{"id":1881,"date":"2009-09-02T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:28:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:28:13","slug":"transmedia-extension-as-super-limited-collectors-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1881","title":{"rendered":"Transmedia extension as super-limited collector&#8217;s item?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-illustration\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5349688\/crack-open-9s-science-journal-and-learn-secrets-of-the-ragdolls-creation\/gallery\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/journal\/9_artbook.jpg\" alt=\"9 artbook\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The folks behind the upcoming animated movie <i>9<\/i> have created a &#8220;mad science journal&#8221; that could be seen a prequel-esque diegetic artifact, insofar as it includes &#8220;ink blots, sketches and doomsday prophesies&#8221; as well as a whole bunch of information as to how the ragdoll characters of the film came to exist.<br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5349688\/crack-open-9s-science-journal-and-learn-secrets-of-the-ragdolls-creation\/gallery\/\">the article on io9.com<\/a>, &#8220;Each book is encased in a uniquely numbered burlap bag, featuring a special forward by Ray Kurzweil, behind-the-scenes art, an extensive collection of stills from the film, commentary from director Shane Acker and producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, and a DVD of the original short film by Shane Acker which inspired the full-length feature.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe catch is that only 999 of these books were made, which strikes me as sort of a tragedy.  Such a project seems to be absolutely loaded with opportunities for additive comprehension, so ensuring that less than a thousand would-be fans have access to that enriched experience seems like a missed opportunity.  (As readers of my Master&#8217;s thesis, <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.mit.edu\/research\/theses\/GeoffreyLong2007.pdf\"><i>Transmedia Storytelling: Business, Aesthetics and Production at the Jim Henson Company<\/i><\/a> know, similar art books were released as transmedia extensions for both <i>Labyrinth<\/i> and <i>The Dark Crystal<\/i>.)  Still, in this day and age, I&#8217;d be utterly flabbergasted if some version of the same content didn&#8217;t appear either online or in the inevitable collector&#8217;s edition of the DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks behind the upcoming animated movie 9 have created a &#8220;mad science journal&#8221; that could be seen a prequel-esque diegetic artifact, insofar as it includes &#8220;ink blots, sketches and doomsday prophesies&#8221; as well as a whole bunch of information as to how the ragdoll characters of the film came to exist. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24,12,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-media","category-movies","category-transmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-ul","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}