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Worldbuilding
Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
By Peter von Stackelberg
Presented at
Data Ecologies 2014
Linz, Austria
May 2014
We must tell stories
about the future
to shape the future
Emotion is a key
element in human
information processing
We respond
to emotion
Data is
not enough!
A SQUAT grey building of only
thirty-four stories. Over the main
entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON
HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE,
and, in a shield, the World State's motto,
COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
The enormous room on the ground
floor faced towards the north. Cold for all
the summer beyond the panes, for all the
tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh
thin light glared through the windows,
hungrily seeking some draped lay figure,
some pallid shape of academic goose-
flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel
and bleakly shining porcelain of a
laboratory. Wintriness responded to
wintriness. The overalls of the workers
were white, their hands gloved with a
pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light
was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the
yellow barrels of the microscopes did it
borrow a certain rich and living
substance, lying along the polished tubes
like butter, streak after luscious streak in
long recession down the work tables.
- Brave New World, Aldus Huxley
Data
Experience
Information WisdomKnowledge
Universal Individual
Global
Local
Personal
Context
Global
Local
Personal
We need to move
from data to wisdom
Transmedia
storytelling is…
…telling one or
more related
stories across
two or more
types of media
The use of transmedia
storytelling is growing
Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
Careful design is
absolutely critical for
effective transmedia stories
Worldbuilding is the process
of creating a “universe” within
which all your stories exist
J.R.R. Tolkien was a
master worldbuilder
Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
Story development often
begins with characters and
expands outward from there
Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
Storyworld development
begins with the world
and multiple stories
emerge from it
Worldbuilding involves three key
design tasks:
• Narrative design
• Audience engagement design
• User interaction design
Timelines
are an
effective
tool for
organizing
storyworlds
Narrative Design
Narrative Design
• Select genre
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
• Identify designing principle
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
• Identify designing principle
• Identify central conflict
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
• Identify designing principle
• Identify central conflict
• Set storyworld timeframes
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
• Identify designing principle
• Identify central conflict
• Set storyworld timeframes
• Create events
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
• Identify designing principle
• Identify central conflict
• Set storyworld timeframes
• Create events
• Create characters
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
• Identify designing principle
• Identify central conflict
• Set storyworld timeframes
• Create events
• Create characters
• Create significant objects
Narrative Design
• Select genre
• Identify premise
• Identify controlling idea
• Identify designing principle
• Identify central conflict
• Set storyworld timeframes
• Create events
• Create characters
• Create significant objects
• Create settings
Settings in a storyworld
are defined by:
•Topos
Settings in a storyworld
are defined by:
•Topos
•Demos
Settings in a storyworld
are defined by:
•Topos
•Demos
•Chronos
Layout the
elements on
the timeline
for your
storyworld
Many storyworlds are
static and frozen in time…
…when they should be
alive and dynamic
“How do we get there from here?”
“How did we get here from there?”
Stories
emerge
from the
storyworld
Audience Engagement Design
 Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a
storyworld’s existents, events, and settings.
Audience Engagement Design
• Identify desired audience action
 Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a
storyworld’s existents, events, and settings.
Audience Engagement Design
• Identify desired audience action
• Identify audience gratifications
 Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a
storyworld’s existents, events, and settings.
Audience Engagement Design
• Identify desired audience action
• Identify audience gratifications
• Identify message(s)
 Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a
storyworld’s existents, events, and settings.
Audience Engagement Design
• Identify desired audience action
• Identify audience gratifications
• Identify message(s)
• Select message function/effect
Acquire Trigger Alter Reinforce
Cognitive
(What do you want
them to know?)
Affective
(What do you want
them to feel?)
Physiological
(What physical
reaction do you want
them to have?)
Belief
(What do you want
them to believe?)
Attitude
(What attitude do
you want them to
display?)
Behavior
(How to you want
them to behave?)
Message Function/Effect Matrix
 Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a
storyworld’s existents, events, and settings.
Audience Engagement Design
• Identify desired audience action
• Identify audience gratifications
• Create message(s)
• Select message function/effect
• Determine audience agency
User agency is the
degree of control
a user has over
the storyworld
User Interaction Design
Mobile devices are
well-suited for
transmedia stories
User Interaction Design
1. Identify type(s) of participation
User Interaction Design
1. Identify type(s) of participation
2. Determine media platforms
User Interaction Design
1. Identify type(s) of participation
2. Determine media platforms
3. Determine storyworld entry points
User Interaction Design
1. Identify type(s) of participation
2. Determine media platforms
3. Determine storyworld entry points
4. Determine inter-story transfer points
User Interaction Design
1. Identify type(s) of participation
2. Determine media platforms
3. Determine storyworld entry points
4. Determine inter-story transfer points
User Interaction Design
1. Identify type(s) of participation
2. Determine media platforms
3. Determine storyworld entry points
4. Determine inter-story transfer points
5. Identify the calls-to-action
So where do we go with this?
Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future
Over his lifetime Miguel Santiago
had watched the Gulf eat away his
home. He was a BOI – born on the
Island – as were his parents and
grandparents. They were gone
now…entombed in the family’s
mausoleum which lay under the
water that had taken everything from
him.
Water filled his boots as Miguel
walked through the empty streets.
When he was a child the Gulf was 20
miles from downtown, a 30 minute
car ride along I-45 South when traffic
was good, an eternity when traffic
was bad – as it usually was. Now the
Gulf covered Louisiana Street and
lapped at the foot of One Shell Plaza.
Miguel walked in silence,
determined to get as far as he could.
He was determined to go home to
Galveston.
The story is the most
important element
of transmedia storytelling

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Worldbuilding: Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future

  • 1. Worldbuilding Using Transmedia Storyworlds to Shape the Future By Peter von Stackelberg Presented at Data Ecologies 2014 Linz, Austria May 2014
  • 2. We must tell stories about the future to shape the future
  • 3. Emotion is a key element in human information processing
  • 6. A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose- flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. - Brave New World, Aldus Huxley
  • 8. Transmedia storytelling is… …telling one or more related stories across two or more types of media
  • 9. The use of transmedia storytelling is growing
  • 13. Careful design is absolutely critical for effective transmedia stories
  • 14. Worldbuilding is the process of creating a “universe” within which all your stories exist
  • 15. J.R.R. Tolkien was a master worldbuilder
  • 17. Story development often begins with characters and expands outward from there
  • 19. Storyworld development begins with the world and multiple stories emerge from it
  • 20. Worldbuilding involves three key design tasks: • Narrative design • Audience engagement design • User interaction design
  • 24. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise
  • 25. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea
  • 26. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea • Identify designing principle
  • 27. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea • Identify designing principle • Identify central conflict
  • 28. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea • Identify designing principle • Identify central conflict • Set storyworld timeframes
  • 29. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea • Identify designing principle • Identify central conflict • Set storyworld timeframes • Create events
  • 30. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea • Identify designing principle • Identify central conflict • Set storyworld timeframes • Create events • Create characters
  • 31. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea • Identify designing principle • Identify central conflict • Set storyworld timeframes • Create events • Create characters • Create significant objects
  • 32. Narrative Design • Select genre • Identify premise • Identify controlling idea • Identify designing principle • Identify central conflict • Set storyworld timeframes • Create events • Create characters • Create significant objects • Create settings
  • 33. Settings in a storyworld are defined by: •Topos
  • 34. Settings in a storyworld are defined by: •Topos •Demos
  • 35. Settings in a storyworld are defined by: •Topos •Demos •Chronos
  • 36. Layout the elements on the timeline for your storyworld
  • 37. Many storyworlds are static and frozen in time… …when they should be alive and dynamic
  • 38. “How do we get there from here?” “How did we get here from there?”
  • 41.  Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a storyworld’s existents, events, and settings. Audience Engagement Design • Identify desired audience action
  • 42.  Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a storyworld’s existents, events, and settings. Audience Engagement Design • Identify desired audience action • Identify audience gratifications
  • 43.  Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a storyworld’s existents, events, and settings. Audience Engagement Design • Identify desired audience action • Identify audience gratifications • Identify message(s)
  • 44.  Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a storyworld’s existents, events, and settings. Audience Engagement Design • Identify desired audience action • Identify audience gratifications • Identify message(s) • Select message function/effect
  • 45. Acquire Trigger Alter Reinforce Cognitive (What do you want them to know?) Affective (What do you want them to feel?) Physiological (What physical reaction do you want them to have?) Belief (What do you want them to believe?) Attitude (What attitude do you want them to display?) Behavior (How to you want them to behave?) Message Function/Effect Matrix
  • 46.  Story: A story emerges from the interrelationship of a storyworld’s existents, events, and settings. Audience Engagement Design • Identify desired audience action • Identify audience gratifications • Create message(s) • Select message function/effect • Determine audience agency
  • 47. User agency is the degree of control a user has over the storyworld
  • 49. Mobile devices are well-suited for transmedia stories
  • 50. User Interaction Design 1. Identify type(s) of participation
  • 51. User Interaction Design 1. Identify type(s) of participation 2. Determine media platforms
  • 52. User Interaction Design 1. Identify type(s) of participation 2. Determine media platforms 3. Determine storyworld entry points
  • 53. User Interaction Design 1. Identify type(s) of participation 2. Determine media platforms 3. Determine storyworld entry points 4. Determine inter-story transfer points
  • 54. User Interaction Design 1. Identify type(s) of participation 2. Determine media platforms 3. Determine storyworld entry points 4. Determine inter-story transfer points
  • 55. User Interaction Design 1. Identify type(s) of participation 2. Determine media platforms 3. Determine storyworld entry points 4. Determine inter-story transfer points 5. Identify the calls-to-action
  • 56. So where do we go with this?
  • 59. Over his lifetime Miguel Santiago had watched the Gulf eat away his home. He was a BOI – born on the Island – as were his parents and grandparents. They were gone now…entombed in the family’s mausoleum which lay under the water that had taken everything from him.
  • 60. Water filled his boots as Miguel walked through the empty streets. When he was a child the Gulf was 20 miles from downtown, a 30 minute car ride along I-45 South when traffic was good, an eternity when traffic was bad – as it usually was. Now the Gulf covered Louisiana Street and lapped at the foot of One Shell Plaza. Miguel walked in silence, determined to get as far as he could. He was determined to go home to Galveston.
  • 61. The story is the most important element of transmedia storytelling

Notas del editor

  1. Worldbulding involves three key design tasks: Narrative design Audience engagement design User interaction design
  2. The narrative design phase focuses on the design of the story elements of the transmedia narrative.
  3. Narrative Design – Select genre Will define the similar settings, content and subject matter, themes, plots, central narrative events, styles, structures, recurring icons, situations, and characters (Dirks, 2011) for all stories within that storyworld. It will also define the expectations of your audience and will have a significant role in defining who your audience will be.
  4. Narrative Design – Identify premise 1 sentence “hook” that is a teaser about the storyworld Make it audience-centric “How will you survive in a world that has become more dangerous?”
  5. Narrative Design – Identify controlling idea 1 sentence describing how and why things have changed from one state of existence at the beginning to another at the end “Our world is destroyed because we failed to heed warnings of the danger.”
  6. Narrative Design – Identify designing principle 1 sentence that expresses the idea around which the storyworld is synthesized It provides the overall logic and strategy for the stories within the storyworld “Force individual audience members to confront the consequences of failing to act.”
  7. Narrative Design – Identify central conflict 1 sentence that focuses on “Who fights whom over what?” “Those seeking to halt climate change are in a struggle with those who seek short-term gain while our futures hang in the balance.” These 4 – premise, controlling idea, designing principle, and central conflict – are the foundation for the “grand story” of this storyworld They keep the storyworld together and make individual stories recognizable as part of the same storyworld Each story in the storyworld must have its own premise, controlling idea, designing principle, and central conflict, but they all are connected to their corresponding storyworld level element
  8. Narrative Design – Set storyworld timeframes Every storyworld has a temporal component Pick a convenient starting and ending date Make it very broad to encourage expansion of the storyworld You can adjust it later
  9. Narrative Design – Create events Events are a change in the state of an entity such as a setting or character. How characters react to events is an important part of a story External events (outside of a character in the story) may be the result of an Uninitiated change (out of the control of a character in the story). A war story, for example, may have the war as an uninitiated change if the main characters are ordinary soldiers on the frontlines. Initiated change is the result of the actions of a character in the story. If the actions of a leader that take a nation into war are part of the narrative, the war would be an example of an initiated change. Internal events (inside the character – usually psychological affecting beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors)
  10. Narrative Design – Create characters You can begin to drop characters into your storyworld I won’t go into a full description of what is needed to develop a character At this stage, just the basics are needed Start by putting dates for birth and death on the timeline You would be surprised how many authors don’t look at the totality of the lifespan of a character Rather, they think about the character at a specific point in time in the story Put in some of the major events in the character’s life
  11. Narrative Design – Create significant objects Significant objects are some type of object that have a specific meaning in the storyworld The ring in Lord of the Rings The submarine in Hunt for Red October The cash/jewels/treasure in various caper and adventure stories There are two types of significant objects: Plot-Significant: A plot-significant object has a substantial impact on the story’s plot; without it the story would change significantly. Character-Significant: A character-significant object has some sort of significance to a particular character but does not have a significant impact on the story’s plot.   The properties of a significant object are: Physical Characteristics: The physical characteristics of the significant object describe its size, weight, appearance, and other physical aspects. Value: The significant object has value to the characters in the story. This value may be: Intrinsic – it is worth money (e.g. a treasure, money, etc.) Source of power – it gives the person who possesses it magical, political, or some other form of power Symbolic – it has spiritual, emotional, sentimental, or similar symbolic value
  12. A setting is the stage on which a narrative occurs Goes far beyond the physical characteristics of a place in which events happen.
  13. Topos – the physical characteristics of the world Physical laws that exist in the storyworld (i.e. faster-than-light travel or magic) Geography Climate, weather, and seasons (i.e. the seasons are a key element in Game of Thrones) Flora Fauna Built infrastructure (i.e. roads, buildings, etc.)
  14. Demos – the people (or other sentient beings), their society, culture, and technology Ethnic, Racial and Species Groups Food Clothing Languages Social Structures Family Structure Religious Institutions Social Hierarchy, Stratification & Differentiation Political Systems & Institutions Economic Systems & Institutions Law Enforcement Military Media & Entertainment Other Culture Beliefs Values Norms (Laws) Norms (Folkways) Norms (Mores) Norms (Sanctions) Symbols & Myths Technologies
  15. Chronos – the “official” and unofficial history of the storyworld All events Mythology (how the past, present, and future is viewed)
  16. As you lay out these various elements on the timeline, the framework for your storyworld begins to emerge. You are able to quickly see the different characters, settings, significant objects, and events both individually and in relation to each other. While there may be a history (generally a backstory of some sort of the characters) the changes in the storyworld and its various elements over time and the underlying causes of those changes are usually not well elaborated on.
  17. This overview of the pieces and the whole are important Storyworlds are static, frozen in one particular state. Missing from most storyworlds that I’ve studied is an explicit recognition of their dynamic nature. While there may be a history (generally a backstory of some sort of the characters) the changes in the storyworld and its various elements over time and the underlying causes of those changes are usually not well elaborated on.
  18. From a futures studies perspective in particular, it is important to have the stories individually and the storyworld as a whole provide the audience with an understanding of the path of change and the reasons for that path. If the story/stories are looking forward, the audience needs to know “How do we get there from here?” while if they are looking backward from a particular point in the future the audience needs to know “How did we get here from there?”
  19. Stories emerge from the storyworld
  20. Your decisions on user agency will have a huge impact on what your storyworld needs to include.
  21. User Agency The amount of user control over the narrative is determined by the degree of user agency. The greater the ability of users to set goals, plan their attainment, and be rewarded with changes in the narrative environment, the greater the degree of user agency. User Control of Characters While it may be tempting to design a transmedia narrative so that users can play the role of a major character, research has shown that the audience response to that approach is generally negative. A study of the British television series Spooks and its associated transmedia gaming elements found that fans of the series did not want to step into the roles of the fictional characters seen on television (Evans, 2008). Dena also notes that allowing game players take the roles of a limited number of major characters in a narrative is impractical if a multi-player role-playing game is part of the storyworld (Dena, 2009, pp. 208-209). A better strategy is to create classes of characters that allow potential transmedia game players to role-play a member of a certain class of players (Dena, 2009, pp. 208-209). For example, players might take on the role of a hobbit or dwarf from Lord of the Rings or a “field agent” in a game based on the Spooks program. User Role in Narrative Determining whether the user’s role is internal (projected into the narrative through an avatar or first person perspective) or external (situated outside the narrative) will have a significant impact on the nature of the transmedia project. If an internal user role is selected, the user is projected into the narrative either in a first person perspective or through an avatar. If the external mode, the user is situated outside the narrative as an observer able to see everything that happens within the narrative – in effect, like a god looking in from above. The user role, when linked to the degree of user agency, determines the fundamental structure of the transmedia project.
  22. The user interaction design phase focuses on how users physically interact with the interface and navigate through the transmedia narrative. User interaction is a set of decisions and actions taken by the user to navigate the transmedia narrative and consists of a cyclical process that occurs each time a user needs to make a decision while navigating through a transmedia narrative. The single biggest interaction design challenge for transmedia storytelling is the use of multiple forms of media. Each has its own interface, conventions, and types of interactions. As much as possible, consistency across media is essential The “friction” of moving from one form of media to another is a significant design issue Examples
  23. Mobile devices are an excellent platform for transmedia stories. Graphics, text, video, music, and other types of content can run on them. Tablets in particular are large enough that you can put a lot of content on the screen but small enough to carry around.
  24. User Participation looks at how the user will interact with the narrative Social Participation: The level of social participation can range from individual to shared activities. Temporal Participation: A narrative’s temporal participation can range from time-agnostic (the user can participate at any time) to time-dependent (the user must participate at a specific time). Spatial Participation: A narrative’s spatial participation can range from location-agnostic (it doesn’t matter where the user is while participating) to location-dependent (a specific location is important to understanding the meaning of the narrative). Sensory Participation: A narrative’s use of the five senses – sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell – is the basis of sensory participation.
  25. Determine Media Platforms Talk about exposure limitations, etc.
  26. Determine Storyworld Entry Points Interaction design must ensure that the first call-to-action a user encounters provides the appropriate amount of information to enable an effective interaction with the transmedia narrative. The entry point call-to-action should quickly communicate the conventions for interacting with the narrative as a whole and then move the user into the narrative. For web-based entry points, the page that the primary URL points to -- typically the home page – is critical to establishing both the user conventions for both the narrative and interaction aspects of the transmedia narrative. The amount of information needed at the beginning of a journey varies among individuals. Some – improvisational wayfinders – need only a little information while others who will do a lot of up-front planning will need a lot of information (Passini, 2000, pp. 90 - 91). Just adding information is not sufficient, however. That information needs to be appropriate and sufficient to provide informational wayfinders the cues they need while providing other users more information. It also needs to be focused on getting the user into the transmedia narrative and should not direct them away from it.
  27. Determine Inter-Story Transfer Points
  28. Call-to-Action: Triggers the user’s awareness and motivation to engage in an interaction and facilitates the user’s cross media interaction. A call-to-action should consist of these four elements: Attractor: The attractor gains the attention of users and draws them into areas of interest in the transmedia narrative. Sensory affordances are particularly important in the design of the attractor. Motivator: The motivator helps stimulate the user develop a goal and make a task decision. Cognitive affordances are particularly important in the design of the motivator. Connector: The connector provides the user with the mental and physical links needed to attain the goal and accomplish the task decision. Cognitive and physical affordances are particularly important in the design of the connector. Retainer: The retainer delivers the “reward” to the user. This should be a memorable moments. Functional affordances are particularly important in the design of the retainer.
  29. So how do we apply all of this to communicating about the future? We identify the issue… We figure out our storyworld Then we start creating our stories. For example, a young woman returns to her home in the Sand Hills
  30. About a 1000 years ago the Sand Hills were a desert with massive moving sand dunes. They cover 22,000 square miles (57,000 square kilometers) About 2/3 the size of Austria About ¼ the size of the United Kingdom About 1/10 the size of France
  31. Mixing fact and fiction to create a hybrid transmedia narrative.