Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales http://1001tales.posterous.com tracing the roots & tendrils of storytelling today posterous.com Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:47:44 -0700 Future of Film | Filmmaking With a Participatory Audience http://1001tales.posterous.com/future-of-film-filmmaking-with-a-participator http://1001tales.posterous.com/future-of-film-filmmaking-with-a-participator

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"Actress Q’orianka Kilcher and writer/director Leone Marucci sat down to discuss the efforts they’ve made to develop an early and active fan base for their upcoming film, The Power of Few, and why engaging a participatory audience is an increasingly important element of the filmmaking process for the industry to consider. Here's what they had to say.

What made you decide to engage the online audience in the filmmaking process?

Q’orianka Kilcher: Back in 2006, when Leone Marucci and I first started brainstorming about the possibilities of making of The Power Of Few, we discovered a shared desire to break down some of the barriers of conventional filmmaking. We decided on an interactive and collaborative approach by inviting our fans and audiences worldwide to get directly involved in the artistic process of filmmaking.

Leone Marucci: The Power Of Few is a multi-perspective story that explores the varying influences on a single event, so inviting the world to join in with their own perspective came as a natural extension of the central theme. We took a no restrictions approach and discovered endless possibilities for fan involvement. ..."

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Wed, 04 May 2011 14:17:00 -0700 TFI :: Getting Your Marketing Hands Dirty http://1001tales.posterous.com/tfi-getting-your-marketing-hands-dirty http://1001tales.posterous.com/tfi-getting-your-marketing-hands-dirty

From the Tribeca site:

"Getting Your Marketing Hands Dirty

Building awareness is an essential aspect of any traditional or cross-platform project. In the article below, cross-posted from the Tribeca Film Festival's Future of Film Blog, Chris Thilk shares some thoughts on marketing.

If you follow to any extent the happenings out of Silicon Valley you'll see that the founders, investors and other key players in any number of start-ups are always hustling. They're on Twitter and Facebook talking the site/service/app/tool up, investing time in pitching influential media outlets and hitting as many parties and other events trying to make sure everyone knows what they're doing. They're doing so with a handful of potential outcomes in mind: They might be looking to make money through either selling paid versions or through ad sales. They might be hoping to attract a critical mass of users in the hopes of being acquired by a bigger existing company. Or they could genuinely think they have a great idea and just want as many people as possible to know about it.

This contrasts to a great extent with something I've heard more than once from independent filmmakers, which is that they're much too busy to be personally involved in the marketing of the movie they're planning, shooting or have already completed. There's no problem with attending festivals, of course, but writing a blog or something like that apparently will require more time than they have and is akin to asking them to dilute their art with tacky marketing. I'm generalizing of course but I've come across this sentiment enough times to worry that it's fairly widespread...."

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Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:53:17 -0700 Wow! Tribeca Film Festival makes Video Game from Rockstar 'L.A. Noire's' an Official Selection - The Hollywood Reporter http://1001tales.posterous.com/wow-tribeca-film-festival-makes-video-game-fr http://1001tales.posterous.com/wow-tribeca-film-festival-makes-video-game-fr
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Houser also discusses the convergence of Hollywood and video games, and why we haven’t seen a "Grand Theft Auto" movie yet.

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival has broken with tradition and included the first video game to be honored as an Official Selection. Game publisher Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire, which was developed by Team Bondi, allows players to enter the violent world of 1947 Los Angeles as an LAPD detective fighting against the criminal underbelly that ruled the streets during Hollywood’s Golden Age.... "

From the interview with Dan Houser cont.

"...Another hot topic these days is transmedia -- what are your thoughts on the role video games play today in launching new properties that span all sorts of entertainment?

No one has done it very successfully yet. Virtually all movies made from games are awful, while many games made from movies are also pretty horrible. This will change, but with an ever more discerning audience, the goals of taking something from film-to-games or game-to-film have to be more than financial. If you feel the property has something about it that is universal or could work in another medium, and it is not simply about making easy money, then that is something worthwhile. Too often, however, the aim appears to be to cash-in on the success of a particular game, book, pop singer, website, etc., and that usually produces mediocre results.

Why haven’t we seen a movie based on any of Rockstar Games’ blockbuster franchises?

We have explored a lot of movie deals, but we have just chosen not to make a movie. We love movies, but we also love games and that is what we remain focused on. If we were to attempt to make a movie, we would like to make it ourselves, or at least work in collaboration with the best talent, so at least if it is bad, we can know we failed on our own terms. But doing that takes time, and making games properly takes a lot of time. So, we may make movies one day, with the right property and the right partnership, but we have not found the time to do that yet.

Would something like LA Noire work on the big screen today?

Well, we spent a long time being told Westerns were dead, then we made Red Dead Redemption, which along with True Grit showed that well-made classic Westerns have life left in them in any medium. The same could be said of classic Noir - a great film could be successful now, just as Chinatown and LA Confidential were long after the 1940s."

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