How fitting for a transmedia conference to come to Edmonton within a week of this blog's birth. Today through Sunday, I'll be spending most of my days at NAIT for StoryWorld Quest, where I'll be learning loads about transmedia, getting inspired, and networking with "content creators and technologists creating the future of new media."
Something tells me this bodes well for my upcoming creative endeavours.
The conference hosts a fairly diverse selection of workshops and panels covering pretty much all media platforms and exploring the bridges between. There are a handful that I'm especially pumped for, but my conference experience tells me that the sessions that don't jump out on paper will turn out to be the best in practice. Here are some gems:
- Initiating Transmedia Storytelling In Your Organization is going to be particularly germane to my work with the Edmonton Heritage Council. What does a non-profit heritage organization want with transmedia, you ask? Well, our Edmonton City as Museum Project is dedicated to finding new ways of telling Edmonton's story, and we're looking to everything from film and music to augmented reality to give local history some kick.
- It Starts with the Story will be a great primer for somebody who's just starting with transmedia. Listening to others talk about their approach to story in the rapidly merging media world will hopefully bring together some of the ideas floating around in my head.
- EDMONTONVILLE – The Art and Business of Horror: Edmonton is gaining steam as a horror aficionado's playground. I've seen much of the film output, but it'll be great to see what some of Edmonton's best and brightest in horror are doing to give Edmonton some cred.
- The Importance of Narrative & Story in the Creation of Dragon Age because videogames exist on their own as participatory narrative experiences, and few do it as well as BioWare.
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