Transmedia NODES, a narrative universe under construction, is a work of transmedia creation and, at the same time, a knowledge transfer strategy of the transmedia proposals made in Colombia. The project is made up of a dataweb, a podcast and an interactive documentary. The purpose of this initiative is to interrelate in the digital environment, artistic practices related to the creation, development, audiences, markets, exhibition, and circulation of transmedia and multiplatform works created in the country, for their dissemination and enhancement of these works in academic, cultural, and artistic settings.

The Dataweb is made up of a graph or set of nodes that present the information of the transmedia projects tracked in the country since 2009, the year in which Meandros appeared, the first project of this type. The graph information does not have a linear reading, its navigation allows filters by year, genre, expanded products, nominations, awards, themes, genres, among others. This form of data visualization allows a more focused navigation towards the search and discovery of the user.

The podcast broadens the experience of the filmmakers by telling particularities of products expanded in hybrid reality, such as virtual reality and augmented reality, due to the interest they currently arouse.

TRANSMEDIA NODES project, a narrative universe under construction, alludes to its name; For those interested, it is a chance to find in a single space information regarding transmedia production in the country and a meeting point to understand the dynamics of this type of project. This is a project for the promotion and circulation of Colombian transmedia projects, knowledge transfer, and an audience training strategy.

This project arises in the absence of a documentary base and an exhaustive analysis of the growing number of transmedia projects carried out in Colombia, in the absence of a space where the status of the works could be known, how to access them, who was involved in their creation and financing, what awards they have won and what exhibition spaces exist. Added to this is the low promotion that these works have since, since they are not in a single digital space, it is difficult to track them and there is a lack of dissemination in the country.

Stimuli and selection

Initially, the Transmedia research in Colombia was carried out: analysis of the production, circulation and exhibition of audiovisual content on digital platforms. Possibilities for the formation of audiences and the consolidation of the multiformat audiovisual content market study that obtained the cinematography research stimulus from the Cinematographic Development Fund in 2018. The investigation allowed the consolidation of a database with 136 projects, which show the growing production of transmedia in Colombia. In addition to understanding the characteristics regarding its creation, exhibition and financing from the perspective of the actors that have been involved: filmmakers, staff from government entities, representatives of the academy and specialized festivals.

Transmedia NODOS emerged from this process, completed in 2020, whose purpose is to disseminate the results obtained from the research and become a meeting point for those who want to learn to produce, finance and learn about exhibition spaces, calls, types of expanded products and expand information on projects that have been carried out in the country, a free access space for connoisseurs and non-connoisseurs of the subject. NODOS tries to respond to the problem of the few training spaces on transmedia, in addition to being a benchmark for the growing industry of new media and expanded narratives in Colombia.

TRANSMEDIA NODES PROJECT

Stimuli and selection

Transmedia en Colombia

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