Transmedial Storytelling
Since the beginning of human life people have told stories to each other. Nowadays, there are many different ways to express a story through distinct mediums. The phenomenon transmedial storytelling is quite though. A transmedial project is about telling a story through various mediums in a non-linear way.  The several mediums contribute to the story in their own specific course and therefore only tell a part of the story. This is why the participant cannot know the whole story by just participating in one of the mediums that are used. It needs the other expressions to fully comprehend the story. 
              This means that the "old" way of looking at a story is no longer suitable for transmedial projects because it was based on a single medium. The Matrix is an example of one of the first transmedial storytelling projects involving the mediums film, games and comic books (Rose, 43). The movies have been criticized since there were too many gaps in the story. And for similar reasons the games were slated as they were too dependent on the film content (Jenkins, 96). Hence, this new phenomenon of transmedial practices implies a new theory to analyze the phenomenon in a deeper sense. New tools are needed to deal with this transmedial way of storytelling.
 To address this problem media scholar Henry Jenkins has tried to define a course while concentrating on the aesthetic aspects of this phenomenon, rather than just on the economic aspects (Jenkins, 104). In contribution, Christy Dena has investigated the nature of transmedial projects in general to introduce a theory that focuses on the practice itself rather than on the end product (Dena, 2009). These efforts to create a new method are very useful to improve our understandings of transmedial storytelling. Because it is such a new phenomenon with very different outcomes it is difficult to grasp. Therefore, these are just the first steps. 



Rose, F. The Art of Immersion: How the digital generation is remarking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the way we tell stories (W.W. Norton & Company, New York and London 2011) p. 43
Jenkins, H. "Searching for the Origami Unicorn" in: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media collide (New York University Press, New York and London 2006) pp.93-140
Dena, C, Transmedia Practice: Theorising the Practice of Expressing a Fictional World across Distinct Media and Environments (Unpublished PhD dissertation, Sidney, Australia 2009) pp. 1-95