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Robert Pratten @robpratten
Presentation to the World Innovation Convention, Cannes 2013

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engage through
intrinsic motivations
+
design for
active participation

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Robert Pratten
CEO & Founder, Transmedia Storyteller Ltd

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The Internet and Mobile Revolution

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The consumer has moved on

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http://www.survivalcode.com/ Wrigley’s 5 Gum

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Affordable solar LED lighting for rural
communities in the developing world

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The AirPi is an automatic air quality & weather monitoring device powered by a Raspberry Pi 
temperature, humidity, air pressure, light levels, UV levels, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide
and smoke level
http://airpi.es/

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CO affects
• character’s mood
• tone of tweets & blog posts
• game difficulty?

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• we have to design experiences that satisfy
core human needs
• ie. appeal to intrinsic motivations

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Significance (special, important, unique)
Certainty (comfort & control)
Variety (surprise)
Connection (love)
Growth (learning, mastery)
Contribution (giving back)

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Storyworld
Comfort
Growth
Learning
Surprise
Comfort
Growth
Learning
Surprise
Fan
Fan
Community
Significance
Contribution

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www.ActiveStorySystem.com

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Definition
• Requirements
• Goals
• Success Criteria
•KPIs, measurement
• Scope
•Countries, Territories,
Languages, Number of
Audience
•Interworking with other
companies & technologies
•Timing & duration
•Budget
• Customer
Development
• ActSS Define the World
•Story, Experience, Premise,
Goals, Audience, Platforms,
Execution
• One Sheet
• Title, log line, call to
action, short synopsis
• Creative direction
• look & feel, tone, mood,
age rating, violence,
language
• Team
• Risks
• Principal resources
• names and availability
• Principal creative
• Principal technical
development
• Inbound: Licensing &
copyrights
• Outbound: Franchising,
merchandising and
licensing
• Community
• management, editorial,
legal
• Business Case
Design
Delivery
•ActSS Design Operations
•Editorial & Legal processes,
•Premise, Themes, Characters,
Locations, Periods, Objects, Factions, Social media guidelines,
Community management,
Hierarchies
Escalation
• ActSS Define the Experience
• ActSS Define the story
•Gaming, Role-playing, Exploring,
Observing
• ActSS Define the Execution
•Timing, Events, Platforms, Pacing
• ActSS Write Synopsis
• ActSS Develop
Synopsis into Scenes
• ActSS Design the Engagement
• ActSS Design Interaction
• Platform-specific documentation
• Marketing Communications
• Series synopsis & arcs
• Future stories
• Media assets
•Video, audio, image, text, mobile,
web
• Events & locations
• Merchandise
• Touchpoints
•Owned, Paid, Earned
• Languages, countries, georestrictions
• Capacity planning
• Controls
•Production
•Implementation & testing
• Audience building &
community outreach
•Marketing communications
• Advertising, SEO, paid Search,
Seeding, PR, Social media
•Launch
•Operations
•Metrics

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Define the
World
• Story
• Experience
• Audience
• Platforms
• Goal1
• Execution
Define the
Story
• Premise
• Themes
• Characters
• Locations
• Periods
• Objects
• Factions
• Hierarchies
Define the
Experiences
• Goals
• Gaming2
• Role-playing2
• Exploring2
• Observing2
Define the
Execution
• Timing
• Events
• Platforms
• Pacing

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6. Develop
5. Write
synopsis
• Premise
• Themes
• Characters
• Conflict
7. Design the
Engagement
Synopsis into Scenes
• Information revealed
• Character development
• Audience quests
7. Design the
Engagement
• Personalization
• Actions
• Teams
• Pacing
• Motivations
• Immersion
• Personalization
• Actions
• Teams
• Pacing
• Motivations
• Immersion
6. Develop
Engagement into Scenes
• Information revealed
• Audience quests
• Character development
5. Write
synopsis
• Premise
• Themes
• Characters
• Conflict
8. Design the
Interaction
• Platforms
• Media
• Out-of-World
• In-World
• Block diagrams
• User Journey
• platforms
• phases
9. Design the
Operations
• Editorial process
• Legal process
• Social media
guidelines
• Community
management
• Escalation
• Metrics

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FEEL
Gaming
Role-playing
Moral dilemmas,
meaningful choices
Role-play,
provide building blocks
Observing
Exploring
Reflection, consideration
Exploring, discovering
THINK
DO
What will the audience do? How will they be engaged?

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On Location
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HEAD
HEART
EGO
SOUL
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Lead a better life - get
connected and help
us build an AppiCiti
(www.appiciti.com)
Lead a better life - get
connected and help
us build an AppiCiti
(www.appiciti.com)
connected and help
us build an AppiCiti
(www.appiciti.com)

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+ Uncertainty A
Future
Story 1
Future
Story 2
- Uncertainty B
+ Uncertainty B
Future
Story 4
Future
Story 3
- Uncertainty A

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Original price: $1.
Final price: $88.
http://significantobjects.com

21.
We sold
for
$128.74
Investment
$3612.51
Return
$128.74 worth of thrift-store junk
$3,612.51

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“Life is not measured by the
number of breaths we take,
but by the number of moments
that take our breath away”

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Taking the consumer on an
emotional journey goes from
moment to moment

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Robert Pratten
CEO & Founder, Transmedia Storyteller Ltd
@robpratten
Robert@tstoryteller.com
Europe: +44 207 193 4567
USA: +1 415 287 4150