Month: June 2007

Writer Blogs

Christy

Colin Brush, Senior Copywriter ot Penguin UK has posted about some writer blogs he likes. Among a couple others he cites Neil Gaimon’s blog:

Gaiman has been blogging since 2001, when his publisher set up a blog to promote his American Gods book tour. The tour finished, but the blog rolls on and he now has over a million monthly visitors.

Check it out: http://thepenguinblog.typepad.com/the_penguin_blog/2007/06/what_makes_a_go.html

Angels & Monsters

Christy

ANGELS 

Not too long ago I posted about the Swarm of Angels project:

A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members. By subscribing for £25 members become part of a revolutionary process to make an open source feature film.

Well, they’re measuring their progress with tasks completed and members gained. The second phase, early development, has just completed. In this phase:

Members of the First 1000 (all qualify who’ve joined before this deadline) will then be able to introduce members by limited invite-only until we open to the public later in Phase 3.

They’ve also released a trailer.

MONSTERS

News from the workbook project is that a couple of filmmakers — Arin Crumley and Susan Buice – have an unusual system too. They’ve made a feature film ,called Four Eyed Monsters, from credit card finance. That isn’t new. What is new is:

  • They’ve put their feature film online on YouTube to view for free for 1 week:
  • Spout, a movie community site, will give Arin & Susan 1 dollar for everyone who joins spout (which is free): http://spout.com/foureyedmonsters
  • You can buy the DVDs and super high quality downloads at: http://foureyedmonsters.com/store (I like their bundling)

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Check out: http://www.aswarmofangels.com

Check out: http://www.foureyedmonsters.com

Filmmakers that Think Outside the Film

Christy

Lance Weiler — an acclaimed director films such as Head Trauma (that I posted about here) and The Last Broadcast — asked me to write an article about films and cross-media for the Workbook Project (a free resource for content creators). Of course I agreed to! So, I wrote a long article about the some of nifty things filmmakers are doing with content across mediums. I include websites, graphic novels, remixes, blogs, books, ARGs and so on. It is called ‘Filmmakers that Think Outside the Film’. Actually, I’m thinking it would be good to do a series: TV Makers that Think Outside the TV, Book Writers… I’ve got tons of stuff for all of them! Let me know if you’ve got a site or magazine appropriate to house it.

But for now, check out the article. I haven’t included EVERYTHING but I’ve put alot in. In case I’ve missed something really important though, please leave me a comment either at the Workbook Project or here. I’d love to hear your suggestions.

Check it out: http://workbookproject.com/?p=239