ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the often overwhelming notion of starting again. Beginning again is an unavoidable part of the cycle of working as a director-or even just aspiring to work as a director. It explores transmedia storytelling. Successful filmmakers are always searching for and developing new ideas, themes, and personal projects, as well as learning new technical skillsets. Storytelling is central to human existence and common to every culture. Historically, when technology created new means of telling story, there was usually an inaugural period when the new medium process copied the old. The development to final screenplay or documentary treatment stage is the longest, most difficult stage of the successful motion picture. The standard movie theater experience has become somewhat akin to opera, a specialty event, dependent on spectacle and big image. The Future of Storytelling is a large-scale study developed by a US-based transmedia company called Latitude.
