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Applying to IPF’s Web Drama Series Pilot Program

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely. I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that would help it stand out from […]

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Distribution and Deity

Monday, March 8, 2010

Over at Advertising Age, Keith Richmond is writing about the importance of distribution in the next decade. His piece is called Is Content King? Then Distribution is Crown Prince, subtitled Great Content Does Not Mean It Will Find an Audience:
In the next decade, we will see significant changes to the way that content […]

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The Present of Storytelling

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Everything’s coming up digital, how about you?
It’s in the air. The producer’s association just devoted their conference to the “new media”. The Independent Production Fund is financing linear web video. The Canada Media Fund will be calling for a second platform for all the television series it finances and offering a second “experimental” stream for […]

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My Future of Storytelling

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Tomorrow I head to Ottawa to take part in the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association’s Prime Time Conference. I will be part of the panel scheduled for Friday morning 11am – 12:15 pm in the Confederation III room on the Future of Storytelling.
Now I have to think of something to say on the […]

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Crushing It: PreAmble

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Our tale is about to begin, but there’s still time for me to introduce you to our players. Meet Barbara (@barbology) and Laurence (@about2bhitched), a lovely couple. If you make friends with them, perhaps they’ll invite you to there nuptials. Yes, they’re engaged and the wedding is this Friday at 6 p.m.

Standing up with […]

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It’s Alive

Friday, January 29, 2010

What was that just moments ago on Twitter? Did one of the characters in Crushing It just respond to an @?
@youngneal’s feed has has a little activity over the last couple of days. Tonight, Ink Canada tweeted at him:

It wasn’t long before Neal responded.

If you want to follow Crushing It, then follow the Crushing It […]

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Social Media at Sundance

Friday, January 29, 2010

From All Things Digital:

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Comedy 2.0

Friday, January 29, 2010

Omri Marcus has quite a brilliant piece in the Huffington Post about comedy in the digital age:
Some things have not changed so far, so it’s safe to assume that they will remain unchanged. The laws of the classic joke, a setup that brings you into the world of the joke and preps you in a […]

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Shooting Crushing It

Thursday, January 28, 2010

We shot the posts for Barbara’s video log this evening. And the first is already up. The amazing fluidity of working in the digital space.
Last Sunday, at the Crushing It story meeting, we realized how hard it was proving to get to Barbara’s story — Barbara being the character I’m writing and who is known […]

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