These are the first student transmedia projects that I have posted this year, but first a bit of background. I have been teaching a course called ‘Creating Experiences’ to small groups of AFTRS Foundation students taking them through some of the skills of planning a transmedia project. In the second week of the course students in groups of between 2 and 4 students work up a pitch for a transmedia project along with proof of concept for how it’s all going to fit together. So far the standard has been excellent and here’s a small sample of the fruits of young creative minds.
Social Inetiquettes
Alexander Lee, Dru O’Meara, Jackie Miller
Logline:
Conducting social experiments to test people’s etiquettes.
Social Inetiquettes, is a webseries and interactive web community that centres on everyday social situations. Each episode focuses on a social inetiquette, and opens with a question along the lines of ‘what would you do?’ to audiences. The crew then films the social experiment for audience to view results. The interaction from audiences comes from comments, video responses, discussions on discussion boards and submitting ideas for future webisode themes. This is the first episode of the web series that was put together for proof of concept purposes and used as part of the project pitch.
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Have You Seen Mary-Jane?
Amelia Ghirardello, Zoe Lemon, Laura Nagy
Logline: One man’s journey to find the alluring woman who disappeared
during a conversation on Chatroulette.
Guido has just had a life-changing experience on Chatroulette with a random girl called Mary-Jane who he chatted with for hours before she disapeared into cyberspace. Now he needs your help to find Mary-Jane with the help of clues and an online scavenger hunt. Users report discoveries back to Guido but they will also be encouraged to share their own experiences of love lost in a open forum where Gildo offers advice through his video blog. As the clues on Mary-Jane all start to come together, Guido advertises a time and date for users to log onto his live streaming channel, where Mary-Jane appears live on webcam revealing she too has been looking for Guido. With the lovers reunited they what to share the opportunity to find love with the people that helped them. They introduce users to Loveroulette, a new dating website that follows the format of Chatroulette but allows users to register minimal profile information before pairing them with suitable strangers via webcam. It’s a fun and relaxed form of online dating – so nobody will ever lose their online love again.
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