Storytelling Comes To Commercials – And Not Too Expensive!
The Summer Movie Season was nothing short of a disaster – a commercial disaster and a creative disaster. Earlier this year, Steven Spielberg predicted the collapse of the megabudget movie system. Bombs like The Lone Ranger or Pacific Rim...
Read moreStorytelling at The Guardian Media Academy
Fluffy lives again… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9MEAWi_NDU[/youtube] We are at The Guardian in London for The Guardian Media Academy 4-day training course. (www.guardianmediaacademy.com) There are people from Holland, France, England and Belgium, as well as from Lonely Planet. Our primary interest in this class,...
Read moreThe Agony and the Video
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12999733[/vimeo] Unwatchable… I have to admit I was initially intrigued by a video series about storytelling posted by Henry Jenkins. Kurt Reinhardt, who produced this series, apparently, has indeed gathered some really smart people to talk about Storytelling, among...
Read moreHow To ‘Write’ A Script without ‘Writing’
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13038638[/vimeo] Nothing is crazier, or more destructive, to the filmmaking and video process than the idea that you acquire in video, then translate that video to ‘text’ – log notes, transcripts, timecode notes, a written script, then you translate...
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