Transmedia storytelling is the perfect opportunity for media production companies to create a franchise. The more the audience is familiar with a story, in a form of movies or TV shows, the more the audience wants to see the characters and the story again. Star Trek pushed the idea of a transmedia franchise pretty far: the Star Trek franchise has been building out the world of Star Trek across not only twelve feature films, but also a series of comics (first from the Marvel comic production, then by the DC comics company), an animated series, plenty of video games and novels and even a theme park attraction (which lasted until 2008). Each of these works adds something important to our appreciation of the whole: each has its clear aesthetic …show more content…
However, it is advised as many character coming from the show come back in the movies, the novels and the games. Film aesthetics assume that everything you need to know will be in the movie and that it will be reminded to the viewers several times. But in the Star Trek movies, it is important to know the TV show story because some characters from the show appear in the movies, yet their presence is not explained. The viewer, then, need to check the original narrative to find answers however, those information are not necessary to understand the movies. This makes for a more multilayered story. In an article for the MIT Technology Review, Henry Jenkins wrote that: “Each franchise entry needs to be self-contained enough to enable autonomous consumption. That is, you don’t need to have seen the film to enjoy the game and vice-versa.” For instance, it is important to know the original story to understand fully all the story of the movies, novels, etc. but it is not …show more content…
The transmedia of the first show was not official however plenty of books were written by the fan community to extend the universe of their favorite show. The first official use of a second medium comes from the Star Trek animated series. This series provides new adventures for the characters including one episode giving an extensive back story for one of the main characters. A few years later, Star Trek explored a new medium by making the first movie of the series. With the movie and the animated series, Star Trek officially becomes a transmedia franchise. The primary franchise of Star Trek stopped in 2005 with the end of the last Star Trek spin off series: Star Trek Enterprise. In 2009, the Star Trek franchise was reborn in true Hollywood fashion. The movies are no longer independent from each other but are interconnected because each movie follows the one before. The rebirth of the Star Trek franchise had a huge success as it played with the nostalgia by rewriting the one of the first Star Trek movies: Star Trek II- Wrath of Khan, in a new light creating a parallel universe to justify the remakes’ place in the Star Trek
Some of the situations may be familiar; we may be able to anticipate the ending. and the characters who should not really be different from everyday. people we meet). Having said this most people today like to see a new story, a new moral. This is a demand that every director tries to fulfilment.
To date, Warner Bro’s has over 6,500 feature films and around 3,000 television series that contains more than 10,000 episodes (“Company” par 5). Every great movie company has a background story to their success. What were then four brothers traveling with a movie projector turned into a successful movie company that has entertained crowds for generations (“Company” par 7). The vitaphone, the talkie, and the first four-legged movie star were introduced during the 1920’s, and helped define the Warner Brother company (Company par 6). Warner Brothers, a company created by four brothers during the 1920’s, revolutionized the film industry by modernizing the concept of cinematography (Company par 6).
Most people compared it to the british Twilight Zone but only Star Trek was the first science fiction series to have a steady cast. But once it was started multiple shows and movies formed. Babylon 5 was a 1990 television series that was at first denied but then was given the chance to air (Star Trek). After three script writers from Trek’s Original Series started writing for Babylon 5. After a lot of feuding between the fans, Roddenberry's widow Majel Barrett Roddenberry, and Star Trek actress decided to do a guest appearance on Babylon 5 to get the feuding to end (Star Trek).
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Tyrell, William Blake. "Star Trek as Myth and Television as Mythmaker." Journal of Popular Culture, 10 (Spring 1977), 711-719.
the first pilot of the franchise Star Trek was released, and with the premier of STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE in 1977, Geeks, nerds, and overall fanatics have had a debate ever since over which Sci-fi magnate made for the best cinematic entertainment. I would like to personally settle this argument with four main points in favor of the better movie franchise: STAR WARS. My four points are: 1. STAR WARS has better weapons, 2. STAR WARS has better villains, 3. STAR WARS has better music, and finally, 4. Star Trek is less of a motion picture ICON than STAR WARS.....
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“A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory” argues that the application of film and literary genre theory do not fully translate when analyzing television, because of “the specific industry and audience practices unique to television, or for the mixture of fictional and nonfictional programming that constitutes the lineup on nearly every TV channel. 2” The goal of media genre studies, Mittell asserts, is to understand how media is arranged within the contexts of production and reception, and how media work to create our vision of the world.
Instead of the franchises popularity having a positive impact, overtime, it infected the gaming market along with it’s consumers and developers such as Microsoft Game Studios and EA. It has become an aggrandized cancer on the face of video games everywhere, destroying franchises a...
In the video game Enter the Matrix, released in 2003, the players take on the role of supporting characters in the film sequel Matrix Reloaded. They play the side stories; those that not appear on screen in the film. The game is inspired by the world that is depicted in the film. Enter the Matrix displays distinct visual parallel between the film and the video game. The overlook of the film and video game is similar and distinguishable because the video game mimics the visual style of the film. It gets players satisfied with their purchase of the game. Playing the game is a different experience for the players because it connects them with the source material. It allows them to be part of the story and to feel to be the character of their franchise. Players are considered spectators too because there are some cinematic cut scenes that are shown in the game which makes them observe and do n...
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In the anime, Attack on Titan, the director is able to create and blend different master plots: vengeance by visual editing that places flashbacks at important moments inside the story and camera angles; hero’s quest by visual cuts and transitions from different character points of view; underdog by changing camera angles. Finally, but not least temptation through the use of sound editing with actions scenery and coloring. Narrative elements used by the director inside a film can change the master plot at any critical moment inside a story, elaborating a different story that can vary depending on our way of interpreting and analyzing the world around us. The director may have a general message that he wants to convey through narrative elements as it was previously stated, but we as the audience have the last word in what the film represents even though we obtain the main idea through the manipulation of the narrative elements used by the director.
Smith, Aaron. “Transmedia Storytelling in Television 2.0.Strategies for Developing Television Narratives Across Media Platforms” A discussable version of Aaron Smith’s thesis for Middlebury College. (2009) Web. 19 Mar. 2014.
In this analysis, the film Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) directed by Peter Jackson will be used as a case study to demonstrate these specific conventions. It was concluded that in Classical Hollywood Cinema the narrative followed a clear and discernable structure with a distinct beginning, middle and end. Although this type of narrative did have some restrictions, it still encompassed the psychology of characters and their objectives, and the inevitable conflict meant to hold the attention of the audience.... ... middle of paper ...
In the following text I am going to answer this questions focusing on television and movies in the near future.