The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: A New World Of Story Telling

July 4, 2012 in Books, Film & TV, Technology

There is a show I watch more religiously than any reality show on free-to-air TV, but unless you regularly watch YouTube you probably won’t have heard of it. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries are a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, set now, and updated twice a week. The show is not only very well done, but presented in the style of a Video Blog by Lizzie, a media studies student, and extends beyond the borders of YouTube  into the interactive worlds of Twitter and Tumblr, making the story well and truly set in the now. This trans-media storytelling [...]