1. See Convergence Culture
The Matrix
by Henry Jenkins
Transmedia Storytelling & Convergence

2. Bruce Sterling- Matrix Appeal
• Pop appeal
• Suicidal attacks
• Martial arts
• Pre-destined Love
• Fetish
• Christian Exegesis/Buddhism/Taoism/Nebuchadnezzar
• Redeemer Myth
• Death & Rebirth
• The Odyssey
• Baudrillard/Kant/Nietsche/Berkeley
• Sci-fi (Philip K. Dick)
• Godelian mathematical metaphysics

3. Searching for the Origami Unicorn
(by Henry Jenkins)
• ‘Through the looking glass’
• The White Rabbit
• The Red Queen
• Morpheus
• Persephone
• Trinity
• ‘Simulacra & Simulation’ (Neo’s book)
• DA203 & IS5416
• Neo’s apartment- Room 101

4. Synergistic Storytelling
Animatrix- Final Flight of the Osiris
Jue drops letter into mailbox
(Gives her life getting letter to
Enter the Nebuchadnezzar crew The Matrix
Matrix- Player Reloaded-
must get letter The crew are
into hands of discussing the
the crew. last transmission
of the Osiris.

5. Enter the Matrix- Trailer

6. Audience- Transmedia Experience
Active Engagement with
at least 3 different media.You as the
audience may have delivered the letter yourself
and traced the trajectory of this one narrative
stand across 3 different media.

7. Counterclaims...
• Can audience be
bothered?
• What about those who
haven’t...how do you
understand the
narrative?
• Is it just a marketing ploy
to make the consumer
spend more money?

8. Alpha- Mapping
The cast of The Matrix
trilogy never new if they
were being filmed for the
film or the game.

9. Woo-Ping Yuen- Geof Darrow-
Choreographer Conceptual Drawings
Paul
Chadwick-
Matrix Comics
Collaborative Authorship
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
The Wachowski
Bros.

10. Rebooting Audience Theory- Janet
Murray
• Consumer 1- ‘The actively engaged real-
time viewer who look for suspense and
action in satisfaction in each single episode.’
• Consumer 2- ‘The more reflective, long-
term audience who look for coherent
patterns in the story as a whole.’
• Consumer 3- ‘The navigational viewer who
takes pleasure in following the connections
between different parts of the story.’

11. Oracle
Archetypes- Easier for Film/Game
Crossover
The Hacker

12. Niobe begins to displace Morpheus halfway through The Matrix
Revolutions. To the film audience this is unexplained but to the gaming
audience and having spent 100hrs + playing the character, this is
understandable
May 26th, 2005- The Matrix Online
Morpheus killed...
Additive Comprehension
(Neil Young)
defn: expansion of interpretive possibilities in fictional franchises
extended across multiple texts and media