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About the Course

Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in a cohesive story experience across multiple traditional and digital delivery platforms - for entertainment, advertising and marketing, or social change. Have you ever read a book, seen a movie, watched a television show, or played a game that centred around different aspects of a larger story or universe? You may be familiar with popular examples of such universes like Star Wars, Marvel, and The Walking Dead (to name a few). How do the professionals develop such expansive narratives? How do they ensure that each element stays true to the original story? How do they innovatively use different technologies to share the stories, grow audiences and create an active and involved community of fans? More and more, we are also engaging with elements or franchises of larger and more complex stories across a much more diverse range of platforms like interactive web experiences, social media communities, mobile devices, theme parks, and even augmented and virtual reality. A major challenge that current and future storytellers face is being able to engage different audiences in a story that is seamlessly told across all of these different platforms. WHAT WILL I LEARN? This course will help you to design a strategy for developing and telling your own transmedia story. You will learn about what it takes to: • Shape your ideas into compelling and well structured narratives and complex story worlds • Identify, understand, and engage different audiences in your stories • Create cohesive user experiences across different platforms • Evaluate existing and emerging technologies to share your story with the world, and help your audience participate in the larger storyworld you create The course provides you with a unique, authentic, and industry relevant learning opportunity. You will have access to current theory, industry examples and advice and undertake learning activities that will equip you with the tools you need to start developing your own ideas. WHO WILL MY INSTRUCTORS BE? You will learn effective transmedia design strategies from leading UNSW Australia Art & Design academics. You will also examine case studies that demonstrate how amazing ideas, technology and audience contributions can be brought together to create dynamic storyworlds. You'll see examples of major, successful transmedia storytelling projects involving movies, digital entertainment, gaming, virtual reality and more. In collaboration with our industry partner X Media Lab, the course will give you inside access to the personal stories, insight and advice of the following innovative transmedia storytelling professionals from Hollywood USA, Canada and Australia. • Susan Bonds, 42 Entertainment, Los Angeles, USA • Flint Dille, Screenwriter, Game Designer and Novelist, Los Angeles, USA • Cindi Drennan, Illuminart, Australia • Tom Ellard, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia • Catherine Fargher, Dr Egg Digital, Sydney, Australia • Hal Hefner, 3AM Creative, USA • Brian Seth Hurst, StoryTech, Los Angeles, USA • Henry Jenkins, School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA • Mikey Leung, Digital Storytellers, Sydney, Australia • Alex Lieu, 42 Entertainment, Los Angeles, USA • Geoffrey Long, Annenberg Innovation Lab, University of Southern California, USA • John McGhee, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia • Joseph Narai, Transmedia Entertainment, Sydney, Australia • Jeff Nicholas, The Uprising Creative, Los Angeles, USA • Sergio Paez, Graphic Artist working in animation, TV, video games, and film. Co Founder, StoryboardArt, California, USA • Steve Peters, No Mimes Media, Los Angeles, USA • Stuart Samuels, Stuart Samuels Productions, Toronto, Canada • Charles Santoso, Concept Artist, Sydney, Australia • Seth Shapiro, New Amsterdam Media, Los Angeles, USA • Scott Snibbe, Eyegroove, San Francisco, USA • Tracey Taylor, The Pulse, Sydney, Australia • Robert Tercek, Public Speaker, Digital Media Strategist, and Executive Leader for Creative Ventures and Business Innovation, • University of Southern California, USA • Kevin Williams, Founder & Director of KWP Ltd and DNA Association, UK • Brent Young, Super 78, Los Angeles, USA • Maya Zuckerman, Transmedia SF, San Francisco, USA COURSE CONTENT DEVELOPMENT Karin Watson, Iman Irannejad, and Dr. Simon McIntyre....

Top reviews

NT

Aug 15, 2021

Being someone who loves movies, this course has provided me deep knowledge about storytelling . the lectures were very understandable for a beginner. Hope to use this knowledge in future. :)

MP

May 23, 2021

I definitely recommend this course to all those who want to improve their creativity, their storytelling skills and learn to use different technologies to engage all types of audiences.

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By Sourabh K P

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Feb 8, 2024

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By Nisha P

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Nov 2, 2022

I would rate this course a 3.5/5. The biggest advantage of this course is the interviews with transmedia professionals who offer real examples of how to implement transmedia storytelling in various scenarios and also offer industry-relevant tips and strategies that can help us. This is supremely helpful from a practical perspective.

However, at the same time, it feels like many of the interviews were done sometime in the past decade, since some of the things the people talk of (such as advancements in technology), are already underway or already obsolete. What I would have liked from this course (and which would have been better), was more staff involvement. Currently, just one staff member pops in occasionally to review assignments that are held up in review stage because of lack of students. But having experts guide us more closely by offering consistent assignment feedback would have helped.

Overall though, this course does help you look at content creation and storytelling from a new perspective. I would say people who are already in the creative industry or with some personal experience in writing, designing and storytelling, can get much more out of the material here, than someone with zero experience in writing or storytelling. It was an enjoyable course, that can easily be completed in a week, if you already have a story in place. Good luck with your course :)

By R E

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Jul 31, 2020

I liked the course, in the sense that they provided guidance and tips to generate and communicate that with the transmedia audience. But there are only tips and nothing else. They don't teach any technicalities and it gets more and more irritating and frustrating. They just keep talking about different plans and tips and each and every person gives some lecture about something and sometimes two of them give the same message. Its also very long and takes up a lot of time. So my tip is that if you are not interested in transmedia course and just want to try it for fun, don't do it.

By Ximena M

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Oct 6, 2017

It doesn't have a Scaffolding learning. So you feel that you know nothing and your face with tons of content, that you don't really understand. It's overwhelming. I feel it needs to star nice and easy, and start adding more after the second week.

By Deleted A

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Jul 15, 2020

Doesn't suit my needs...more media specific

By Sofia S V

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Oct 17, 2022

good content and good homeworks

By paula a

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May 2, 2022

I feel this course gives you a lot of tools but not many insights on how to apply these tools. It's as if you wanted to build a house and each lesson is about "how important a brick is for a house, you can't build a house without it", but it doesn't teach you how to build a wall.

By Leanette T

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Dec 6, 2022

Not really what I'd expected, as a part visual storyteller. This course engages more of the scientific paradoxes engaged with visual storytelling. Which is something I'm not involved with, doing animation and home studio voiceover.