ABSTRACT
When inviting the audience inside to become part of the story, the story universe and the audience universe converge into one space in which story and audience are mutually influential. With the audience journey now placed inside this universe, their passage through all the layers of the story influences how it unfolds. For a better understanding of this relationship, the layers of the story can be defined as a Story Sphere that can visualise story structures for a long line of platforms and media. The layers of the Story Sphere make up the immersive story and its components, regardless of media and whether it is physical, virtual or a hybrid of the two. The Story Sphere is constructed by a series of main layers so that each of them can contain several sublayers. They are: the core story concept, the storyline, the characters, the creatures, the objects, the space, the world, and the universe.
