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May

How to use Transmedia to create your own indie movie Franchise?

mipworld.com

May 31, 2012

For beActive Media’s Bernardo, transmedia can be a great way to build anticipation prior to a film’s launch

Trans­me­dia is a buzz­word that the film indus­try has used quite a lot in the last cou­ple of years, from inde­pen­dent…

28

May

Freedom is never free.

Thanks to all the veterans you have laid down their lives some we can live freely.

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May

A Peek Inside the Notebooks of Famous Authors, Artists and Visionaries
Emily Temple, flavorwire.com
It’s no secret that we at Fla­vor­pill are fas­ci­nat­ed by the mar­gin­a­lia of our favorite artists’ lives — we swoon over their doo­dles, dig through their sketch­books, and posthu­mous­ly ogle their beach pho­tos. Recent­ly, aided by one of ou…

A Peek Inside the Notebooks of Famous Authors, Artists and Visionaries
Emily Temple, flavorwire.com

It’s no secret that we at Fla­vor­pill are fas­ci­nat­ed by the mar­gin­a­lia of our favorite artists’ lives — we swoon over their doo­dles, dig through their sketch­books, and posthu­mous­ly ogle their beach pho­tos. Recent­ly, aided by one of ou…

26

May

Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”
Greg Rucka, io9.com
Greg Rucka has rocked the worlds of comics and nov­els for years, includ­ing mem­o­rable Bat­man writ­ing, plus the Queen and Coun­try series and the Atti­cus Kodi­ak books. But he might be best known for being a man who writes a lot of “strong…

Greg Rucka” “Why I Write “Strong Female Characters” http://t.co/mrPE48go

Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”
Greg Rucka, io9.com

Greg Rucka has rocked the worlds of comics and nov­els for years, includ­ing mem­o­rable Bat­man writ­ing, plus the Queen and Coun­try series and the Atti­cus Kodi­ak books. But he might be best known for being a man who writes a lot of “strong…

Greg Rucka” “Why I Write “Strong Female Characters” http://t.co/mrPE48go

‘The Avengers’: The First All-Star Movie By Design
Jeff Gomez, mashable.com
Jeff Gomez is CEO of Starlight Run­ner Enter­tain­ment, a New York based pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny that con­sults with Hol­ly­wood stu­dios on some of their most pop­u­lar enter­tain­ment fran­chis­es. Fol­low him @Jeff_Gomez.With some…

‘The Avengers’: The First All-Star Movie By Design
Jeff Gomez, mashable.com

Jeff Gomez is CEO of Starlight Run­ner Enter­tain­ment, a New York based pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny that con­sults with Hol­ly­wood stu­dios on some of their most pop­u­lar enter­tain­ment fran­chis­es. Fol­low him @Jeff_Gomez.

With some…

25

May

Hire for Passion, Not Just Talent - Management Tip of the Day - May 25, 2012 - Harvard Business Review

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People are more creative when they feel passionate about their work. Whether they are driven by interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, or a sense of personal challenge, they are more likely to take risks, look for multiple solutions to a problem, and…

23

May

Enjoy Your Comic Books With ComicBookLover
Simon Slangen, makeuseof.com
Comics are an often under-appreciated form of fic­tion. Some of the graph­ic nov­els I’ve read rank right up there with my favorite fan­ta­sy books. But this arti­cle is not meant to recruit new comic book lovers. Rather it’s to cater to my fel­lo…

Enjoy Your Comic Books With ComicBookLover
Simon Slangen, makeuseof.com

Comics are an often under-appreciated form of fic­tion. Some of the graph­ic nov­els I’ve read rank right up there with my favorite fan­ta­sy books. But this arti­cle is not meant to recruit new comic book lovers. Rather it’s to cater to my fel­lo…

20

May

The Avengers, Comic Books and the Future of Storytellingupenn.edu
This post is by Kendall White­house, Whar­ton’s direc­tor of new media.To no one’s sur­prise, the highest-grossing movie this week­end was Mar­vel Stu­dio’s The Avengers, which brought in more than $200 mil­lion in the U.S. The…

The Avengers, Comic Books and the Future of Storytelling
upenn.edu

This post is by Kendall White­house, Whar­ton’s direc­tor of new media.

To no one’s sur­prise, the highest-grossing movie this week­end was Mar­vel Stu­dio’s The Avengers, which brought in more than $200 mil­lion in the U.S. The…

Are You Too Comfortable?accidentalcreative.com
By Todd HenryWhat do you do mind­less­ly? Are there activ­i­ties or rou­tines that you jump into with­out think­ing?We are crea­tures of habit. It’s easy to grav­i­tate toward activ­i­ties and envi­ron­ments that rein­force our…

Are You Too Comfortable?
accidentalcreative.com

By Todd Henry

What do you do mind­less­ly? Are there activ­i­ties or rou­tines that you jump into with­out think­ing?

We are crea­tures of habit. It’s easy to grav­i­tate toward activ­i­ties and envi­ron­ments that rein­force our…

19

May

22 Executives Share The Best Advice They Ever Received
Aimee Groth and Kim Bhasin, businessinsider.com
StrategyInno­va­tion is a buzz­word busi­ness­peo­ple can’t live with­out, but over the years, its mean­ing has got­ten lost in the abyss of busi­ness jar­gon.We’ve com­piled 27 great quotes from some of the world’s most cre­ative minds — an…

22 Executives Share The Best Advice They Ever Received
Aimee Groth and Kim Bhasin, businessinsider.com

Strategy

Inno­va­tion is a buzz­word busi­ness­peo­ple can’t live with­out, but over the years, its mean­ing has got­ten lost in the abyss of busi­ness jar­gon.

We’ve com­piled 27 great quotes from some of the world’s most cre­ative minds — an…

18

May

Transmedia and the Audience
Simon Staffans, appmarket.tv
In a post in Feb­ru­ary I talked about what I saw as the ”Five pil­lars of trans­me­dia”, the dif­fer­ent types of peo­ple that need to work togeth­er to suc­cess­ful­ly devel­op, pro­duce and launch a trans­me­dia project. There was a sixth pil­l…

Transmedia and the Audience http://flpbd.it/BBi0g via @simonstaffans:

Transmedia and the Audience
Simon Staffans, appmarket.tv

In a post in Feb­ru­ary I talked about what I saw as the ”Five pil­lars of trans­me­dia”, the dif­fer­ent types of peo­ple that need to work togeth­er to suc­cess­ful­ly devel­op, pro­duce and launch a trans­me­dia project. There was a sixth pil­l…

Transmedia and the Audience http://flpbd.it/BBi0g via @simonstaffans:

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May

Can a Video Game Change Your Life?

Megan Erickson on May 17, 2012, 12:00 AM, bigthink.com

What’s the Big Idea?

Up up down down left right left right B A start. Press these but­tons in suc­ces­sion while play­ing any one of the more than 60 video games which rec­og­nize it and heav­en­ly rewards will rain down upon you,…

The Scriptshadow Writer Scale

blogspot.com

LEVEL 10!!!

Back when I taught ten­nis, there was some­thing called a NTRP Rat­ing. To this day I have no idea what NTRP stands for, but its pur­pose was legit­i­mate. It ranked play­ers on a 7 point scale. So a play­er with a solid…

Really interesting rating system for screenwriters. What level are you?

Original Ideas: The Last Step In The Creative Process

Sam McNerney on May 11, 2012, 3:50 PM, bigthink.com

Shake­speare was a ruth­less thief. Some of his first plays – the three parts of Henry VI – were so sim­i­lar to Christo­pher Mar­lowe’s Tam­burlaine the Great that­many eighteenth-century schol­ars believed Mar­lowe wrote them. By today’s…

Why Top Innovators Make Time to Waste Time

Jason Gots on May 15, 2012, 12:00 AM, bigthink.com

What’s the Big Idea?

The aver­age con­sumer as­so­ciates 3M with tape – a prod­uct so inte­gral to our daily lives that we bare­ly notice it any­more. But in 1925, as an alter­na­tive to the unwieldy, glue-covered sheets of paper it made…