It wasn’t until I read Vivian’s post that I realized how complicated making my portfolio would be. Kathleen Nancy goes into the complexity of electronic portfolios and how they can differ from traditional printed portfolios, which are more straight forward. After reading this I thought it was obvious what I was going to include in…
So I’m not sure exactly what I want to do but one idea I have is to use a short story I wrote last semester called “Endurance”, which goes back and forth between two time periods in running and hockey scenes. I have some ideas as to make this a transmedia storytelling but nothing is…
I think it’s safe to say that I have truly never thought about transmedia storytelling before in my life, and definitely have not looked at it as a technique that can be used as a form of marketing and tool for prolonged fandom. In the Origami Unicorn, Jenkins writes, “any given product is a point…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…