Empathy for characters is a key element of great storytelling. When we become emotionally invested in a character’s journey, we gain a deeper understanding of their experiences and perspective. This emotional connection allows us to see the world through their eyes, which can broaden our own perspective and foster empathy and understanding. Great stories create characters that we care about, that we feel for, and that we want to succeed. We become immersed in their world, feeling like we are living their story alongside them. So it can feel like a loss when put down the book, shut off the TV or stop the podcast.

Immersive storytelling takes this idea of immersion to the next level by more fully integrating us in the world and characters of the story. By becoming participants in the story rather than just passive observers. This can be achieved through mixing mediums (such as text, images and videos), interactive experiences (like the Bridgerton interactive theatre, personalized phone calls and text exchanges), and games.

With a blend of contact points, immersive storytelling can create fully realized worlds and characters that we can explore and interact with. The fans can make choices that affect the outcome of the story, allow exploring virtual worlds, and even interact with characters in real-time. Immersive storytelling provides an unparalleled level of engagement that allows us to experience stories in new and exciting ways, making them even more memorable and impactful.

Who am I? My name’s Jeremy and this is my journey to make your most beloved characters feel like your best friend. To let you ride beside them in the sky and comfort them in their darkest times.

It really did take me a long time to get here. This here, right now here. The here where everyone from work is gone and the office is empty and I’m still surreptitiously working on my passion project that’s been burning hotter in me every day till it feels like spontaneous human combustion is real and I am about to experience it! I’ve tried before. I had decided a while back that I was starting with Sherlock Holmes for many reasons. In a lot of ways it’s an earlier version of exactly what I want to achieve with Episodion.

So I began alone and like so many things, it’s really hard starting alone. I finally made it! Sure it’s rough on the edges, unpretty in places, and even some mistakes. But it’s done, and I presented it. And dammit I’m proud.

I’m building a group of people now. Writers, actors, artists and creative people that are really hungry to tell the most compelling and immersive stories. Audiences of people that want so badly to hear/see/feel these stories.

Let me know if you are also interested in working, with Episodion. Sign up to get future episodes as they are told, or purchase previous episodes in the store.

I’ll see you in the next episode!

-Jeremy

It’s been an tremendous few weeks. The cast, the crew, the excitement. The hard work, the setbacks. It’s all part of the necessary ingredients for making anything ambitious. I have so much appreciation and warmth for all the people now working with me to make really immersive stories. The talents are just amazing, you really have to look through the cast pages and see these creatives. But there is still more, much more that needs to be done, all the ‘backend’ work, the website, the business side of things.

So right now I have 3 episodes fully recorded audio. I’ll be releaseing them over the next couple weeks as I push to make a lot of progress on the website as well. Like a proud parent I am just bursting to share this with the world. And I hope everyone gets as excited as we are.

The danger, the worry is ‘What if no-one else likes it?’ that feeling of -potential- rejection. I know how corrosive that state is. As I release these I have to now ask for money, donations at first. But what if no-one is willing to pay for them? Am I imagining this? Or is it just too far off the mark still. I don’t know, but I’m standing at the cliff about to jump off. Is this the end for our hero or will it fly? Stay tuned and….

I’ll see you in the next episode!

-Jeremy