Assignment 2: Transmedia Story Proposal

Hi Everyone,

Here are the details for assignment 2.

In this assignment, you will write a proposal for your transmedia storytelling plan which summarizes your strategy for composing a series of transmedia stories. You should answer the following questions in your proposal:

• What type of stories are you going to tell?
• In which genre will you be writing?
• Why are you choosing these particular types of story to compose?
• What is the purpose of your stories?
• Who are the intended audiences for your stories?
• What is the method of focalisation you will employ?
• How will your story be temporally arranged?
• How will this story be shaped by media through each subsequent pass? In other words, what types of media will you add to each revision, and how will these media redefine the rhetorical effects[1] of your stories? You won’t have enough room to address this in detail, but you may want to point out just a few anticipated effects.
• Will your method of focalisation or temporal arrangement change after each pass?
• What types of stories will you be producing for Pass 2 through Pass 4? Will you be continuing the same story throughout, or devising new stories for each pass? Each approach has its benefits and disadvantages, so consider your strategy carefully.
• What do you anticipate the challenges will be in this project? How are you planning to deal with them?

Your proposal grade will count as one of the six short assignments for this course. Your proposal should be in the neighborhood of 350 to 500 words in length, and should be both posted to your student blog and uploaded using the WebCT Submit Assignment mechanism.

Proposal Grading Rubric (Out of Ten Points):

__ / 5 Completeness (includes all required elements and meets length requirements)
__ / 3 Quality of Proposal (engaging, thoughtful, and creative)
__ / 2 Mechanics and Grammar (well-written with no spelling errors; syntactically correct)

[1] See the “Other Useful Sites” section of our course blog for a link to Paul Newall’s introductory essay on rhetoric.

Here is a copy of the full Transmedia Story Assignment (PDF). You’ll likely want to reference this document as you prepare your proposal (and this assignment description is also included in that PDF file).

As always, let me know if you have any questions! Assignment 2 is due to your personal blog and to be uploaded to WebCT on 5/27 by 11:55PM.