Transmedia Storytelling!

So I've found this to be quite intriguing, though i feel like we should have done this at the start of 2nd year because its really quite a creative project and i think i would have been so much more excited and involved, whereas now i feel like its going to be rushed, especially with all the deadlines. but anywho, aside from that, i am looking forward to expanding on our reasearching and developing our story onto screen.

So in brief, the idea is to come up with a ‘natively’ Transmedia fiction, which is to be developed within four media elements, such as: videos, maps, images, games,apps, audio and social media.

My group consists of myself, Becca and Gemma, and I'm extremly happy to be working with them, as i think we're all at the same level with ideas and creativity. Initially our first idea was just an outline to get us going, and looking into it within more depth.

We each listed things that we maybe wanted to incorporate into our idea, some a bit out there, but it got us thinking more creatively, so here they are:

Pirates

Attic

Young woman

Painting

Differnt alternative universe

Step back in time

Animals

Thriller?

So with that , our concept developed quite quickly. We should start off with a girl, around our age group, as we think people in our demographic today our more likely to participate within these types of story telling, however, we our focusing more on the female gender, with the main protagonist being a woman, around the age of 20-23.

So could an attic come into it? A paining?

What if she finds an old paining and she gets transported into this whole other world, and ultimately the story is her travelling through different paintings, within the painining, finding clues on the way to understand why she's there, and to escape.

BAM!

Its wasn't very detailed but we had a story

So i suggested, when this woman finds the painting, in an attic, maybe a family relative as died, or gone missing and she is being forced to go through their belongings, and she stumbles upon it.. maybe the girl in the painting could be the girls grandmother, or her sister, or her maybe in a different life? because she finds the 'original' in like her attic or her mothers (whos recently died) attic. shes freaked out because it looks exactly like her..

*UPDATE

we found this was far too complex a story to begin, however, in the end we have managed to create a detailed story.

We need to get the audience involved, so the idea is..

To start off with a short video explaining the start of the story, leading them into the world, up tot he point where she is standing in front of a painting

CV Workshop and talk

So today was the Cv Workshop and the Fact talk.

Today was kind of a strange day because I went into it thinking, hey, I know how to write a cv, and honestly, I have nothing to put on a 'media CV anyway' but honestly it had made me come to the realization that i just really need to knuckle down now.

For a while, I hadn't known what i wanted out of this course, and where it was going to take me, so I was unmotivated, and just didn't know what i ultimately needed to do, or what i was interested in anymore.

However. I know that if i want to achieve something I need to try hard, I need to focus, and I need to be confident in what i'm doing.

I've now developed my cv, and i'm looking into to smaller opportunities for over the next 6 months to help me with the work based learning week, where i will have to do 80 hours working in a media industry.

I'm actually quite looking forward to the experience, because the past year i haven't felt very involved within the media, and if i have't really learnt anything new. So I need to put myself out there if i want to learn and get somewhere!

So here's to finally being motivated!!!