The YouTube feature film experiment I wrote about last year is finally finished, in time for the intended premiere both at Sundance and on YouTube on January 27th. The experiment, which invited filmmakers to submit films shot on a single day – July 24, 2010 is coming to your laptop screen next week. According to [...]
The always dark and creepy world of Tim Burton is now on Twitter, in the form of a crowdsourced project. For fans of his 6-part micro-cartoon titled Stainboy, this will be a whole lot of fun. While Burton is not the first to crowdsource a story on Twitter, this controlled experiment will likely produce something [...]
Over the last few months, the YouTube-Guggenheim collaboration known as YouTube Play has been a recurring subject on this blog. Now the finalists have been announced and they will be shown in various Guggenheim locations around the world this weekend (Oct 22-24). After watching the final selections, I decided to post two of the most [...]
No one can argue that some of the most socially and even politically transformative ideas to come out of the technology boom of the last ten years were a) social media and b) the attendant proliferation of user generated content. There was MySpace, then YouTube, then Facebook, Twitter followed by every other niched and slightly [...]
One of the interesting results of the proliferation of web video has been that whatever special distinction independent filmmakers felt they had is kind of over. The truth is, right now, in January 2010 most of the visual storytelling–series, one-off videos and even features you’ll find on content sites (outside of the Netflix and Hulus [...]
As with most people who attended the enormously exciting Futures of Entertainment 4, I found there was a massive amount of information to unpack both during and after the conference. Perhaps because my perspective is that of a creator/artist who is navigating the rapidly shifting rules of storytelling in an era of transmedia, the questions [...]
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