This week in story lab we looked at 3 different low budget, short story styled web series. After going through each we where to pick one and look at a variety of different points to branch out and look at ways to further the webisodes through tansmedia storytelling.

We picked “The Guild” web series and came up with some areas which we could further use transmedia to apply to the series and how they could be utilised:

The Guild

• Create the game “The Guild” the characters in the series are playing.

Open it up to the audience . Pop ups of the characters discussing the game. . In game episode .creating new storylines

• Spin off the different blog diaries into webisodes.

Insight into other characters and then how they prepare for the meeting .Their perspective.

• Characters reviewing games in a podcast format .

Not really furthering story but it gets the group together again and adds a different level of understanding for people not loving the episode comical style but are more focused on the games

• Website

An interactive experience where the backstory of characters and the episode and allude to other things that character can do with his knowledge that could come into play later

• Graphic novel about the characters

Could further the stories in the game. . Adventures. . Different character development between characters that wouldn’t usually be together. . Exisiting stories could be furthered without need of actors and can be more imaginative.

• Comic strip themed of the guild .

Shorter to consume can entice people to look at the web series after they see the comic strip. . Can add a more comedic and in-depth element. .

• Animated version of the graphic novel.

People who prefer the animation and want to focus on that rather than real life. Greater way to give audience more content to digest.