May 2012
43 posts
How to use Transmedia to create your own indie... →
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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…
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Hire for Passion, Not Just Talent - Management Tip... →
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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…
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 →
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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... →
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…
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5 Cool Movie Moms
In honor of Mother’s Day, we thought I’d give homage to five cool movie moms.
5) Edwina “Ed” McDunnough - Raising Arizona In this role, Holly Hunter maybe the toughest mom of all. When she can’t have kids, what does she do? She steals one from a family that “gots more than they can handle.” That obviously is wrong per se, but when it comes time to defend the stolen kid from a crazy bounty hunter,...
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Creativity shouldn’t be…thought of as a process reserved for artists. The...
– Jonah Lehrer on how creativity really works.
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22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don’t Know
Via Mental Floss
You know the characters, but you might not know their full names. Store these away for future trivia nights.
Did you know the Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons has a name? It’s Jeff Albertson. But that wasn’t the decision of creator Matt Groening. “I was out of the room when [the writers] named him,” he told MTV in 2007. “In my mind, ‘Louis Lane’ was his name, and he was obsessed...
Want a Team to be Creative? Make it Diverse →
Beth Comstock, hbr.org
Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. This is the…
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#Random #Screenwriting Tip
Describe and render your setting through the eyes of your protagonist. The same town can either feel vibrant and alive or desperate and lonely, depending on the state of mind of your protagonist.
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The Truth Behind #Transmedia →
Industry analyst Michael Gubbins explores the recent cross-media explosion, and contemplates what the future could—and should—hold for transmedia projects.
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Why Are Humans So Drawn to Stories? →
David Berreby on May 9, 2012, 4:08 PM, bigthink.com
Literary types used to run the world. To understand life and society, people counted on great orators and poets and interpreters of sacred texts. Political, moral and literary power were the same: Apt analogies and convincing metaph…
How Video Games Help Doctors Diagnose Disease →
Orion Jones on May 5, 2012, 8:35 AM, bigthink.com
What’s the Latest Development? A video game developed at UCLA allows non-professional volunteers to accurately diagnose the presence of malaria in patients’ red blood cells, aiding medical professionals in this time…
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Which Productivity Type Are You? →
Good post by Todd Henry at the Accidental Creative.
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Stop Blabbing About Innovation And Start Actually... →
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Just because you’re good at something, doesn’t mean you should spend...
– #Monday Morning Pick Me Up
Jonah Lehrer on The Creative Insight of The... →
Jason Gots on May 6, 2012, 12:00 AM, bigthink.com
The most creative solutions to difficult problems often seem to come out of nowhere. The mysterious nature of the “sudden flash of insight” has given rise to the myth of inspiration – the idea that brilliant ideas are visited upon us…
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#Random Fact Friday
Although Charles Schulz loved drawing Charlie Brown and his pals, he hated the name Peanuts, which was chosen by United Features Syndicate despite his objections.
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From Gilgamesh to... →
A gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators.
Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we’re treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race’s greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey (in watercolors by Gareth...
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Children's Literature Has Exploded →
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#Transmedia Interest: Looking at the Future of... →
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