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Image by Xavi Cabrera
A picture of Bob the LEGO man

Transmedia Narrative Project

Transmedia storytelling is simply telling a grand narrative across multiple modes of information. This project example utilizes The LEGO Movie as a basis for exploring additional user-created narrative elements to enhance this already dynamic and interesting set of worlds that were first created through this movie.

About

The focus of this project is to challenge students to improve their narrative storytelling by utilizing an already established world. The examples in this project scope will be based on the fictitious addition to the movie entitled, The Other LEGO Movie: Bob's Adventure Down Under. 

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Products

Five example products for this narrative task can be found on this page.

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Synopsis

Bob is also a construction worker in Bricksburg, just like Emmet from The LEGO Movie. Unlike Emmet, Bob was particularly sarcastic and pessimistic, and he did not like the most famous song of their time, Everything is Awesome. However, Bob was still a hard worker and would always start work earlier than everyone else. Unbeknownst to him, the night that Emmet and Wylstyle discovered the “piece of the resistance” and left to meet the Master Builder’s, they failed to cover up the hole that he originally fell in. Bob also fell in the same hole early that morning and landed in the seemingly empty cave. His adventures began once he started to explore the depths of this mysterious cave…

Product Examples

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Digital Story

A digital presentation example created in Prezi of a full story arc for the narrative writing. For this example, the story arc will have at least the five main components in the story arc: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

02

Podcast

An audio podcast narrating the events from one of the story arc elements. This example describes the event for the rising action from this task.

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Graphic Novel

A visual representation showing the key events for one certain element in the story arc for the narrative task. It can be in the form of a storyboard, graphic novel, comic, etc.

04

Game Concept

Create a game concept that correlates to the narrative task. A full working game is not required, but a proof of concept with detailed explanations on how to play is necessary for the submission. Other examples could be a board game, card game, video game, etc.

05

Song or Poem

Create a poetic expression for a part of the story that was created. This can include any form of poetry: prose, acrostic, limerick,  haiku, rhyme, song, etc. This example shows a sample of song lyrics from the narrative.

Background LEGO Photo by Xavi Cabrera on Unsplash

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