ABSTRACT

Don’t restrict your creative property to one media channel. Make the essential leap to transmedia!

From film to television to games and beyond, Storytelling Across Worlds gives you the tools to weave a narrative universe across multiple platforms and meet the insatiable demand of today’s audience for its favorite creative property.

This, the first primer in the field for both producers and writers, teaches you how to:

* Employ film, television, games, novels, comics, and the web to build rich and immersive transmedia narratives

* Create writing and production bibles for transmedia property

* Monetize your stories across separate media channels

* Manage transmedia brands, marketing, and rights

* Work effectively with writers and producers in different areas of production

* Engage audiences with transmedia storytelling

Up-to-date examples of current transmedia and cross-media properties accompany each chapter and highlight this hot but sure-to-be enduring topic in modern media.

part 1|75 pages

Understanding Transmedia Storytelling

chapter 1|30 pages

One Story

chapter 2|23 pages

Worldbuilding and Key Story Elements

chapter 3|20 pages

Storytelling and Narrative Continuity

part 2|159 pages

Many Media

chapter 4|32 pages

Motion Pictures and Visual Storytelling

chapter 5|40 pages

Television and Serialized Storytelling

chapter 6|49 pages

Video Games and Interactive Storytelling

chapter 7|24 pages

Other Forms of Storytelling

chapter 8|11 pages

Choosing Properties and Forms

part 3|44 pages

Managing the Story

chapter 9|24 pages

Managing the Transmedia Property

chapter 10|18 pages

The Transmedia Intellectual Property Bible

part 4|3 pages

End Matters

chapter 11|1 pages

Wrap Up