Our team works with filmmakers, writers, publishers, broadcasters, storytellers and technology start ups globally – incubating new franchises, participative experiences, production, story architecture, mythology and planning, prototyping, audience development and engagement and utilizing social media.
Our founder has over 25 years experience in professional storytelling and entertainment working with working with such companies as Walt Disney Imagineering, SundanceTV/AMC Networks, CBS Interactive, Coca Cola, XBox (Microsoft), Schleich GmbH, FOX International, Penguin, Harlequin Mills & Boon, F&W Media, Eurovision Broadcasting Union, Cedars Sinai Medical Centre and is a member of the International Academy for Arts & Sciences of TV, Writers Guild of Great Britain, Women in Film & TV, Romantic Novelists Association and a featured member of the BAFTA Guru Series.
INTERNATIONAL JURIES & COMMITtEES
https://ipf.ca/2017/06/independent-production-fund-ipf-web-drama-series-2017-phase-2-results/
http://www.cartoonsbay.rai.it/en/
https://www.cmf-fmc.ca/funded-projects/evaluation-juries
MEDIA PANELS & INTERVIEWS
BVE 2018
The Storytellers Stage: Classic stories for a new generation
Chair: Alison Norrington, CEO - storycentral
Mark Everson, Paddington 2
Suzanne Mackie, Creative Director - Left Bank Pictures, 'The Crown' Seasons I & II, 'Mad Dogs'
Some stories never get old, and neither do the minds who are finding new ways to tell them.
Merging Media 2012
Renowned Transmedia Strategist Alison Norrington provides an eye-opening overview of Pervasive Media and the potency of participatory experiences and multi-dimensional Alternate Reality Game play in cross-media adaptations today.
CITATIONS, ACADEMIC JOURNALS & BOOKS
Alison Norrington has been cited, quoted, interviewed or mentioned in a series of industry and academic books, including:
UNIVERSITY AFFILIATIONS, VISITING LECTURER & TRAINING/EDUCATION
Alison is Visiting Fellow at Solent University, Portsmouth and has lectured at many universities and film schools around the world as well as co-creating BA & MA level curriculum/modules for:
Solent University, Southampton - Visiting Fellow
London Film School - https://lfs.org.uk/staff/1575/alison-norrington
Singapore Media Academy (Mediacorp) - http://www.mediaacademy.sg/pages/Alison-Norrington
Exeter University - MA International Film Business - https://www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/creative/film-business-ma/
Royal College of Art, London - MA Digital Direction - https://www.rca.ac.uk/study/programme-finder/digital-direction-ma/
Falmouth University / Exeter University - http://www.fxplus.ac.uk/events/english-writing-guest-lecture-series-alison-norrington
Bath Spa University - https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/liberal-arts/research/centre-for-media-research/previous-symposiums/transmedia-uk/
University of Malta - https://www.um.edu.mt/newsoncampus/events/2012/transmedia
Baltic Film & Media School, Tallinn, Estonia - https://talkingobjects.org/2012/10/24/alison-norrington-is-coming-to-bfm-next-week/
University of Wolverhampton
University College, Cork, Ireland
International Film Schule, Cologne, Germany
Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA - http://www.liberty.edu/academics/catalogs/index.cfm?PID=33766
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS
In our LABS, Television & Film Development Training and Supersize Your Story Program, we constantly recommend resources and reading materials.
Here’s a list that we’ll continue to update as we find new gems:
Into The Woods -John Yorke
1. Into the Woods
This fantastic resource from ex-BBC Controller, John Yorke kicks off by comparing well known, blockbuster stories that we all know and love, and unpacking how, essentially EVERYTHING has been done before…. Food for thought and critical for a storyteller to see the patterns in story.