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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 Larry I

Aug 22, 2020

An exceptional course! I learnt so much within the six weeks of the course. The content was informative, exciting and truly inspirational.

By Héctor E V C

Sep 26, 2021

A truly enriching, comprehensive course that feeds curiosity with each module, and makes you think about opportunities. Just learnings!

By Christian A R

Jul 21, 2020

The course is very efficient in providing a holistic perspective on the practice of storytelling through different communication media.

By Lisa R

Mar 26, 2020

This is a very comprehensive course that helped me to see the emerging technologies and think through how to use them for storytelling.

By Stephen O A

Nov 6, 2019

The best MOOC ever! I really love the blend of advice and journey of professionals with theoretical framework! It was fun! Thank you.

By Paula A V V

Jan 18, 2023

Amazing course. As an English lit major, this was truly helpful in terms of adding tech and contemporary audiences into creation.

By Willem B

Aug 13, 2021

Great experience all round. The input from industry professionals on the real world application of the knowledge was impactfull.

By Santiago C Z

Jul 5, 2020

Amazing course, provided me with great tools and multiple concepts, very useful for the process of developing transmedia stories

By sri

May 26, 2020

One of the best. Worth the money. Finally ann online course where effort was put inn in choosing the lecturers and the content.

By Dan S

Apr 10, 2017

Very helpful course! I particularly enjoyed learning about the great variety of transmedia projects from the makers themselevs.

By Inês S C

Nov 21, 2017

It helped me a lot, gave me a tone of information that is going to be essential to start writing my story. Thank you so much!

By Sofia V

Dec 31, 2020

It has been a very useful course where I learned different tools for creating stories and incorporate transmedia platforms.

By Oscar D

Jun 30, 2020

It was incredible, all the things that I learned. I really appreciate the work you guys did to create this course. Cheers!

By Georgina D

Feb 9, 2023

¡Love it!

The videos are very clear, I have learned several things that I did not know. It is also very entertaining.

By Lifted S

Oct 29, 2018

Take the course. Its full of Hollywood insiders and brilliant minds laying the blueprint for this emerging industry.

By Amy S

Dec 12, 2023

Interesting and informative. I learned a few new things and was never bored. Big thank you to all course lecturers

By Swarnalekha.v

Sep 28, 2022

This course has introduced me to a new world of storey telling. It has helped me frame my story telling skills .

By Uthra U

Sep 18, 2022

This course has helped me in undestanding that the basic stratergies that one should apply to have a great story

By Cristian e

Aug 14, 2020

innovador y estructural para la comunicacion efectiva en gran escala, crreacion y flujo de medios. Muy buen curso

By Adrián Á P

Sep 1, 2018

A really great introduction to the subject. Algo the examples helps a lot to understand the way transmedia works.

By Albert F P

Feb 13, 2017

Very interesting course and well organized and presented. It is a great opportunity to apply your creativity! ;-)

By Nakul S

Jan 11, 2024

This was fun. It teaches both the elements of storytelling and the aspects of transmedia in an interesting way.

By Ada L C D C

Feb 23, 2020

I felt that I am in a real class with many videos that I can engage with and assignments that I can work on.

By Vlad S

May 14, 2020

Well-structured course and a definite must for a whole range of individuals working in the creative fields.

By Patricia L

Jun 23, 2019

Good course for gaining new perspectives about how to tell stories differently and make them interactive.