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Just Think About This

Friday, July 2, 2010

“…the secret to the future of all Content and its value as an investment vehicle, lays in age old tradition of compelling storytelling.”
The above quote comes from Gerson Lehrman Group.  It is part of the summary of a much longer analysis; a rebuttal to an article by Ethan Smith in the Wall Street Journal about […]

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Deadwood, Digital and Interdependence

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Banff, Alberta.  The festival is gearing up around me, old friends reunite, little groups clustered around table talking intensely, pitches in the air, the ever presented Rockies in sharp relief against a blue blue sky.
Over breakfast I was reading an old New Yorker profile of David Milch by Mark Singer.  It was written in 2005 […]

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Experimenting with the Experimental Fund

Friday, April 23, 2010

These are exciting times.  There’s finally money around to invest in digital creations thanks to the IPF and the CMF’s new experimental fund.  I went to the CMF information session this morning at the Royal York and basically I liked what I heard.
These aren’t verbatim quotes, but what I heard was, there are some rules, […]

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The Ultimate Interactive Doc Collection

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

At docSHIFT last night, Mark Greenspan, the ubercool new media producer and the guy who puts together NextMEDIA, gave a presentation on interactive docs.
Here are links to docs he talked about so you can go play around with them.  If you know of any docs that are missing from this list, let me know please.
Branching […]

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docSHIFT Networking

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Who’s going to the docSHIFT networking night at the Gladstone Hotel on Monday night?
docSHIFT is a two year project run by DOC Toronto with funding from OMDC’s Creative Cluster Partnership Fund.
docSHIFT: Real Stories to Multiple Platforms will create new business opportunities by bringing Ontario documentary filmmakers together with new-media producers. It will facilitate new creative […]

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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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