Check out Jeff Gomez’s thoughts on his recent trip to Brazil in his new column Cosmic Streetcorner.
“The world is changing so rapidly, and it’s my job to keep up with a lot of it, especially where it impacts popular culture, children and young adults and storytelling. I’m going to use this forum, so graciously furnished by KidScreen, to try and make sense of it all in the hopes that my observations and experience can give you a new or different perspective.
I’m also actually hoping that it’ll work both ways, and that through your email and posts to this blog, I might learn a thing or two, myself. The resulting dialog can only have a positive and dynamic impact on our shows and movies, web sites and games, characters and storyworlds…”
Jeff Gomez will be participating in the Principles of Transmedia Storytelling session on Tuesday, April 13, at 3:30 p.m. as part of the Producers’ Forum, together with Nathan Mayfield, the chief creative officer and co-founder of Hoodlum. The executives will be hosting a creative boot camp, drawing on their extensive experience with transmedia projects—Gomez’s credits include James Cameron’s mega-hit Avatar, while Mayfield’s work includes Lost and Flash Forward.
from the interview Le Fabuleaux Business du Transmedia Storytelling
Globo’s Multishow: the future of music, social media, fans and transmedia. Extended interview with Jeff Gomez in Portuguese, Video in English
Jeff Gomez weighs in in February’s issue of Kidscreen magazine on Spider-man, transmedia, and the future of kids entertainment
Jeff talks about transmedia present and future in a compelling interview with Transmedia Tracker.
The Green Goblin couldn’t kill Spider-Man. Nor could the Sandman, Dr. Octopus, or even that anticlimactic black goo from Spider-Man 3. So how was Tobey Maguire’s webslinger finally squashed? Oddly enough, insiders say it was Avatar.
Read more: Vulture Exclusive: What Really Killed Spider-Man 4? Avatar!
Caitlin Burns reviews and analyzes online experiance 221B and the marketing campaign for Sherlock Holmes on The Social Robot
These days programming for the tube is a multi-platform endeavour, encompassing online, gaming, music, DVDs, toys and tours in a bid to keep budgets in the black and eyeballs glued to the small screen.
In interviews with four pioneers – Kate Pullinger, Lisa Holton, Jeff Gomez, and Peter Collingridge – in the world of transmedia storytelling, the motivations of the storytellers are as diverse as the execution of the stories themselves.
Author Jon Frater reviews James Cameron’s Avatar and Jeff Gomez weighs in in the comments.
The entertainment industries are no stranger to buzzwords. “Engagement”, “enhancement” and “immersion” have been bandied about over-zealously for years, but “transmedia” is one that’s sticking across a variety of mediums, especially publishing, and with good reason.
Canada’s innovative New Media laws are forcing traditional media outfits to reconsider how stories are told. In this article, Jeff Gomez helps make sense of it all.
Television dives into digital, musical offshoots to secure viewers – 570News
Caitlin Burns profiles some Narrative Experiments in Social Media: Valemont and Circle of 8
Check out this fantastic interview with Starlight Runner’s CEO, Jeff Gomez, at Jawbone.tv: The Transmedia Equation, Part 1: Top-Down Development with Jeff Gomez
Starlight Runner Staffers, Caitlin Burns and Steele Filipek, have an article in this week’s Multichannel News profiling two interactive online experiences Circle of 8 and Valemont and discussing how they different platforms and drive additional revenue streams while driving viewers along traditional platforms. The Next Wave of Branded Entertainment
Starlight Runner’s Editorial Lead, Caitlin Burns outlines the relationship between fans and social networks for The Social Robot
Starlight Runner’s Editorial Lead, Caitlin Burns, describes Transmedia Storytelling in a guest post for the Social Media and Internet Marketing Blog The Social Robot
SLR president & CEO Jeff Gomez and SLR editorial lead Caitlin Burns discuss Pirates of The Caribbean, Halo, and other high-profile transmedia projects. Read part one here and part two here.
NEW-GEN interviews Jeff Gomez, President and Chief Executive Officer of Starlight Runner Entertainment. Jeff explains the term transmedia, how transmedia storytelling is powerful in building franchises, and why NEW-GEN sought his expertise.
There has been quite a bit of talk in recent years around the concept of transmedia storytelling. Few of these narratives have actually been implemented, but a select number of companies have chosen to satisfy consumer affinities, put great ideas on a pedestal, and think of creative ways to proliferate those ideas through carefully chosen channels.
Read the article on Welcome To Now
In a lengthy interview published yesterday, The Narrative Design Exploratorium talks to Starlight Runner’s CEO about his work and thoughts on the craft of interactive narrative design for transmedia experiences.
The new television show “Flash Forward” is cited as an example of how transmedia storytelling can work.
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The Future of Story is Transmedia Narrative
Starlight Runner Entertainment is featured in the May 18, 2009 issue of BUSINESSWEEK, in an article by noted journalist Ron Grover. Read it here.
Starlight Runner CEO Jeff Gomez was featured on FORBES CMO in a profile you can read here.
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