ABSTRACT
The term 'motion pictures' is most commonly applied to film: movies projected to audiences of relative strangers in a theatre setting. Stories that work best in moving image formats use cinematic techniques to guide the audience's attention to story information that is crucial for them to understand in order to make sense of the story. There are two types of treatments that filmmakers use - a narrative treatment and an aesthetic treatment. The challenges of a project of this scale may have to do more with the production realties inherent with each medium than with difficulties with the storytelling aspects of the individual platforms, though when we're developing a transmedia production, one must consider all of these issues. The story's style and tone is alluded to in the script but it is ultimately communicated to the audience visually, which brings in factors such as the production design the sound design and the actors' performance.
