It’s fascinating to me because your background is in writing for TV/Film as a contracted ‘provider of content’ (feel free to correct me, if I miss a vital element – it’s likely to happen! ) – my relationship with my ‘art’ has always been on the level of ‘make it because I love it, then try to market the end result where my hunch tells me it will be best received.’ I’ve always tried to abstract those two parts of the process from eachother.

Where your framework is most interesting to me is the fragmenting of ‘moving images’ into the technology/social space-divided sub genres of TV/cinema/mobile/web – I’ve never really gone through that process with my relationship with music, even though music works in the same way – be it live, recorded, shared, background, soundtrack, club-night… maybe I’ll try writing specifically for each scenario and see how I get on – I wonder if it would refine or dilute my own sense of what’s of value in music.

Thanks so much for the discussion, let’s keep it going x

I intended to contrast film with TV, but feared I was talking too long. In short, TV tells stories differently because you follow characters over time, and these characters must be ones you’d invite into your home on a weekly basis. Furthermore, TV stories and characters tend to be “life-sized” while film is “larger-than-life” because that is how they appear on-screen. For example, you’ll find that the detective genre has largely died out in films, but it looms large in television. While film is a large-scale in-person social event, television can either be intensely personal or enjoyed in-person on a family or family-like scale.

The way people “interact” with a film screen and a TV screen and their hand-held mobile devices differs, so even if you showed the same content on all three, your enjoyment of same would be different. As creators, we must be aware of the unique abilities and technology of each medium and create content that works best in that format.

Certainly all of these media can go further in the way they incorporate social media and mobile devices, but it’s important to recognize these media already have distinctive differences that it would be foolish to ignore. We saw the workshop groups successfully explore many ideas that took both concerns into account.

It’s a shame we didn’t get to hear anything from NickB about his http://protagonize.com/ site, WRT to the future of novels/short stories…

but this is the strength of it for me – we all now know who eachother, and can create our own space to dig a little deeper, to swap ideas and continue the party x

I met a couple of people from NGage at the party – lovely people, but they didn’t seem to like my idea of adding a ‘negotiate’ option to their new fighting game… The idea of virtually kicking someone in the head is anathema to me

I really hope we can continue the conversation at some point – I’m fascinated by your journey from old media to games narratives, and would love to chat more about it… xx

If it’s any consolation, I am mad for games, and didn’t end up in the game group, nor did I once meet any of the Nokia people from NGage, their gaming device. Guess we can’t always have what we want