I swear, when this beast is finished and handed in, I’m going to take a week and do nothing but sleep, read comics, watch movies and play video games. Trying to condense two years’ worth of thinking about All Things Transmedia into one solid document is threatening to make my head explode. Current THESIS score: […]
The funny thing about being me is that there are things about yours truly that, to anyone else, are patently obvious. From inside this great melon of a head, though, “patently obvious” doesn’t even come near it. The biggest of these things is the way my brain works. Or, occasionally, doesn’t. See, the upside of […]
CMS needs a Ph.D program. Current THESIS score: 17,897 and rising like a rocket, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of what I want/need to say, much less firmly grounded it in the sociohistorical context of academic media theory. Fark.
I’m beginning to think that the title of my THESIS, Transmedia Storytelling: Business, Aesthetics and Production at the Jim Henson Company, might be something of a misnomer. True, the entire middle third of the paper is dedicated to Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal and all their respective transmedia extensions, but the paper’s index will also […]
Feeling better about the THESIS – it’s remarkable what a good night’s sleep will do for one’s state of mind. I woke up early this morning and went back at it, and now some clarity is beginning to emerge. I’m chopping out a lot more of my existing work than I’d hoped, but again, leaner […]
It’s official. My THESIS is kicking my ass. I’ve been writing the THESIS in bits and bursts all semester, if not all year. As a result, I have multiple documents that are each somewhere between 2000 and 9500 words. I thought that at this stage, it would be fairly simple to stitch all these together. […]
The crazy thing isn’t that I’m presenting on “Transmedia Storytelling, Niche Media, and the Jim Henson Company” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference on Sunday. The crazy thing is that I have so bloody much to say about it. Negative capability is often a key tactic when it comes to transmedia storytelling, […]
February 5, 2007
12:52 pm
Last week I got a scare that The Power of the Dark Crystal, the sequel to Henson’s The Dark Crystal that Genndy “Samurai Jack” Tartakovsky has been prepping for two years, had been axed. Now this morning’s jog around the Internet reveals news from the Muppet Central Forum that the hiatus was just a rumor. […]
According to boxofficemojo.com, Guillermo del Toro’s critically-lauded film Pan’s Labyrinth was produced on a budget of $19M and has, so far, taken in a domestic total of $19,188,000 and a foreign total of $25,941,961. This means that the film has a worldwide total so far of $45,129,961 for a profit of $26,129,961 (I think). In […]
February 3, 2007
12:21 pm
The followup to my previous post is sort of thesis-related (excuse me, THESIS related) so I thought I’d scribble my thoughts down here. The main direction of my thinking here is simply, “What does it mean to succeed in media?” We’ve heard a lot about Chris Anderson’s Long Tail theory, which suggests, at heart, that […]
