Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment

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Taylor & Francis, 2008 - Art - 479 pages
Equally useful for seasoned professionals and those new to the field, Carolyn Handler Miller covers effective techniques for creating compelling narratives for a wide variety of digital media. Written in a clear, non-technical style, it offers insights into the process of content creation by someone with long experience in the field.

Whether you're a writer, producer, director, project manager, or designer, 'Digital Storytelling' gives you all you need to develop a successful interactive project.
 

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
New Technologies New Creative Opportunities
Creating StoryRich Projects
Harnessing Digital Storytelling for Pragmatic Goals
Media and Models Underthe Hood
Career Considerations
Conclusion
Glossary
Additional Readings
Subject Index
Project Index
Copyright

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Carolyn Handler Miller is one of the pioneering writers in the field of non-linear entertainment, and as an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter, brings a unique perspective to the craft of digital storytelling. She has worked as a writer or writer-content designer on over forty new media projects, including the landmark Carmen Sandiego series and the interactive version of the Pixar-Disney film, Toy Story, one of the most popular CD-ROMs ever released. Her work as a digital storyteller includes entertainment, educational, informational and training projects made for video games, the Web, interactive TV, smart toys, and transmedia projects. She is also an international speaker and teacher on the subject of digital storytelling, having given workshops and talks in Johannesburg, Rome and Paris, as well as teaching interactive narrative and video game development for the University of New Mexico.

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