The base text will be a short story of mine that uses the frame of a present scene and, in between, explores the character’s backstory to inform the present moment. However, as a form, the short story limits me in how far I can go into the character’s backstory before readers get bored or give…
I am going to make basically a conspiracy theory. For a while now I have been looking to make a science fiction piece about the first robotic president that references heavily the important changes that have happened in the world. I then want to make a series of posts around the internet that lead a…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…