Check out my series in Filmmaker Magazine about Immersive Storytelling. Over 4 articles, I give an in depth analysis of the thought processes involved in The Lost Children NYC premier at Convergence: Film Society of Lincoln Center: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
The last weekend in April, I was asked to be a Technology Mentor and judge at the first StoryCode StoryHack. StoryHack was a hack-a-thon for storytelling. Usually, hack-a-thons are sessions in which software developers attempt to create products in a short, focused amount of time. A weekend, say. They are often fueled by a lot of bad [...]
Just had my feature in post, THE LOST CHILDREN go through the IFP Narrative Lab here in NYC. It’s an honor to have been invited, and an insanely intense week of learning and work on the film. This is a repost of my thoughts on the lab from Filmmaker Magazine. Imagine you’re a boxer just starting [...]
I gave a talk with Lance Weiler at the meet-up, about Lance’s Pandemic 1.0 project at Sundance. Here’s a video. Scroll to about 29min. There is a great presentation about a Transmedia Theater project, then us. Watch live streaming video from transmedianewyorkcity at livestream.com
Here’s me discussing THE LOST CHILDREN in some detail at the Workbook’s Transmedia Talk podcast. I talk about how the project came about, why I switched it from a standard film to a cross platform project, and how I see cross-platform projects evolving in general. I also talk a little more about that in a [...]
I’d been asked to give a workshop at the 2011 DIYDays on working with a technologist in a Transmedia project. The workshop was not taped, so I’m re-inventing it here as a blog post. I didn’t know exactly what I should convey in a “workshop.” The guy who went before me, Brian Chirls, did some [...]
Lance Weiler‘s Pandemic 1.0 was an immersive experience at the Sundance 2011 Film Festival, involving mobile phones, a real world scavenger hunt for storyworld objects, NFC, Stickybits, Twitter, Gowalla, Facebook, and viral videos created by Sabi Films. I wrote the Mission Control software that ties all of this together. Mission Control uses various interactions from the [...]
Originally posted at NEW BREED. THE LOST CHILDREN is a fiction film, but being shot as if a documentary. This isn’t anything new these days. From the beautiful work of Guest and Co, to the inescapable Blair Witch, to the TV show The Office, this has become a pretty accepted dramatic format. So I wasn’t [...]
