Focusing on the narrative structure of cross-platform entertainment, this document presents our current progress and thinking on the development of LowLifes (http://www.lowlifes.tv).
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Transmedia Story Development
1.
2. About this presentation
• Synopsis & Concept
• Objectives & Process
• Writer vs Producer Workflow
• Creating suspense across platforms
• More opportunities?
• Narrative calls-to-action &
“double impact”
• Immediate next steps…
3. LowlifeS’ synopsis
• Larry Hayes is San Francisco
homicide detective with a drug
addiction.
• He has a dead informant, an ex-
wife fighting for custody of
their daughter and a private eye
hired to dig the dirt on him.
4. High Concept
One story, three
perspectives.
Told over three
platforms: novella,
web series, blog.
dETECTIVE
LARRY HAYES EX-WiFE
(JEN HAYES)
PRIVATE EYE
(LAUREN ORTEGA)
5. objectives
• Possible to consume each media
independently of any other
• Enhanced satisfaction with each
additional media consumption
• Micro-budget
• Freemium distribution model
• Creative Commons licensing to allow
audience collaboration
• Simple, commercial, transmedia story
(not experimental)
6. Aim: Whole is greater than sum of parts
Movie Game Book Media Franchise
Whole is less than the sum of the parts:
dissatisfying conclusion to consuming all media
Movie Game Book Transmedia
Whole is more satisfying than the sum of the parts:
euphoria of collecting and connecting the pieces
16. Test against Henry Jenkin’s
7-core concepts (my rephrasing)
• Spread vs drill
(spreadability vs drillability)
• Continuity vs parallel worlds
(Continuity vs multiplicity)
• Physical spaces & merchandise
(immersion vs extractability)
• Worldbuilding
• Episodic
(seriality)
• Point of view
(subjectivity)
• Performance
18. Immediate next steps
• Website & graphics make-over
• Some further web experiments
• Source music (www.audiodraft.com)
• Search for business relationships
19. To be continued…
Robert Pratten
twitter.com/zenfilms
www.zenfilms.com
www.lowlifes.tv