Transmedia: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
If you haven't started watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries , go now. You want to be a part of this. Pride and Prejudice is literally happening in my news feed, and all over the rest of the web, right now . Lizzie Bennet, aka Elizabeth Bennet, main character of the story, has a vlog--a video blog--and posts updates about her life twice a week. I'm pretty sure this method of storytelling has never been done before; at least, certainly not to this extent. You can follow Lizzie and most of the other characters on YouTube , Facebook , Twitter , Tumblr , and more: Gigi Darcy has a ThisIsMyJam account (sign up, btw, it looks cool), and Jane Bennet has a Pinterest and a Lookbook . Several independent websites related to the story have sprung up as well; for example, Darcy's company Pemberley Digital has its own website. I won't link to the travesty of a website George Wickham just created yesterday. Ugh. The characters post in character on all these sites. Fans can chat ...