I’m now officially in Frankfurt, Germany! As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ll be attending the B3 Biennale all of this week. All of my speaking engagements are this Saturday, October 10th. The details are on the B3 site, but I’ll post them here as well: Transmedia Producing Panel Saturday, 10/10 10:00 a.m. – 11 a.m. Historical “Villa Metzler” …
Transmedia Television: The Rise of Platform Agnostic Entertainment
Back at the end of July, a piece I wrote on transmedia television appeared on Huff Post Germany. Since I’m fairly certain there isn’t an English translation readily available on the web, I figured I should post that here. Transmedia Television: The Rise of Platform Agnostic Entertainment Something important happened on Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” this year, and if you …
Coefficient of Fiction
Welcome, everyone! It’s been a couple of years since I posted here, and in the intervening time, this blog’s purpose has evolved a bit. So whether you’re a longtime reader, or you’re discovering Coefficient of Fiction for the first time, I figured I probably ought to orient all of you as to the type of content you can expect to …
Project Updates: 2012 through 2015
And we’re back. Can you believe it’s been almost three years, guys? Neither can I! And, oh, so much has happened. Let’s start with what I’ve been working on: Last year, my brother and I helmed a little project called “Enter the Lodge.” In honor of Laura Palmer’s prophetic message to Dale Cooper in the Black Lodge, “I’ll see you …
Europe & UK Transmedia Speaking Tour – October 2015
I announced on social media a couple of months back that I’ll be flying to Germany this October to do a lecture on transmedia, but I’ve set up a few more speaking engagements while I’m there, so I thought I’d take a minute to let everyone know about those in more detail: For starters, I’m incredibly honored to be an …
Another War of the Worlds
In the film “The Man Who Knew Too Little,” Bill Murray’s character, Wallace Richie, visits his brother in London where he’s signed up for an avant garde experience called the Theater of Life. Essentially, the Theater of Life is a Live Action Role Playing experience, in which you, the client, pay for the privilege of playing a character against a …
Legacy
Historically, TV formats like procedurals and sitcoms have been among the most popular television programming. Shows that promote a kind of escapism, which, each and every episode, culminates in a mind-numbing return to the show’s status quo. As you might already be able to tell, this kind of storytelling has never really appealed to me. Truly serialized television storytelling is …
Consistent Story Worlds
At StoryWorld 2012, Jeff Gomez’s keynote was centered around what he called the 10 Commandments of 21st Century Franchise Production. Gomez went on to rate certain franchises based on how closely they adhered to these rules he’s laid down. I feel as if his list has been adequately covered elsewhere, so I’m not going to rehash it here, but I …
Narrative Necessity
So I’ve been thinking about something Brian Clark said in his keynote at StoryWorld 2012, how oftentimes part of our jobs as narrative designers is to give the audience the illusion of choice, something that’s echoed through a great deal of my own work and other transmedia experiences I’ve seen. And since Clark so thoroughly covered dead French and German …
StoryWorld 2012 Part 2: The Future of ARGs
Welcome to part 2 of my StoryWorld 2012 recap. From here on out, instead of doing this one panel at a time, I’ll be focusing on themes that ran throughout the conference. This week, we’ll be talking about the future of Alternate Reality Games. On the Way Forward panel at this year’s StoryWorld conference, some of the biggest names in …