Like Hannah, I also looked at my childhood interests to find an example of transmedia. I grew up obsessed with the Nancy Drew series, reading from the same copies my mom had saved from when she was a child. With nearly 200 books today, the series started in the 1930’s and has played an important…
10: Gotta Catch ‘Em All
Pokémon! For the record, I realize that Jenkins mentions Pokémon in his article–however, he only talks about it briefly, and I had this idea before finishing the article, so I figure that it’s still fair game. Pokémon is a Japanese franchise, mainly belonging to Nintendo, that started in 1995. At the time that I’m writing this,…
10: Transmedia Storytelling and Steven Universe
Like most of my fellow classmates while reading “Searching for the Origami Unicorn” I was reminded of not a movie or an old TV show but a video. Now I know you may be wondering if I am going to discuss Overwatch again and you’d be completely right. Since Overwatch is the only thing I…
9. My remix project
At the time of writing this my project is already done below is the video. What texts did you remix? I remixed songs which included: I’m Yours by Jason Mraz, Hey Soul Sister by Train, Paparazzi by Lady Gaga, Complicated by Avril Lavigne, Where is the Love by the Black Eyed Peas, and Nothing on…
9: A Haiku Remix
Below is the link to my digital remix: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u2Ato_fEf-PH9OxnzCbkYCtYmFyBAjNxMNco4LKqkyc/edit I wanted to engage with the age-old concept of poetry and song lyrics being intersecting genres, if not sometimes the same thing. I worked together with Alex, and together we chose several pop songs to remix. While Alex’s focused on the chord progression and musical…
10: Transmedia Storytelling and The Blair Witch Project
Having grown up on horror movies, the first thing that came to mind when I read “Searching for the Origami Unicorn” was The Blair Witch Project. For those who don’t know, The Blair Witch Project is the story about three college-age filmmakers investigating the legend of the Blair Witch in Burkittsville, Maryland. They interview some of the locals…
The Remix of A Lifetime!
For my remix assignment I did something unlike anything else that has ever been done before, except for the two people I worked with who also did projects related to News Headlines. Shout out to Emily Dilworth who basically did the same thing I did, but better and on a national scale, and Kay, who I…
10: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Transmedia Storytelling
While I was reading Jenkins’s essay “Searching for the Origami Unicorn”, one of my favorite franchises came to mind: the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, also known (to me) as The Only Thing That Looks Good in Papyrus. It was originally a television series, aired on Nickelodeon in 2005, running for three seasons to end in 2008. The…
9: The Life of the Tattooed (Remix)
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…