Transmedia Resources

Books, Podcasts, Research Papers &  Articles, Forums, Blogs & Websites, Transmedia Examples & Case Studies

Below is a growing list of resources we are in the process of pulling together about storytelling and collaboration across multiple media and platforms. All of these will help inform and educate about transmedia and its impact on a new brand of narrative. If you have any other resources you think would be helpful, especially other examples of transmedia experiences, please get in touch so we can include them here.

Tools & Other Applied Resources:

• Conductrr (tool for managing in-story social media)
• Cowbird (tool for visual documentation of story)
• Flixmaster (tool for creating interactive movies of the “choose your own adventure” variety)
• How To Build an Audience for Your Web Series: Market, Motivate and Mobilize  (detailed guide from the Independent Production Fund)
• How to Write a Transmedia Production Bible (guide from Screen Australia)
• If This Then That (synchronization service to automatically sets tasks across multiple platforms)
• Novlet (a web app for collectively compiling non-linear stories)
• SNO Game Engine (add a social media game to your story)
• The StoryLabs Network ( a transmedia community with mentors in Toronto, London, NYC and LA)
• StoryMash (an online community for collaborative fiction writers)
• Subtext (app for community interaction, sharing opinions and other media within an ebook)
• List of Transmedia Groups ( worldwide)
• Transmedia Keyword Research (December 2011)
• Transmedia LA’s Wiki/Toolkit (a database of gaming, publishing, writing, social media, technology & other useful resources)

Books:

• The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, Frank Rose (2011)
• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Henry Jenkins (2006)
• MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams (2010)
• The Producers Guide to Transmedia: How to Develop, Fund, Produce and Distribute Compelling Stories Across Multiple Platforms, Nuno Bernardo (2011)
• Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better And How They Can Change The World, Jane McGonigal (2011)

Podcasts:

• Hollywood 2.0
• Transmedia Talk on Culture Hacker

Research Papers & Articles:

• “Cautionary Tales in Transmedia Storytelling,” Wired Magazine, March 30, 2011
• “Creating Transmedia Narrative: The Structure & Design of Stories Told Across Multiple Media,” Peter von Stackelberg, December 2011
• “How To Do Propagation Planning,”  Griffin Farley, October 2010
• “JWT Explores Transmedia,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 2011
• “Reclaiming the Transmedia Storyteller,” Brian Clark, May 2, 2011 (need to login to Facebook)
• “Revenge of the Origami Unicorn” Part 1 and Part 2 , The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, December 2009
• “Transmedia: What Is it?“, PFSK, April 20, 2011
• “What the hell *is* Transmedia?” StevePeters.org, May 18, 2011
• “Why Transmedia is Catching On” Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, Nick DeMartino, July 2011
• “Your Mom is Transmedia,” 4DFiction, March 21, 2011

Forums, Blogs & Websites:

• 4D Fiction #transmedia
• Alternate Reality Gaming Network
• AppMarket.tv
• The Arlington Jump
• Balance of Powers
• Decode: Wired Magazine
• Empire State Collaborative Fiction Project
• Inside Social Games
• Media Psychology Impact: Transmedia
• Merging + Media
• Nick DeMartino’s Bookmark List of Transmedia Links
• Running with My Eyes Closed
• Seize the Media
• Silverstring Media
• Siobhan O’Flynn’s 1001 Tales
  
• Tedx Transmedia
• Transmedia Daily on Paper.li
• Transmedia Lab
• Transmedia Next
• Transmedia Ready Meetup Group
• Transmedia Vancouver Meetup Group
• From Search to Screen: Transmedia Blog Entries
• Transmediology
  
• Unfiction ARG Unforums
• You Suck at Transmedia

Transmedia Ideas, Examples & Case Studies:

• Adore
  
• Art of the Trench
• Beckinfield (Mass Participation TV)
• Being Henry
• Believe in Sherlock
• Benetton Casting Call
• Bjork’s Biophilia
• The Book of Jer3miah
• Caine’s Arcade
• Clockwork Watch
• The Code Treasure Hunt
• Collapsus
• The Colony Experiment
• Conspiracy for Good
• David Lynch’s Interview Project Germany
• Dexter
• Dr. Who
• Endgame
• GoBSRK
• Harper’s Globe
• I Made America
• The Infinity Ring
• Inside Disaster
• The Inside Experience
• Into the Far West
• The Karada
• Karen Barley
• Keep Your Head Up
• The Lost Children
• Mouth Taped Shut (Girl with the Dragon Tatoo ARG)
• Neal Stephenson’s The Mongoliad
• Nik Dee’s Marmaremara
• Pandemic 1.0
• Plant City Stories
• Post Secret
• Pottermore
• Prison Valley
• Reality Ends Here
• Rekindling Venus
• Research & Development(s)
• Riese the Series
• Robot Heart Stories
• Saligia7
• Savage County
• Socks Incorporated
• Stop Zenith
• Storm Surfers
• Test Subjects Needed
• The Time Tribe
• Tower of Fables
• Treasure Kai
• True Blood
• Valemont
• We Dream of Nothing
• Walker News Desk
• Where the Yellowstone Goes
• Why So Serious?
• Winter is Coming & The Maester’s Path & Wired article
• The Wisconsin Hustle
• Year Zero

Contact Veria to learn more about how to leverage digital and search media marketing as part of the promotion plan for your next transmedia project.