CTS_session 2_Transmedia Storytelling_13.10.15 (Notes)

Henry Jenkins  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFCLKa0XRlw

“We through ideas into the world and they come back to us more developed” (Henry Jenkins)

Participatory Culture using network to create movements and change the network/world

  • using # to promote politicians
  • Twitter used to retweet tweets and spread news and info
  • icebucket challenge
  • gamergate in 60 sec

We are using technology in the way we need to use it.

  • Simpson & Family Guy distribute politician thinking

James-Gillray-cartoon-001.jpg

  •  (look at magazine БИЗНЕС)

 

online gathering can harm people

Steven Haller (Cameron pig)

Transmedia Storytelling ( H. Jenkins website)

it is about creating a world which we would explore (explore the world through different media)

[extractability] Coca-Cola – e-sports

Matrix game 

you create the world which you can manoeuvre.

a lot of fan fictions (written by fans)

Process of world building

Transmedia storytelling – world appears on different media platforms (toys; games; cosplays; videos; graphic novels)

  • variety of platforms
  • variety of audience

Hit Records

change the point of the story (e.g

Elements of Transmedia Storytelling:

  • ‘drillability’
  • continuity vs multiplicity
  • immersion vs extractability
  • world building
  • seriality
  • subjectivity
  • performance

The Hunt for Gollum (2009)

maxresdefault.jpg

 

http://www.peterrabbit.com/en/emmathompson

Italian comics Dillan Dog (illustrated by different artists)

Dylan Dog -  Dawn of the Dead 1 - Page 1.jpg

 

Superheroes are in our world, trying to solve our problems.

  • rich stories
  • open environments
  • open ended mission to create evil rather then closed quests
  • multiple creators make characters transferrable

Leave a comment