Digital storytelling a creator's guide to interactive entertainment

Equally useful for seasoned professionals and those new to the field, Carolyn Handler Miller covers effective techniques for creating compelling narratives for a wide variety of digital media. Written in a clear, non-technical style, it offers insights into the process of content creation by someone...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Carolyn Handler
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston Focal Press/Elsevier 2008
Edition:2nd ed
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Equally useful for seasoned professionals and those new to the field, Carolyn Handler Miller covers effective techniques for creating compelling narratives for a wide variety of digital media. Written in a clear, non-technical style, it offers insights into the process of content creation by someone with long experience in the field. Whether you're a writer, producer, director, project manager, or designer, 'Digital Storytelling' gives you all you need to develop a successful interactive project. *Learn about the ground-breaking work being done in new forms of narrative like Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), webisodes, user-generated content, mobile entertainment and transmedia storytelling *Gain insights from case studies of cutting-edge projects from a variety of different media, including the Internet, video games, interactive television, virtual reality and interactive cinema *Discover new uses of digital storytelling for both entertainment and entertainment blends -- projects that teach, inform, and promote *See how to combine the best of both worlds - classic and twenty-first century storytelling techniques
"Understand the 'how' and 'why' of interactive storytelling to develop powerful characters, structures, and storylines specifically for digital entertainment. This book covers techniques for creating compelling narratives for a variety of digital media."--Jacket
Physical Description:xvi, 479 pages illustrations
ISBN:0240809599
9780240809595
9780080878263