I shared a few thoughts on a selection of lines and barriers in transmedia last week and below is the data from google analytics this morning. [..]

What set me on the ramble below was the amount of creatives I know who, when they hear about transmedia get excited by the possibility of deceit – ‘We could fool people into…’ or, horrifyingly ‘We can MAKE people do this…!’

I want any writing/film/video/work I create to be involving, immersive, engaging and as real as possible – I build for belief in order to reflect or contrast the world in some ‘presented’ way. But this doesn’t seem to sit right in a Transmedia world. The landscape and barriers are different.

Transmedia offers the conceptual possibility of seeding a completely believable set of facts in a story framework: A true, false reality. One example is the construct lie that is never uncovered, and another is extending our worlds as far as possible to maintain suspension of disbelief.

Do we actually need to quest for this blinding belief in our storyworlds though?

I need to do a bit of thinking out loud… [..]