The possibilities and opportunities within the transmedia documentaries production and storytelling

• Grant number: 15/02633-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2015
• End date: September 01, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications - Journalism and Publishing
• Principal Investigator: Denis Porto Renó
• Grantee: Pepita Martin Ortega
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/21960-8 - Script Writing Tecniques: from Linear to Transmedia, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

A media convergence and digital immersion scenario evidences the increasing relationshipapproach between consumption and production, and this leads to the speed we can observe3within communication field's changes. So, inside this context, the transmedia storytellingconcept emerges, a modality that intends to tell stories just like we put puzzles together,observing and using the more appropriate and different languages, devices and platforms to buildand interactive and user personalized path. However, we cannot see a big presence of this type ofstorytelling when talking about the documentary gender, despite its potential and possibilitieswithin the field, and so as inside the communication one. Therefore, the intention is toinvestigate the transmedia documentaries' production process and script, pointing out essentialtraces and evidencing new perspectives and obstacles. For that, it will be selected a theoreticalbasis and developed a demand analysis, complemented by movies' analysis and a description ofprocedures involved in a transmedia documentary's development. Lastly, a transmediadocumentary will be produced, experimenting the processes described and observed during theprevious study's phases, with a proposition of testing its viability and construction as a narrativeand tool typical of new communication experiences. In the future, will be presented a stage withthe professor Lorenzo Vilches, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), director of MasterDegree in Screen of Cinema and Television, interested in participate on the research.