Lance Weiler on Story Architecture

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Slides:

Another PTTP presentation – forgive us tapping the same resource repeatedly, but it was chock full of goodness, and I would have blogged it three weeks ago if this blog had been launched then.

Most of you who are already interested in these things will know Lance Weiler as a key proponent of transmedia storytelling.  He was director of the Blair-Witchy The Last Broadcast (1998) and Head Trauma (2006), and is now organiser of the touring conference DIY Days (like a North American PTTP) and the brains behind online resource The Workbook Project.

This excellent 30 minute presentation covers Lance’s ideas about “story architecture” – how to structure and develop transmedia interactive stories.

I wish I could find a link to his slides, but it doesn’t seem like he publishes them.  Although they’re inserted into the video here, their detail is lost.
UPDATE: Found them via a tweet from @sarn – have embedded player above so you can read them while listening to the video.

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Link to video page on Babelgum.com
Link to slideshow page on Slideshare.net

Christy Dena: Transmedia Lessons

This is a video of Christy Dena presenting at the excellent Power To The Pixel forum here in London last month.

Below it are her slides from the presentation which you can play alongside the video of her talking – for a genuine crossmedia reconstruction

Her talk was about what she’s learned studying around 150 ARG’s and transmedia stories over the last 10 years, with guidance for those of us thinking about how to structure interactive entertainment.