Digital Storytelling: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment - Softcover

Miller, Carolyn Handler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240809599 ISBN 13: 9780240809595

Publisher: Focal Press, 2008

Synopsis

Digital Storytelling Covers effective techniques for creating compelling narratives for a wide variety of digital media. This title offers insights into the process of content creation. It presents the work done in different forms of narrative like Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), webisodes, user-generated content, mobile entertainment and transmedia storytelling.

About this title

Review:

"Covering a massive area of media and topics, this is a fascinating read... anyone interested in the world of interactive entertainment is sure to be inspired by it."--Digital Creative Arts

Synopsis:

Equally useful for seasoned professionals and those new to the field, Carolyn Handler Miller covers effective techniques for creating compelling narratives for a wide variety of digital media. Written in a clear, non-technical style, it offers insights into the process of content creation by someone with long experience in the field. Whether you're a writer, producer, director, project manager, or designer, "Digital Storytelling" gives you all you need to develop a successful interactive project.Learn about the ground-breaking work being done in new forms of narrative like Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), webisodes, user-generated content, mobile entertainment and transmedia storytelling. Gain insights from case studies of cutting-edge projects from a variety of different media, including the Internet, video games, interactive television, virtual reality and interactive cinema. Discover new uses of digital storytelling for both entertainment and entertainment blends - projects that teach, inform, and promote. See how to combine the best of both worlds classic and twenty-first century storytelling techniques.

About this edition

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0240809599
• ISBN 13: 9780240809595
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 496