Week 8

Ideas for what to remix for creative media text (How I Met Your Mother):

• Diversity - The setting of How I Met Your Mother, New York City, is a very diverse city even at the time of the show's debut. In 2005, the year of the show's debut, white non-hispanic citizens made up around 35% of the population. Source: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/acs/acs_demo_05.pdf

Transmedia - storytelling that employs a variety of elements that can be experienced in a variety of forms and contexts.

Four points of transmedia:

• Theme (provides a cohesive element that ties various media components together)

• Narrative thread (foundation for storytelling and provides the overarching structure to the transmedia project, and allows you to expand to different mediums and, in turn, expand on immersion).

• Media implementation (which mode/format/medium you're using and think is best for your text)

• Audience drives (what motivates the audience to engage with the overall text, as well as the different media components). Four things to consider for an audience:

  • Reveal (new information)

  • Relive (allowing the viewer to relive the text in a different format)

  • Mould (the audience [INSERT REST FROM VIDEO]

  • Inhabit (how your audience is immersed in your text)