“Life In A Day” Is a Shallow YouTube Branding Campaign

storytelling 28 January 2011 | 1 Comment

In tracking the trajectory of the Life In A Day project – the well publicized collaboration between YouTube and Ridley Scott’s company, I have asked some provocative questions and made some educated guesses on how it would turn out.  So, to the question we all ask when we watch a film –What is it ABOUT?–I [...]

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Is It Time to Re-define Independent Film?

Old School Film in The New World 7 January 2010 | 0 Comments

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 [...]

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