transmedia storytelling

Ashley Woodbury (pictured on the Right) served as Co-Producer and Managing Editor of Student Productions on Restore/Restory: A People's History of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. Here, she shares some fundamental lessons she learned about the political and interpersonal power of digital media practice gleaned through her interactions with community members, media artists, and with the land itself while working on Restore/Restory.

I really appreciated Lina’s post dealing with definitions oftransmedia. I think she is quite right that her original definition still holds:

"Transmedia storytelling, a concept identified by Henry Jenkins, is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share assets and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media. Transmedia immerses an audience in a story’s universe through a number of dispersed entry points, providing a comprehensive and coordinated experience of a complex story."

The section of Robert's post entitled "Know your premise" is one I appreciated, and important for particular attention from nonprofits and grassroots filmmakers, and particularly for media creators using their narrative and content to lead to people to social action.  As Robert says, "if your story is to be coherent across multiple platforms then it’s important that each supports the same premise.

Both Lina and Nedra have touched on the transformative potential of transmedia storytelling. I’ve been thinking about all the different ways this transformation can take place.