Carolyn
Miller's Credits
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New Media Projects (Writer, Designer, Consultant)
Video games and educational games:
Video Game: Cinematics Consultant for a soon-to-be-released
third-person action shooter, a game designed for the Playstation 3 and
Xbox 360.
The Carmen Sandiego games: Scriptwriter on this perennial hit CD-ROM
series... created four new characters, wrote dialogue and developed hundreds of
clues. (Broderbund Software)
JumpStart Artist: scriptwriter for this CD-ROM game which teaches
children about art fundamentals and art history -- part of the renowned,
best-selling JumpStart series of edutainment products for children. (Knowledge
Adventure)
Book Of Virtues: various special writing assignments for this
CD-ROM game and interactive story, based on William J. Bennett's best-selling
book and the PBS TV series
of the same name. (Digital Domain)
The Web:
Medical Cyberworld, a MMORPG (massively multiplayer
online role-playing game) initiated by the University of Wisconsin Medical
School. A so-called serious game, its goal is to teach essential skills
in patient-doctor communications (in development).
The Revenge Of The Claw: scriptwriter for this Flash-animated Webisodic, a
twisted tale of Hollywood magic gone seriously awry. Produced by Silicon Artists
(Madrid, Spain) for an early version of the Planet Hollywood Web site.
Global Window: Japan: head writer and content editor for this major informational
website about Japan. Site won a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival and
other prestigious awards. Produced by UCLA, Internal & External
Communications (IEC) and several universities in Japan.
Consulting: content and strategic consultant for Web and
cross-media projects for various media companies and entities, including the
Danish cross-media project, E-DAZE (a project which integrates a fictional
universe across the Web, a novel, a DVD, a feature film and a TV series),
special projects for UCLA (the University of California at Los Angeles) and
Sushi Bandit. For more about my work as a consultant, please see my page on Writing, Speaking, Teaching and Consulting.
Corporate Sites: content consultant and developer-writer for
various corporate sites, including eProNet (a dot com company specializing in
high level recruiting) and ePersonic (software developer and b to b site).
Special writing assignments for Acacia Research Inc., a
public incubator specializing in high tech and Web ventures.
Smart Toys, Electronic Devices, Convergence Projects:
Writer and/or consultant on projects for Hasbro Toys, Mattel Toys, Playmate Toys, Voice Powered
Technology, and FusionWorks. These projects involved integrated interactive toy
systems and electronic devices that combine various technologies, including
voice recognition, sensors, CD-ROMs and the Web. Am also developing my own
convergence projects for broadband and wireless devices.
CD-ROMs:
Toy Story Animated StoryBook: writer of the interactive CD-ROM version of the
hit feature, "Toy Story." (Disney
Interactive and Pixar)
Pocahonatas Animated StoryBook: Script consultant for the interactive
CD-ROM version of the animated feature, "Pocahontas." (Disney
Interactive)
Shelley Duvall Presents Digby's
Adventures: created interactive
storylines, developed characters and wrote all the dialogue for this animated
storybook about an insecure little Yorkie who gets lost -- in three different
ways. (Sanctuary Woods)
Random House
Kid's Encyclopedia (CD-ROM): created characters and wrote dialogue for
this interactive encyclopedia. (Knowledge Adventure and Random House)
Virtual Biopark: wrote the Cheetah section and worked on the
prototype of this interactive program about wildlife and ecology. (A project of
the Smithsonian Institution, National Zoo, and Simon & Schuster;
produced by AND Communications and the Computer Curriculum Corp. [CCC])
Quest: helped design the approach, structure, characters and content and
wrote the prototype script for this interactive career guidance project for
high school students (Invincible Enterprises)
Corporate Projects: instructional designer and writer of interactive
training CD-ROMs for various companies, including Ford
Motors and national supermarket chains (Kroger,
Inc., America's largest grocery chain and the Wakefern Corp., which
operates ShopRite Supermarkets). Designed navigation, determined content flow,
created characters, and wrote dialogue, games, simulations and quizzes.
Interactive TV:
TV411, a working iTV prototype with a wireless component. This project was an
enhanced version of the PBS series “TV411, which addresses adult literacy. The
prototype was produced under the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab.
Live Action TV And Film: Writer
Sometimes I Don't Love My Mother: ABC Afterschool Special about a college-bound
teenager whose father's sudden death causes her mother to become overly
dependent on her. Nominated for an Emmy for Writing. *
Just A Little Discipline: A CBS Schoolbreak Special about what happens when
a teenage girl reveals that her father's so-called "discipline" of
her younger brother is actually child abuse. *
Mystery At Fire Island: CBS Mystery Theatre (60 minutes) for Scholastic
Productions. Two youngsters who are trying to track down a missing fisherman
suddenly find themselves in the midst of an international smuggling operation.
*
I Don't Know Who I Am: NBC Special Treat for Daniel Wilson Productions. Nominated
for an Emmy for Best Children's Special of the Year. A 60 minute drama
about an l6-year old girl, adopted at birth, who goes off on a search for her
biological parents. *
On The Air: 12 part serial for the Disney Channel about four
teenagers who become fed up with the student run radio station at their school
and create their own controversial pirate station.
The Greater Glory -- historic drama set in 16th century Europe
against a background of jousting tournaments, warfare, and the Inquisition --
the story of St. Ignatius of Loyola (feature rewrite for the Pilgrim Production
Co.)
Francie -- true story developed as a Disney Channel movie
about a maverick teacher, a modern day miracle worker, who faces powerful
obstacles in trying to reach a deeply withdrawn little girl. *
Mary, The Woman -- feature developed with
Finnegan-Pinchuk/Morningstar Films telling the story of Mary, mother of Jesus,
showing how a young Jewish girl from a small village grapples with events that
drastically change her life. *
Special Mission KDX-01: series treatment and sample script for innovative
satellite-broadcast project, “The Galaxy Classroom” (Hughes Aircraft).
Master Of The Art: an episode for POWERHOUSE (a PBS series) A group
of kids decides to stage a mock heist to help a museum security guard get her
job back.
Math Works and Solve It: two educational and
entertaining series on math and problem solving for fifth and sixth graders.
Wrote three episodes for each. (Produced by the Agency for Instructional
Technology [AIT], Bloomington, Indiana.).
Vegetable Soup: Created and wrote 31-part outerspace adventure
serial for this PBS series, a program designed to increase children's awareness
of ethnic diversity.
Captain Kangaroo: staff writer for 2 years for the original
"Captain Kangaroo Show." Wrote 20 episodes of the series.
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* Written with Daryl Warner
Print and Other Text-based Writing
Books And Studies: Author
Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide
to Interactive Entertainment,
second edition, published by Focal Press, due out spring, 2008.
Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide
to Interactive Entertainment,
first edition, published by Focal Press, August, 2004.
Co-author (with
Elizabeth Mitchell) of the Writers Guild of America study “What’s Happening on the Web: A Writer’s
Perspective of an Emerging Medium”.
Co-author (with Prof. Itsuo Shirono) of
four books and accompanying CDs on American life written for students in Japan.
Author, History of Alaska, Land,
People, Events, John Hinde Curteich (2002)
Magazines And Newspapers
Former contributor to Videomaker
Magazine (covering video on the Web and other topics); write about new
media topics for various Writers Guild of America publications. Also write
general magazine and newspaper articles for such publications as The Los
Angeles Times, Creative Screenwriting, The Santa Fe New Mexican,
Early Music America, Horse Illustrated and The Gaited Horse.
Speaking And Teaching
Information on my work as a speaker and
instructor can be found here.
Organizations and Education
MEMBER: Writers
Guild of America, west (Vice Chair of the Guild’s newly formed
Emerging Technologies Advisory Committee
and a
member of both the Guild’s Animation Caucus and New Media Caucus, having
recently completed a term as vice chair for the New Media Steering Committee.
In New Mexico, a member of the Governor’s Council on Film and Media Industries
and New Mexico Women in Film.
EDUCATION: B.A., Cornell University; M.S. (Journalism), Northwestern University