WHAT IS A MEDIA PLATFORM AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MULTIMEDIA AND TRANSMEDIA? (In the Entertainment industry.)

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WHAT IS A MEDIA PLATFORM AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MULTIMEDIA AND TRANSMEDIA? (In the Entertainment industry.)

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What is a media platform and the difference between multimedia and transmedia?

What is a media platform?

A media platform is a service, site, or method that delivers media to an audience. Its functions are to deliver, but also sometimes to allow for feedback, discussion, or sharing. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, your local newspaper, network TV etc., are media platform outlets.

Types of social media platforms:

• Social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+)…
• Microblogging (Twitter, Tumblr)…
• Photo sharing (Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest)…
• Video sharing (YouTube, Facebook Live, Periscope, Vimeo)…

TRANSMEDIA AS A TERM

Transmedia: a narrative that extends beyond multiple media forms that also plays to the strength those forms; may or may not be interactive. Transmedia techniques are used in fields such as television, film, advertising, education, activism, editorials … and the platforms they use are as many as there are media: television, radio, internet, events in real life , apps, args among others.

The term media has traditionally been used as a label for mainstream news outlets. More recently, its use has been reclaimed from such negative and political connotation, now commonly used to refer to the variety of multimodal (and increasingly digital) communication forms.

Plural form of the singular medium, media are simply ways of communicating ideas: letters, novels, magazines, emails, paintings, videos, and countless other forms can be considered media. It can come in classic or modern forms, formal and informal, all boiling down to the basic human need to communicate.

Storytelling

Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.

DEFINITION OF MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia is a system of relaying information or entertainment that includes many different forms of communication. You might use multimedia to give a presentation at school.

Multimedia might include video, audio clips, and still photographs, for example. A newspaper's online presence could use multimedia as well, combining graphics, sound, and animation. The word itself, sometimes spelled with a hyphen as multi-media, has been used since 1962, from multi-, or "many," rooted in the Latin multus, "many or much;" and media, the plural form of medium, or "system of communication."

Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content. Multimedia contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.

Multimedia can be recorded and played, displayed, interacted with or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia devices are electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; for example, by including audio it has a broader scope. In the early years of multimedia the term "rich media" was synonymous with interactive multimedia, and "hypermedia" was an application of multimedia.       

Multimedia is heavily used in the entertainment industry, especially to develop special effects in movies and animations (VFX, 3D animation, etc.). Multimedia games are a popular pastime and are software programs available either as CD-ROMs or online. Some video games also use multimedia features. Multimedia applications that allow users to actively participate instead of just sitting by as passive recipients of information are called interactive multimedia. In the arts there are multimedia artists, whose minds are able to blend techniques using different media that in some way incorporates interaction with the viewer. One of the most relevant could be Peter Greenaway who is melding cinema with opera and all sorts of digital media. Another approach entails the creation of multimedia that can be displayed in a traditional fine arts arena, such as an art gallery. Although multimedia display material may be volatile, the survivability of the content is as strong as any traditional media. Digital recording material may be just as durable and infinitely reproducible with perfect copies every time.

Much of the work of an entertainment law practice is transaction based, i.e., drafting contracts, negotiation and mediation. Some situations may lead to litigation or arbitration.

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Transmedia vs Multimedia / Photo Credit: Prezi