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WyrdCon and my moderating my first panel!

09 Jun 2011 by Angelique

I want to tell you all about this amazing event that is happening this weekend, and that I get to be a part of. It is called WyrdCon.

WyrdConWyrdCon is an interactive theater convention. From my understand, Interactive theater covers LARPS (Live Action Role Plays), RPGs (Role Playing Games) and ARGs (Alternate Reality games). In my opinion these genres are types of entertainment that will only be more relevant to the general public with the convergence of various media forms. One of the important aspects of interactive theater is that it plays on the notion of escape and wanting to become someone else. Everyone wants to escape and be someone else at some point or another and this is a way to do so. To learn more about what exactly WyrdCon is you can click here for the mission statement and here for a Day in the Life of a WyrdCon organizer.

For the first time Wyrdcon will be hosting a Transmedia panel. This panel will be a Transmedia 101 of sorts to examine the different ways that various new media platforms can be used to enhance participants role and participation in interactive theater experiences. Personally, I’m extremely excited for this panel because it will be my first time moderating a panel! And I have some awesome people on the panel. If you are in the Southern California area and are interested there will be tickets sold at the door. Come by and say hi if you can make it, it is sure to be a great weekend.

And our WyrdCon Transmedia panels are…

Hope to see you at WyrdCon!

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Welcome to AngeliqueToschi.com

03 Jun 2010 by Angelique

Hello friends!

So over the years I wondered to myself, why don’t I have a website in order to market myself. I have a blog about creativity (and whatever else I want to write about), I tweet, I facebook, I link in – and yet I haven’t had my very own space on the web… until now.

I have reposted most of my social media and new media communications related posts from Efficient Creativity. I will be continuing to post here on topics such as:

  • New Media
  • Social Media
  • Social Entertainment
  • Career Development
  • The Job Hunt
  • Advertising, Marketing, and PR related topics

This will also be my new home base. If you want to see any of the other sites I participate please look to the “Follow Me” tab on the right side of the screen.

Thank you for visiting and please enjoy my little piece of the web.

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Level 26 Comic Con Panel

10 Aug 2009 by Angelique

As many of you know I have becoming increasingly fascinated with transmedia entertainment due to my graduate studies in Mass Communications. So when I heard that Anthony Zuiker was doing a book with a online web component I was excited. I still can’t wait to see how this will unfold when the book was released. I also had the pleasure of attending the comic con panel for Level 26 and I took video to share with all of you.

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Final Papers for You to Enjoy

28 May 2009 by Angelique

So after about two hours I finally realized what I had done wrong when trying to attach a PDF file to my last blog entry. So here are three of my papers for your enjoyment! ;)

Disneyization

This was written for my Deconstructing Disney class. It was a graduate level course that studied Disney and the effects it has or is percieved to have on society. I argued that Disney is NOT negative to society.

Creative Process Paper

This paper was also written for my Deconstructing Disney class. It was our final paper for the semester and in lieu of a written final. I was even able to interview two storywriters from Walt Disney Imagineering for this paper. It’s very interesting, even to those not studying Mass Communications.

Transmedia Storytelling and Convergence Culture

The paper that made me cry. But also the one I am most proud of. For my Mass Communications Theory Class (graduate level) we had to write a research proposal for our final project, and as a requirement we had to look at the future of mass communications. While we did not do the actual research, I’m definately thinking about that for my next research class as this paper was interesting to write. Talks about Harper’s Globe, Harper’s Island, Dollhouse, etc.. If you enjoy it and want to fund a research project let me know ;) .

That is all for now. I still have lots to write about the L.A. Times Festival of Books, Bear’s First Trip to Disneyland, and lots of other ideas floating around in my head, but those will wait until another time.

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