Nice post from Scatter/Gather: a Razorfish blog on value of data viz for content strategy

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Excerpt:

"Let’s face it, content strategy traffics in spreadsheets. As we and our clients know, the rubber hits the road where the row meets the column. In our line of work, it just seems that the data points live for the familiar quadrants of the grid. But sometimes the traffic comes to a halt and a grid just won’t do. The music swells, the sentiment soars, and the data longs for a life outside the matrix. What does it want? — visualization."

read more: http://scattergather.razorfish.com/

Useful!: Writing For A Low Budget: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

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Notes from writer/director J. Blakeson:

Excerpt:

"When I wrote the script for “The Disappearance of Alice Creed”, I assumed that if I wanted to direct it myself, I would probably have to pay for it myself. So I knew I had to keep it small and contained. Even before I had a story, I had a set of rules…

Use 1 location for 90% of the film.
Only have 3 characters
Don’t write anything that I couldn’t achieve myself on my own money.
If you use a prop, keep using it over and over (because why source and pay for something that will be only screen for just under 2 seconds?)
Keep it simple. But make that “simple” as complex and difficult as possible.
But why these rules? Purely practical reasons: There are only three actors (and not, say, 4 actors) in my film because I happened to know 3 actors who might agree to be in the film. The reason I wrote most of the film’s action in an apartment is because I live in an apartment. So I had a free location. No expense. You get the idea…"

Read more & Part 2 on letsmakebetterfilms.com