying to go to. Ted Hope said this about his experience at the event in 2009:
It is […]