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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here is the link to my remix: http://cyoalittlemermaid.carrd.co My remix is a choose-your-own adventure version of “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen. The final result ended up somewhere between a typical choose-your-own adventure book and a rudimentary visual novel (due to my lack of skill), and includes a variety of different story routes that…
For my remix, I decided to do a video–even though my video editing skills are horrible–using an 1863 book about snowflakes that I found on that public domain website. The authors featured in that text attributed all sorts of heavy symbolic meanings to snowflakes, so I figured it would be fun to compare that to…