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The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Nine

This week we’ve been working on our major project, The Barlow Enquiry. At this stage in the project, it’s really coming down to smashing out the narrative – thinking of all the plot holes and making sure none arise, and I’ve got to say, it’s a lot harder than we originally thought. So I guess…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Eight

This week was a little all over the place in regards to The Story Lab. Our first class I unfortunately missed thanks to Metro (5 hour train trip and missing class is not my idea of fun), and our second class for the week involved listening and presenting project pitches. In regards to the pitches,…

The Story Lab – Project Brief 3

Our Project Brief for the assessment task three of The Story Lab 2016 surrounds the concept of creating a narrative that unfolds over multiple media platforms, allowing the audience to participate in a range of interactive manners. Our project, “The Barlow Enquiry“, surrounds the story of a modern-day young man who finds himself uncovering his family heritage…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Seven

Our guest speaker this week was Ben Mckenzie from Pop up Playground, an organisation that designs live games, immersive play and digitally supported street sports. Throughout Ben’s seminar, one question that continually bounced around my mind was the issue surrounding how a creator goes about getting audiences attention, then, how they are able to keep that…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Six

This weeks readings and classes surrounded web series. With streaming companies like Netflix and Stan on the rise, it’s a no-brainer that web series are weaving their own path in mainstream media. But, unlike the other 1.89 million (and counting) Australians that have access to thousands of TV shows and Movies through the program, I…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Five

This week started with our two hour screening of clips surrounding Marvel’s Agent Carter, beginning from her introduction in Captain America: The First Avenger, to the Marvel one-shot, before finally reaching the pilot episode for the Agent Carter series. Had I seen these before? Of course! I have to admit, when I first saw Captain…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Four

Through this weeks classes we tackled a range of activities and ideas. Having thoroughly moved into the world of interactive and transmedia storytelling, unsurprisingly, the majority of our work surrounded stories told across multiple media platforms. Our first seminar for week four involved choosing “games” to play online. These games were interactive; the outcome of…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Three

This weeks blog post is going to situate around our short story submissions and Dan’s reflection questions posted on the Story Lab Blog. In class we were given random short stories written by fellow classmates and told to provide constructive feedback via blog posts. What was it like knowing your work was being read/critiqued by…

Project Brief 1: “Story Time” – Reflection

The writing of my short story, “Numbers” was an experience in which I found planning to be extremely difficult. As a novel writer and reader, I found containing my story so that the reader would feel satisfied within it’s telling a trying affair. In it’s creation I focused on the “now” of the story –…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Two

This week we touched on a range of subjects including Narrative and Database in Lev Manovich’s “The Database” (2001), as well as the concept of Agency as discussed in Janet Murray’s “Hamlet on the Holodeck” (1997). While I will openly admit that Manovich’s reading was a lot to digest, his ideas focused around one of…