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Relationships between Movies and DVD extras

I’ve been looking at the extras provided on DVDs for a while. They are good examples of how a storyworld is elaborated in another text. A couple I’d like to mention,for their unique and intriguing elaborations are:

Punch Drunk Love,directed by Paul Thomas Anderson,2002

The Incredibles,directed by Brad Bird,2004

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Another Model continues

A model that I look at closely for my developing list of design elements for cross-media stories is that of ARGs (alternate reality games). There are two books on the subject and recently,an interview with ‘puppet-masters’Elan Lee and Sean Stewart at Cultural Gutter.

Gosney,J. (2005) Beyond Reality:a Guide to Alternate [...]

Modeling Cross-media

I’m looking at a few different models to use for inspiration in the creation of my cross-media model. One of them is military systems. The Future Combat System is a “joint (across all the military services) networked (connected via advanced communications) system of systems (one large system made up of 18 individual systems,the [...]