For my remix, I found a text on The Public Domain Review titled “The Life of James F. O’Connell the Tattooed Man”. The text was an autobiographical account of O’Connell’s travels before he joined P.T. Barnum’s freak show in the 1800s; I decided to make an erasure poem that made it a bit more eerie. The…
10: Transmedia Storytelling and A Series of Unfortunate Events
My favorite book series as a child was A Series Of Unfortunate Events. I remember thinking about how I was going to solve the mystery that was VFD and figure out the relationship between Beatrice and the books’ author Lemony Snicket. Some may relate to my love for the series and some may find it to…
9: My Remix
For my remix project, I created a compilation video to educate people on African-American hair. I initial only wanted to use clips from television shows and movies with predominantly black casts or at least the main focus being the black experience. However, my resources to gather the clips I needed were not plentiful, so I…
10: Transmedia Storytelling – Resident Evil Franchise
Resident Evil is a media franchise that started in 1996 with the release of the first video game of the same title. Resident Evil’s platform of origin was the original PlayStation gaming console created by Sony. The game was both published and developed by the Japanese video game company Capcom, and falls under the genres…
Nancy Drew: A Transmedia Franchise
Like Hannah, the first franchise that came to mind while I read Jenkins “Searching for the Origami Unicorn,” was one from my childhood. Nancy Drew has been owned by the Simon and Schuster, Inc. publishing company since 1984, but the original books were first published beginning in 1930. This franchise has blossomed far beyond the…
Harry Potter Transmedia Storytelling
In “Searching for the Origami Unicorn,” Henry Jenkins writes, “a transmedia story unfolds across multiple media platforms, with each new text making a distinctive and valuable contribution to the whole.” The first transmedia story I thought about was Harry Potter. It is a fantasy series written by J.K. Rowling that follows the life of a…
My Remix
https://www.instagram.com/dunce_cat/ For my remix, I took photos of cats from 1911 and turned them into memes. I actually found this a bit challenging because I’m not so much of a meme maker and a lot of these cats were creepy. I got the idea from the Public Domain Review because they related these pictures to…
10. Star Wars
As Vivian said in her post, Jenkins defines transmedia storytelling as a text that goes across “multiple platforms” in “Searching for the Origami Unicorn”. The only other examples I could think of when it comes to transmedia storytelling I could really only think of “Star Wars” and Disney productions as well. This is probably because…
10: Transmedia Storytelling and Game of Thrones
The Game of Thrones franchise is an example of transmedia storytelling because, though its main story is told through the Song of Ice and Fire book series, there are a variety of other media across different platforms that contribute to the overall story and world of Westeros. Transmedia is a way of “integrating multiple texts…
Trump Headlines Remix Project (US)
For my remix project, I created an interactive map of the United States with headlines about Donald Trump during his 2016 Presidential Election campaign (specifically, from September 2016.) My goal was to show the polarized views of op eds published by newspapers across the country. The background image shows the political leanings of each state…