[arg_discuss] What skills do you need for working in ARGs & transmedia

[Kim Plowright]

+1

Also - logical systems thinking grafted on to more conventional  
creativity. Being able to take your idea, and break it down in to  
logical steps to complete, and figure out the tools you'll need to do  
it. Understanding that when technical builds are involved, the later  
changes come in, the harder it is to change the infrastructure to fit.  
Understanding that constraints like that are GOOD for your creativity,  
not stifling to it.

It's a bit like that Harrison Ford quote about George Lucas: 'you can  
write this s**t, but you sure as hell can't say it.' - learn to sense  
check your ideas. Eg, having kids running around looking for gunmen on  
the top of high buildings = sounds aces, but you probably can't afford  
the insurance, let alone the lawsuits.

Or, as someone put it - understand how to make the extraordinary,  
achievable; don't try to make the achievable extraordinary.

On 9 Aug 2010, at 18:18, Evan Jones wrote:


> For me Brooke - the most important reason to have technical  

> knowledge in

> transmedia is to attain what Cory Doctorow called 'The Plausible  

> Premise'

>

> http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2009/07/cory-doctorow-cheap-facts-and-plausible.html

>

> <http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2009/07/cory-doctorow-cheap-facts-and-plausible.html 

> >Essentially

> - all you have to know is that something's possible and SNAP -  

> Google will

> show you how (perhaps after many hours) or put you in touch with  

> someone who

> can do it today.  An example is with a recent project with Facebook

> OpenGraph API - I don't need to know how to program it directly, but  

> I do

> need to know the capabilities of the system to understand how it  

> works for

> my transmedia project.  And that requires some technical

> tinkering/education.

>

> ------------------

> Evan Jones

> Stitch Media

>

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>

> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Brooke Thompson  

> <brooke at giantmice.com>wrote:

>

>> Tomorrow, I am meeting with various people from the State of  

>> Georgia to

>> talk about transmedia and the skills and education required for it.  

>> It's

>> part of some education grant program that helps to make sure that  

>> GA has a

>> competitive work force.

>>

>> I am at a loss. Transmedia skills tend to be more "liberal arts" than

>> technical - or, rather, we contract out what we need when we need  

>> it which

>> changes frequently. Or is that just how I see it from where I'm  

>> standing -

>> do you producer types see it similarly? If you could say that you'd  

>> like to

>> see more people better educated in something, what would that  

>> something be?

>> Or, is there some knowledge or skill you have that you feel has been

>> instrumental or something you wish you had, what is it?

>>

>> Help me not sound like an idiot or at less like less of one ;)

>>

>> ----------------------------------

>> Brooke Thompson

>> Transmedia Storytelling

>> http://www.giantmice.com

>>

>>

>>

>>

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