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Desdemona Bandini: "Not just a new film, “The Cosmonaut” is a labor of love four years in the making, crowdsourced and created with a plan to test the boundaries of transmedia content distribution worldwide."
Steve Ramos: '"Fitzgerald Family Christmas" director Ed Burns has carved a path as an indie pioneer and a self-taught VOD success story' ...
Based on her presentation at the Big Screen Symposium, Anna Jackson explores what the Transmedia concept of ‘Doing It With Others’ has to offer filmmakers.
"Orly Ravid, founder and co-executive director of The Film Collaborative, shares ten tips that all filmmakers should know about the tricky world of digital distribution."
Orly Ravid: "In today’s digital distribution market, which ranges from VOD to iTunes and other smaller online outlets, the numbers are hard to find or verify."
Christine Weitbrecht: "[...] for the first time in history, entertainment producers have a truly global audience, the mechanisms to reach them, and the methods to charge them."
Television production studio executives long have been wary of Hulu and other forms of Internet distribution, fearing they would lead to increased piracy and destroy lucrative secondary markets, including syndication and DVD sales. But video streaming services offered by Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.com are becoming an unexpected boon to the TV syndication market.
US online distributors look to copy success of BBC iPlayer as 'boxset' culture grows among viewers...
Hopes are high, but will the video anywhere platform be enough to shore up the sputtering DVD market?
Three industry executives show how promoting and monetizing content ownership is key to the industry's future -- and explain UltraViolet...
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Frank Rose: '"If it doesn't spread, it's dead": With this pithy dictum, Henry Jenkins summed up the nature of media distribution in the Internet age.'
Amanda Holpuch: "Amid the glamorous sea-foam dresses and contentious network rivalries of the Primetime Emmy awards, a case for independent distribution was made when Louis CK accepted an award for his standup special that earned $1m before it aired on primetime" ...
Joe Bailey, Jr. sizes up independent theatrical distribution and the arrival of Tugg via a case study of “Incendiary: The Willingham Case,” the award-winning documentary he co-directed with Steve Mims.
Morgan Spurlock: "[...] the idea that we are not only filmmakers but also film marketers, and an understanding of alternative distribution outlets, namely Internet or VOD partners that a few years ago had the same air of failure and backtracking that television once did."
Amanda Lin Costa: "Traditionally, there were three main types of distribution for the work of independent filmmakers: theatrical, broadcast and straight to DVD. Most filmmakers hoped for a combination of all three.
But everything has changed. The digital online world has opened up new avenues of distribution including video on demand, live streaming, and mobile and tablet applications"...
[…] here's seven key practices producers must embrace to succeed in the post-distributor marketplace.
The media world is changing, due to new devices from which viewers can access content and the ease of finding content on-demand.
While you were busy last week debating Walt’s moral break on Breaking Bad, or preparing for the return of The Walking Dead, Hollywood was ushering in the beginning of a brave new era.
Even though "transmedia" projects are immersed in technologies (film, video, television, online video, games, live events, mobile media, telephone calls… you name it), its leading practitioners (and theoreticians) often insist that "it's all about story."
Others have detailed the lunacy behind the launch of Netflix’s instantly ill-fated Qwikster brand (and there’s a lot of crazy there: Did they even consider the Twitter factor? Is there anything more indicative that you just don’t care?).
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