Archive for April, 2007

Wow! DIY Cinema, theatre, gaming, mobile, mashups, comics, blog, podcasts…

ARG Audiences Creative Cross-Media Design Digital Cinema Film Industry Marketing Music Narrative PerformancePublished April 30, 2007 at 10:54 pm 5 Comments

 

 
Lance Weiler, the director of the film The Last Broadcast (which has been described as the “original Blair Witch Project”) released another film last september: Head Trauma. What is interesting about the project is the STACK OF GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE with the film!! Firstly, he or the film has a presence on many
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2007 sagasnet projects

Creative Cross-Media Courses Event Industry Marketing Narrative WritingPublished April 30, 2007 at 9:00 pm No Comments

The 2007 Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar run by sagasnet is currently in play.
During this Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar pre-selected interactive narrative projects in development (no limitation on media, genre or target audience) will be provided in parallel with high-profile face-to-face consulting sessions (on financing, project management, marketing, story structure, game play…). Consultants will be
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Closure on the web

Academia Audiences InternetPublished April 30, 2007 at 1:52 pm No Comments

The notion of closure in interactive narratives has been explored by, among others, hypertext-response theorist Jane Yellowless Douglas. In her paper, “How Do I Stop this Thing?”: Closure and Indeterminacy in Interactive Narratives, Douglas analyses the assumptions we make as readers and how we long for closure, even if the text doesn’t supply it:
Even in
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