Transmedia Storytelling on Travelogue “Ziarah Skateboarding”: Artistic Journal Across Multidiscipline Platform

Abstract

Ziarah Skateboarding is a series of documentation or travelogue that tell stories about a journey to visit street skateboard spots, skateparks, and skateboard events around the world. The content has been published through multiple different platforms. This practice-based research uses transmedia storytelling concept to present the diversity of the story, throughout free online blog articles, subscription-based articles, self-published book and series of short documentary. Each medium has its own characteristic and reach a number of different audiences. The research process involves literature review, design thinking, collaborative work with text editor, graphic designer, and video production team.  The results are very significant to understand the relation between transmedia storytelling and skateboarding related content.