What You See Is All There Is can be a great formula for individual stories within the grand story universe, forcing the creators to write each book, film, song, etc. as if it were the only piece of the puzzle. Perhaps audience burnout has a deeper correlation to an individual product’s inability to be understood when separated from the rest of the narrative world.
Interesting, definitely something I'll be exploring in later posts. Nothing worse for an audience member to feel forced into engaging with new content to understand the stories they are currently engaging with!
I think, though, that the true issue lies with the core concept of creating content to build audience. New content is not a magic bullet. While it is possible to create a new story for a new medium in the transmedia world, the question is should you?
To alter a quote by Ian Malcom in the film Jurassic Park: Your (creators) were so preoccupied with whether or not they could (tell new stories and produce new content), that they didn't stop to think if they should.
This is certainly coming out at the right time for me - as I’m sure you know Frank! Will be reading eagerly!
Absolutely! I appreciate you. I feel we are all in the same boat!
What You See Is All There Is can be a great formula for individual stories within the grand story universe, forcing the creators to write each book, film, song, etc. as if it were the only piece of the puzzle. Perhaps audience burnout has a deeper correlation to an individual product’s inability to be understood when separated from the rest of the narrative world.
Interesting, definitely something I'll be exploring in later posts. Nothing worse for an audience member to feel forced into engaging with new content to understand the stories they are currently engaging with!
I think, though, that the true issue lies with the core concept of creating content to build audience. New content is not a magic bullet. While it is possible to create a new story for a new medium in the transmedia world, the question is should you?
To alter a quote by Ian Malcom in the film Jurassic Park: Your (creators) were so preoccupied with whether or not they could (tell new stories and produce new content), that they didn't stop to think if they should.