The Story Lab, a studio I chose in my final year doing this course. The prompt that we were given for this class is ‘what is story now?’. It is all about learning that storytelling isn’t what it used to be. When we think about the stories that we used to read we think about the ones that have a beginning, a middle and an end. However, now what if all of that has changed? What if we read stories in a different way, through different platforms? This is about multi platform storytelling. What makes a story good, or how does it become successful? Is transmedia the way of the storytelling future? We are told that this class is a way for us to try out different platforms of storytelling, and explore how it works or doesn’t, and see what we can come up with, through both digital and non-digital platforms.

The key quote for this semester: “All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave” Mike Carey.

Aims of the studio:

-Learn methods of storytelling through transmedia narrative
-There will be individual work and group work.
-Research the changing nature of storytelling, by analysing narratives, and reflect of the process of creating.