Carolyn Handler Miller Livres

"Digital Storytelling shows you how to create immersive, interactive narratives across a bevy of platforms, devices, and media. From age-old, storytelling techniques to cutting-edge development processes, this book covers creating stories for all forms of entertainment like social media, transmedia, games, apps, and second screen experiences. The way a story is told, a message is delivered, or a narrative is navigated has changed dramatically over the last few years. Stories are told through video games, interactive books, and social media. Stories are told on all sorts of different platforms and through all sorts of different devices. They're immersive, letting the reader interact with the story, letting the reader shape the story themselves. This book features case studies that cover a multitude of platforms and different story types. It also shows you how to plan processes for developing interactive narratives for all forms of entertainment and messaging: advertising, education, and interactive cinema. Digital Storytelling features interviews with some of the industry's biggest names, showing you how they build and tell their stories New to this edition: - Coverage of new augmented reality programs and motion-based devices like Google Glass and Kinect. - Creating stories that use 'gamification.' - Stories told through mobile games. - Developing stories focused on a whole new generation of audiences. "--

PUCE TAKES THE REINS is the story of 10-year old Puce Wallace, whose life is unexpectedly changed - by a donkey! Puce is the youngest of four girls, and the sisters are being raised by a single mom, a landscape painter. Because Puce is the youngest, she is very much babied and lacks confidence in herself. But when Puce meets a donkey named Paprika, she starts down an exciting new path. Puce loses her "baby fat" and begins to grow into a self-assured young woman. The story is set in a rural village in Northern New Mexico. Though the characters are totally modern (everyone has cell phones), the pictures capture the rustic beauty and unique traditions of this region. The characters, as is typical in New Mexico, are a blend of cultures: Hispanic, Anglo, and Native American.