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…
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…
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…
10: Transmedia Storytelling and Theme Park Rides
One thing that immediately stood out to me in the reading was the mention of theme park rides being an example of lending to transmedia storytelling. “The media mix strategy disperses content across broadcast media, portable technologies such as game boys or cell phones, collectibles, and location-based entertainment centers from amusement parks to game arcades” (Jenkins 110). Entire theme parks…
10: Transmedia: Hasbro’s Success and Failure
The My Little Pony franchise is one of Hasbro’s biggest moneymakers next to Transformers. Primarily a toy company, Hasbro started using TV shows to market its toys in the 80’s, with great results. The shows brought the toys to the attention of the children, who wanted to continue the adventures after the show ended. The…
4: Serialized Webcomics
For my genre project I am looking at serialized webcomics, a genre that includes webcomics that tell a story through several installments of comic pages. Serialized webcomics are an interesting genre because they take aspects of the comic and adapt them for digital spaces. I decided to research this genre for my topic because I…