Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

Sandra Gaudenzi:  "VR and 360 video projects have dominated the festival landscape this year, and small and big players want to catch the train while they can. Similar to the effect of The arrival of a train at La Ciotat (1895), the illusion of “being there” is associated with a wave of enthusiasm. Immersion and empathy are the new keywords, and the hope that this time we have found a technology that will trick our senses even more than the one before, seems to provoke a mini gold rush – or maybe just a high in the Gartner’s Media & Entertainment Hype Cycle."

John Jones:  "How the latest virtual reality tech is opening up a limitless, yet uncanny, world…"

John Jones:  "How the latest virtual reality tech is opening up a limitless, yet uncanny, world…"

John Jones:  "How the latest virtual reality tech is opening up a limitless, yet uncanny, world…"

Michael Morgenstern:  "My other films are narratives which seek to understand the human experience — YouTube 360º isn’t quite ready for that. What it is ready for is an lulz-filled environment with something interesting happening in every corner, where people can watch for thirty seconds or two hours."

Michael Morgenstern:  "My other films are narratives which seek to understand the human experience — YouTube 360º isn’t quite ready for that. What it is ready for is an lulz-filled environment with something interesting happening in every corner, where people can watch for thirty seconds or two hours."

Rob Kleiman:  "The impressive capabilities of drone technology are pushing a selection of filmmakers from every corner of the globe to create media using drones."

Rob Kleiman:  "The impressive capabilities of drone technology are pushing a selection of filmmakers from every corner of the globe to create media using drones."

Rob Kleiman:  "The impressive capabilities of drone technology are pushing a selection of filmmakers from every corner of the globe to create media using drones."

Melissa Locker:  "Shield 5 is a lot like Homeland or 24 but it lives on Instagram, and each captivating episode is just seconds long."

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imm3rsive:  "Digital storytelling keeps promising to put the audience in control. But as viewers, how much do we really want that?"

YES: "It isn’t romanticised print-book-in-hand ideologies that concern us as we plunge into narratives, it’s the voice of a storyteller."

Sue Ding:  "At Sundance's New Frontier, creators push the boundaries of storytelling and search for a new lexicon for VR."

Sue Ding:  "At Sundance's New Frontier, creators push the boundaries of storytelling and search for a new lexicon for VR."

VR + Storytelling.. mmmm.... juicy!!!!!

Liz Nord:  "According to a major production company VP, we're at a conjuncture in content creation where there are no rules. It's time to innovate."

Ryan Nakashima:  "Much the way early cinematographers had to discover cuts, wide shots and perspective, VR filmmakers find themselves making things up as they go along, often mashing up traditional movies and video-game techniques along the way."

Ryan Nakashima:  "Much the way early cinematographers had to discover cuts, wide shots and perspective, VR filmmakers find themselves making things up as they go along, often mashing up traditional movies and video-game techniques along the way."

Ryan Nakashima:  "Much the way early cinematographers had to discover cuts, wide shots and perspective, VR filmmakers find themselves making things up as they go along, often mashing up traditional movies and video-game techniques along the way."

Matt Barone:  "Imagine not just watching a horror movie but also being able to navigate throughout the film's creepy, ghouls-around-every-corner settings with a first-person POV of "found-footage" and the blood-splattering-over-your-eyeballs, dodging-the-killer's-knife physical sensations of 3D. That combination of sensations is what virtual reality brings to horror."

Matt Barone:  "Imagine not just watching a horror movie but also being able to navigate throughout the film's creepy, ghouls-around-every-corner settings with a first-person POV of "found-footage" and the blood-splattering-over-your-eyeballs, dodging-the-killer's-knife physical sensations of 3D. That combination of sensations is what virtual reality brings to horror."

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