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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

MP

May 24, 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.

NT

Apr 27, 2020

Great Course. Love the inputs from all the professionals and the various tools and methods provided to the students to complete the modules. Very interesting and enriching. Thank you

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By Franco M

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Sep 21, 2024

Muy buen curso, realmente se aprende así ya se tenga conocimientos previos, vale la pena dedicarle el tiempo a estudiarlo.

By Jade R

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Aug 11, 2021

Great course. A little less focus on creation techniques than I thought but still complete and interesting.

By Jyothsna

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Jun 4, 2020

Excellent course with fresh insights and lots of space for iterations in our own storytelling.

By Luis M B

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Aug 8, 2022

Es un buen curso si tu interés está en contar mejores historias a través del storytelling.

By Mohd I B M Y

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Aug 16, 2021

This course is most useful and the arrangement of the chapter is well done structured.

By Chiara S

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Mar 27, 2017

The additional links and research material were really interesting and insightful.

By Shreya G

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Jun 15, 2020

Great course, except for the last teacher who in my opinion did not teach well.

By Grace K

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Mar 31, 2021

Got new ideas and knowledge from the course, it is worth to take this course,

By Rain R

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Aug 9, 2021

I truly enjoyed having access to collective wisdom f industry professionalsy

By Jason L

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May 26, 2019

I learned a great deal over the course. The bits of gold were invaluable.

By Laura G

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Sep 21, 2023

I want something more related with marketing and social impact

By Gerald G

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Dec 8, 2020

It was a really good course with tons of awesome information.

By Margherita B

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Feb 20, 2021

Great course, packed with excellent content and inspiration

By Andrey K

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Feb 12, 2018

A nice intro course with some useful industry tips.

By TMU陳彦妘

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Feb 23, 2025

課程面向多元 也會一步步引導學生思考 但互評機制可能有些人會亂給分 導致自己的作業被退回重交

By María I A R

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Sep 20, 2024

It was really good and I´ve learned so much.

By Rafa H N

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Mar 5, 2019

Great course. Practical and result oriented.

By Ananyanarayan D

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Oct 12, 2022

Great instructors, great course.

By Sebastián M T

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Nov 4, 2024

Some videos were tedious.

By Karan

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May 5, 2020

Very Insightful and Fresh

By Iris Y C B

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Apr 20, 2020

Worth it, I learn a lot.

By S.C D

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Sep 23, 2020

Really inspiring class.

By Brinda N

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Jan 8, 2024

Very interesting.

By luz e

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Jan 30, 2021

Excelente

By Sourabh K P

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Feb 8, 2024

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