Original Dramatic Content on Audible.com
The WGA‘s recent seminar on e-publishing revealed how this storytelling arena has just exploded in a few short years — and it’s indeed become a legit pool of intellectual property for Hollywood to draw from.
Google Glass/Augmented Reality Storytelling
What is the future of storytelling and screenwriting when media content is developed using Google Glass, and also distributed via Google Glass? Some first explorations via the Glass Creative Collective, as glasses go out to the top film schools in the country. Whether Google Glass emerges as the actual technology, or whether it quickly becomes irrelevant and a dead-end, this clearly suggests a new chapter in media convergence. To be continued…
Videogame Dialog Scripts
As this is primarily an archival site for the decade+ of alt.screenwriters columns published in the WGA trade magazine Written By, I don’t get around to posting on this much (since I teach undergraduate screenwriting full-time, have two book blogs to maintain, and still work as a professional screenwriter, time permitting) — but I’ll direct the reader to a new post about videogame dialog scripts on the End to End Game Development book blog.
A reminder here that my earlier book, Story and Simulations for Serious Games, also discusses videogame scriptwriting. Today’s professional screenwriter should be able to move between film, TV and interactive media — and knowing how to format narrative for any of these platforms is a basic piece of knowledge to have.
Screenwriting discussed on MASTERING CELTX blog
Mastering Celtx has its own blog, and recent posts have included discussions of screenwriting for documentaries and videogames.
More posts on the nuts and bolts of screenwriting (as they relate to Celtx) are scheduled. For scriptwriters working on the “bleeding edge” of media convergence, this is definitely worth investigating.
MASTERING CELTX Officially Released
The day of Mastering Celtx‘s official release has arrived. Find the book on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble, or just about any other online book vendor you prefer. You can walk into a brick-and-mortar Barnes & Noble or Borders and also order the book for pickup.
Can’t get enough of Mastering Celtx? Check out the book’s blog and Twitter feed. Love to hear what you think.
MASTERING CELTX Twitter feed
My new book Mastering Celtx will soon be published, and in the meantime, you can follow the Mastering Celtx Twitter feed — for the latest book news and Celtx news.
MASTERING CELTX Available for Pre-Order
My new book Mastering Celtx is being published by Cengage Learning, and can now be pre-ordered at any of your favorite booksellers (brick-and-mortar, and online).
alt.screenwriters has always been about exploring new developments in screenwriting.
Celtx describes itself as an all-in-one media pre-production tool. For years, novice and professional screenwriters have had to spend a good chunk of change for either Final Draft or Movie Magic Screenwriter in order to compose and distribute professional looking screenplays. Celtx is open-source and free.
New Developments
Stay tuned in this space … some interesting news coming as we head into Summer 2011…
Interactive Films
In the mid- and late-’90s, a variety of companies experimented with interactive filmmaking — from in-the-theater type experiences with audience remote controls, to CD-ROMs and DVDs. None of these experiments yielded mainstream success, and interactive films largely retreated from the media landscape in the past decade.
Interestingly, the iPad may trigger a new wave of experimentation with interactive filmmaking, and the device might offer just the right kind of form factor for this kind of storytelling. Check out the “making-of” video for “Touching Stories”, a collection of 4 short interactive films made by Tool of North America, a production company specializing in creating branded video content.
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