Fantastically Independent

Abstract

The various transmedia projects I’ve so far discussed have been large-scale, corporate initiatives in some sense, or at least licensed works farmed out to much smaller companies by much larger organisations. In this penultimate chapter of Fantastic Transmedia, I explore a variety of transmedial works which fall wholly outside of the dominant, big-budget paradigm. Instead, I concentrate on contemporary and recent transmedia work which seeks to utilise digital media, sometimes in conjunction with older forms of communication, in the telling of fantastically themed crossmedia stories. As I’ll show, some of these projects fit the intracompositional model described by Dena and which I’ve yet to discuss in any depth, while others are more obviously intercompositional in their approach, once again spreading across multiple, discrete media platforms. In all cases, as I’ll demonstrate, memory is a dominant characteristic in the construction of fantastically themed, independent transmedia work.