Writing Sample: Introductory Remarks to Academic Conference Panel

Opening Remarks for Session 3606 Film: Film XVI: Transmedia Storytelling at the 2012 Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association

Topic: Introductions

Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate scholars of popular culture

Intended Reaction: Inform and Persuade

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Good morning and welcome to Session 3606 Film: Film XVI: Transmedia Storytelling.

My name is Andrew Rosbury, and I am the session chair.

The interest of this panel is Transmedia Storytelling. Transmedia Storytelling is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

If you have read a book and then watched the filmed adaptation all on the same screen, whether it be your phone, personal computer or tablet, you have engaged in Transmedia Story interaction.

There are three panelists who will be presenting topics today for your consideration.

To save your senses from going completely dull I will conclude the panel’s presentations if anyone is still awake or still in the room.

I digress.

Our first presentation will be Ages of Arda: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth as Prototype for Transmedia Storytelling presented by Dr. Mark Keuthan.

When Dr. Keuthan has concluded I will introduce Professor Andrew Quicke who will be presenting Blue Eyes or Brown Eyes? Comparing The Jesus Film & Karunamayudu as Transglobal Transmedia Evangelism

To conclude our panel’s presentations, I will be presenting The Indirect Challenge to Certainty and the Question of Faith in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line.

Dr. Keuthan…

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