“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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Crowdsourced Feature “Life In A Day” to Premiere

storytelling 21 January 2011 | 0 Comments

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 [...]

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Crowdsourcing For Auteurs: The Purefold Irony

Convergences Worth Noting 27 November 2009 | 1 Comment

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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