Transmedia

"It's flat-out impossible to nail down a single definition that everyone can happily agree on." Basically, this chapter does the best it can to describe what transmedia is, but the reality is that there isn't one true definition that everyone can stick to. However, that is exactly what makes transmedia what it is. People seem to be obsessed with the fact that everything needs to be defined and therefore it is restricted to being only within those parameters. But transmedia can take on variety in scale, media, storytelling style and more. So transmedia holds this broad definition because the possibilities are essentially endless.
As I mentioned, these stories that are told across platforms take on many different forms in terms of scale, media and storytelling style. For example, the scale of a transmedia told in the West Coast (Hollywood) is much larger than one made in the East Coast. An example of a West Coast transmedia would be Star Wars, but the East Coast produces for a much smaller audience. They also take on different forms of media. The West Coast tends to have transmedia stories through movies, websites, books, and much more, but the East Coast tends to use web and social media. There are also a couple different ways to format your story. One way of doing it would be to take one story and spread it across multiple media, or you could start with an initial story and keep adding to it. Overall, transmedia is a very creative and thoughtful process that can really lead to powerful storytelling.  
 

Vimeo

When comparing Vimeo with YouTube, it is clear that they target and attract different audiences, and therefore have slightly different uses. While they are both video sharing websites, it is clear that the atmosphere on Vimeo is more sophisticated than that of YouTube. After making a Vimeo account, the screen read - "Discover amazing HD videos and share your own." This immediately sets up the mood of the site, while YouTube is seen more as a place to post any video no matter what aesthetic quality it has.

One way of looking at it is, YouTube is a place for everyone including filmmakers, but Vimeo is where filmmakers post their videos to be seen and commented on by other filmmakers rather than just everyone. The audience on Vimeo are others who post videos of similar quality and significance, so the comments and community that is created is constructive and mature. I'm not sure if the comments are regulated by Vimeo to create this atmosphere or if it is just created by it's users, but it is nice that Vimeo has created this space for filmmakers to have this community. 

Something else I found fascinating about Vimeo that is in-line with the filmmaker community is that once you upload a video, you can replace it with an updated version without losing stats from the video. There have been times when I've uploaded a video to YouTube and have had views on it, but realize that I need to make a slight change. I would love to just be able to replace the original video rather than start from scratch. Overall, after looking more into Vimeo I can see myself uploading some of my videos there in the future.