OTT & Transmedia

The place to discuss, share content and offer tips and advice to OTT - "Over the Top" streaming and Transmedia – the technique of telling a single story or story across multiple platforms including, but not limited to, games, books, events, films and television. 

PolyD Flynt
Progress update

just finished interview 10 of 29 for my zine which will be 20 copies at a time, (full colour, 410pgs, A4, perfect bound) first 20 special price on Etsy, then 2k via online orders then amazon kdp print (hardcopies only). then next week last interview of nov with graphic artist Jorsh Pena. then 10 mor...

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Geoff Hall
Around the World: The End of Self-Regulation for Streamers in the UK

Whilst I was initially happy to see this Broadcasting Code for streaming services, it does come with serious limitations:

“However, Netflix, which has a European base in the Netherlands, is not regulated by Ofcom but instead by the Dutch media r...

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Yolanda Lindeque-Strauss

That's interesting.

Geoff Hall
Asking questions about convergence culture

This article was written by my friend Richard Wallis back in 2011.

I had been talking to him about Henry Jenkins’ work on the subject and he’d forgotten he’d written this piece, during the days of the Arab Spring.

It considers many aspects of Transmedia and convergence culture and it seems even now,...

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Debbie Croysdale

@Geoff Thanks for share. Never before did we have so many tech tools, some freely accessible, to reach so many yet surprisingly the vacuum of power between the established wealthy & newer content crea...

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Geoff Hall

Debbie Croysdale yes, indeed Debbie. I agree that the power shift hasn’t happened and I’m aware of this every day. The tools may have grown, but the finance is still in a place that modern day, Transm...

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Ugo Cavallo
Writing tool 3#

Well well well... halloween is approaching, how about a new tool to practice your writing?

This exercise can be applied to any medium but is mainly useful for documentary writers.It's a somewhat difficult exercise but after doing it a couple of times, you'll notice how much progress it will make you...

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Maurice Vaughan

Great exercise, Ugo Cavallo! I always outline from the start. I'm gonna find a news story and try this exercise. Probably with a commercial or short script. Thanks.

Elaine Haygood

This works for screenwriters as if you find yourself stuck, you can go from the end back, checking how each scene came about from the previous one.

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