David Hudson Editor, GreenCine Miles Beckett Producer, Lonelygirl15 Mesh Flinders Producer, Lonelygirl15 Greg Goodfried Producer, Lonelygirl15 Miles: a short format, about 5 videos a week. a popular serial drama. Greg: there’s the top level show; then there is the interactive element, teaching the characters as real people. you can send private messages and we answer […]
Lonelygirl15 – a review
Wired have a nice write-up about the team behind LonelyGirl15, looking at the background and possible future. The article mentions a few things that helped the success along, how they responded to the fans and how they managed the revelation that Bree was not ‘real’. they kept within legal bounds by not trying to sell […]
Virtual Worlds – Futures of Entertainment
Not the Real World Anymore Virtual spaces are more than sites for emulating the real world. They are becoming platforms for thought experiments — some of which involve fantasies we would not like to enact in the real world, others involve possibilities that we may want to test market before putting into practice. Much more […]
Fan Cultures – Futures of Entertainment
The first session today is on Fan Cultures. Once seen as marginal or niche consumers, Fan communities look more ‘mainstream’ than ever before. Some have argued that the practices of web 2.0 are really those of fan culture without the stigma. Courted, encouraged, engaged and acknowledged, fans are more and more frequently being recognized as […]
Opening Remarks – Futures of Entertainment
Josh Green gave the introduction speach this morning – Viscerality and Convergence.  A very image driven presentation so no live notes taken.   The key message is about the reactions to technology; how we bash hit and play technology until it makes our rules. Look at the reactions, in images, the doctoring of the advertising, that […]
Futures of Entertainment Day 2
Waiting for Day 2 of the conference to start, hopefully my arms will stand up to more typing today.  We only have 2 sessions, the first on Fan Cultures and the second on virtual spaces. The speaker list is over here and the conference blog is here.
Transmedia – Futures of Entertainment
Transmedia Properties  Paul Levitz, Michael Lebowitz, Alex Chisholm Moderator: Henry Jenkins What are the resistance points to transmedia?  Alex: transmedia is the intersection of TV and UGC.  It is the cost…the economics of creating things across the media is difficult.  It is very expensive given unions/guilds need to have a piece of the […]
Transmedia Properties part 1- Futures of Entertainment
Transmedia Properties  Paul Levitz, Michael Lebowitz, Alex Chisholm Moderator: Henry Jenkins What is transmedia? Paul: if transmedia was taking an idea and putting it across different channels – as an owner.  Aobut 1710, copyright emerged. Mary Midnight, Christopher Smart in 1749-1752, a book and stageplay. In US, J Fenimore Cooper, novel in 1821 and […]
UGC2 – Futures of Entertainment
Notes from lat 90mins Q: interested in the gameworld economics. Games were initially one track, single developers, now we keep expanding, now MMORG, more user generated.  Game developers are stepping back; where do you think the developers will end up? Will users have more control?   How do we move forward with game currency?  People do […]
Futures of Entertainment – User Generated Content
Notes….after first 45mins. User Generated Content Caterina Fake, Ji Lee, Rob Tercek, Kevin Barrett Caterina: we are coming back to a time when the producer and the consumer are one. People make their own content. The big bands are not a natural state of affairs…UGC is a return to this kind of activity. Rob: participatory […]
Futures of Entertainment – Television Futures
This is the first session from the Futures of Entertainment conference taking place at MIT this weekend. THis has been corrected for spelling not for sense. Television Futures Andy Hunter, Mark Warshaw, Josh Bernoff, Betsy Morgan Set the scene: Josh: speaking from a perspective of thinkers..people who have ideas about media. analysed this for 10 […]
7 days in a Nissan Sentra
Nissan have been runing some interesting commercials this week, to promote the new (I assume it is new) Nissan Sentra. Marc Horowitz has blogged his story – it was last week – and explains the rules. I must live 7 straight days out of my Sentra. I am free to come and go from the […]
CDX – a Roman game
Whilst in the UK, I ended up playing a BBC game based around their new series on Anccient Rome. The first episode is puzzle based, similar to a locked-room game – find the clues in the right order and work out what you need to do next. Extremly well shot and designed. If you’re in […]
Pirates and advertising
I went to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean film yesterday and really enjoyed it. It was fun, had me laughing a lot and was a perfect ‘lose yourself for a few hours’ film. It;s definitely not high ar The website has all the typical features of an entertainment property – starting with lots […]
Superman Returns
I went to see the new Superman Returns film late on Wednesday evening, at the insistence of a colleague who always goes to see new films on the opening weekend. He’d arranged tickets for the showing at an IMAX 3D showing. An hour before the showing we were lined up, pretty far back in the […]
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys Originally uploaded by foresmac. This seems to be the only photo that I can find on Flickr of this (completely different to the Interactive part, where there were photos everywhere). So thanks to Chris for putting it up.
The Church of Content
There’s a new religion, or at least a revamped version of an old one. Content and creative and art and music and all that stuff used to belong only to the individual or to the group. Then we got patronage and wealthy individuals could commission stuff, could pay to make things and see things and […]
Busk Marketing
Annie over on London Underground reports on the interface between corporates and self-impression. Underground buskers are being paid by companies to play music. The buskers are being paid a reported £40/day to play Johnny Cash songs, to support the release of the new movie Walk the Line and its associated release of albums. There appears […]
Christmas Blogs
BL Ochman has a round up of some relevant Santa blogs. And don’t forget the annual event of the NASA tracking webpage, which shows you exactly where Santa is at any time during his journey around the world. EDITED: I found the right page, whioch was not the one that sits on top of google!
It’s a wonderful internet
Wonderful little tale. What would you do without the internet. “When you hear a bell, a baby website gets its own URL”. Use technorati to watch this one spread rapidly.