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A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling: How to Captivate and Engage Audiences across Multiple Platforms
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A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling: How to Captivate and Engage Audiences across Multiple Platforms

by Andrea Phillips
June 2012
Beginner
288 pages
6h 12m
English
McGraw-Hill
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10 Conveying Action Across Multiple Media

Action is all the stuff that happens in your story as a result of the intersection between characters and motivations. If there is no action, then nothing is happening; if nothing happens, you don’t have a story. So one of the primary tasks of a storyteller is to effectively and compellingly convey action.

We know how to convey action in video.

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We know how to do it in comics.

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