This is the topic that I keep coming back to. And the question that I keep coming back to. Transmedia, that is. And the question of just how many people define it in as many ways.
In my daily feed, I saw that there’s a new blog titled “Today’s Transmedia Women.” My first thought was: “groovy! Transmedia as applied to women’s issues around the world? How do I get in on that action?”
And then, I actually looked at the blog.
Sad panda…
It’s not so much what I just described. Well, it is a blog, and it does deal with women’s issues. Kind of. And it deals with transmedia. Kind of. But it does neither very well, and it certainly doesn’t combine the two topics in any real or relevant way–the posts could easily be parsed into two completely separate blogs. This blog might know what transmedia is, but they’re not even pretending to use it for any purpose.
So, to bring us back to the world where we actually want to use transmedia storytelling (namely, an indie-film setting), I have a graphic from the really rockin’ Steve Peters to help us discern when transmedia is, well, not. I think this one is my favorite so far…
It’s just a crummy entertainment franchise. Hi-larious!