Throughout this semester we have done a lot of work in what both seems like a short amount of time, and a long time. I would definitely want to include my Remix project in my portfolio as it is the work I am most proud of for this class. Depending on how my Transmedia package…
For my transmedia project, I would like to create a series of three songs, videos that correspond to those songs, and a written short-story to go along with them. The songs/videos will tell a story that is deep and compelling, and the three will be very connected. (But possibly with different characters? See: The Lumineers’s…
As I read Framing Remix Rhetorically, I found myself thinking about a video I first watched in English class during senior year of high school—the Thug Notes summary and analysis of Hamlet. Thug Notes is a YouTube web series aimed at students. In the videos, comedian Greg Edwards, acting as the character “Sparky Sweets, Ph.D.”,…
Pride and Prejudice is a classic tale written by Jane Austen. It has been studied and written about and more recently it has been remixed into Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith. The story contains the same characters as the original and the same English town. But this time Elizabeth is well versed…
As I have learned more about my chosen field (Broadcasting) in my time here at Susquehanna I have had to consider semiotics in terms of multimedia projects for classes. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, and Kress adds that this theory also “…deals with meaning in all its appearances” (2). Semiotics plays an important…
As we discussed in class, and as many have come to realize, there is no one specific way to describe Digital Publishing. There is not one single term that describes digital publishing, the industry, or the producers of such, though Google still provides a definition that states “Digital publishing, also known as electronic publishing or e-publishing, is any…