Post Formats 13 Mar 2014 Spies Like Me: My Response to IARPA’S RFI UAREHERE Last week I received an unusual email from IARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, a research agency under the… Carrie 1 Comment
Post Formats 03 Nov 2013 Are Web Series TV online? At a recent conference in LA,* a producer on a panel to an audience of convergent content creators boldly declared that web series should just be called series, dropping the… Carrie
Post Formats 10 Sep 2013 Learning From Orson Understanding “Audiences” in Transmedia & Web Series A friend of mine, Robert Mills (Big Comfy Couch, Ruffus the Dog) recently called attention to this gem of a video with Orson Welles explaining the function of audiences and how to tame… Carrie
Post Formats 04 Jul 2013 Case Study: 10 Genius Tactics from The LBD Campaign The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (LBD) web series astounded many people, not only with its breakout mainstream success, but its record-breaking Kickstarter campaign to become at one point the fourth top successful… Carrie
Post Formats 01 Jan 2013 Epic Year in Review Wow…2012 was pretty epic. Particularly the last half. Here is my highlight reel: 1. First I started off the year… Carrie
Post Formats 26 Dec 2012 Storyworlds: A False Framework The Storyworld framework [1] serves many useful purposes when thinking about transmedia and strategizing for many transmedia properties. For one, it provides a useful catchall that marries story + technology… Carrie
Post Formats 26 Dec 2012 Smash Worlds This is a story about finding lost. Allow me to begin with a disruption, an interruption of form, to throw you off your horse, throw you down, and hopefully, by… Carrie
Post Formats 21 Dec 2012 Storyworlds: A Need for A New Model The challenge for those utilizing the Storyworld Hollywood franchise model (particularly those who are independent creatives) is then to aspire to an insurmountable and unattainable pinnacle of immersion and pervasion… Carrie
Post Formats 06 Dec 2012 Is Rape Never Funny? As a storyteller who often sifts through the blender grind of my existence: the pulpy mash and grit of my childhood, history and culture, I am of the firm belief… Carrie
Post Formats 02 May 2012 10 Things I Learned From Story Hack Last week I met and teamed up with three virtual strangers to create a transmedia spectacle to live three platforms… Carrie