Week 6

Turn a story idea into a transmedia story. You can use the story provided or you can make one up on the fly. These elements must be used:

Book format
Movie format
TV Animation format
Song format
Dance format
Iphone App format
Website format
Game format
One of these must be an extension of one character

Get into groups and perhaps each person can focus on each segment.
So what you need to do is break the story up into sections, and decide what format will work for each segment. AND in what order the segments will come.
Once you have the layout that you think is best, you need to explain each section. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do any dancing! (Unless you want to… I’ll consider it participation).
You have to decide which character deserves the extension, and in what format will the extension come. Will it be a main character that the audience loves or indeed one of the more minor characters who may need more said about them to flesh out the fictional world?
In your movie format section, you must draw up a storyboard on the templates provided, if you need more room for explanation, you can use your notebooks.
For the TV animation format you must decide whether this should come before or after the movie is released, or in fact if it runs at the same time.
The same applies for the book format, so you must decide which parts of the story get told in the book, but will not be told in any of the other sections, etc. Remember to question how this book will be distributed… you can have it as an e-book as well as a paper bound book.
You must re-write one part of the story to make is suitable for the song format. So a lot of editing may be required, a lot of rewording perhaps to simplify matters, and if possible, make it rhyme. A basic pop song goes for about three and a half minutes, has two stanzas and then a chorus, then a third stanza and then the chorus again - something to keep in mind.
You must decide which part of the story needs no words and can be retold through the dance medium, and what kind of dance would be used (would it be a ballet, a contemporary piece etc). Remember to ask yourself when this segment will appear etc. As well as releasing your song at some stage, you can use your song inside of your dance if you wish to, turning your dance into a Broadway style piece.
You must design your website and decide what it makes available to the user (what will the content be?).
You must design your Iphone App and decide what it makes available to the user.
You must design your game – what mediums will it be available on? What characters will the user be able to play as? Will there be a main one? What struggles/levels will be faced? When will you release it and how will it be marketed Etc.