Archive for December, 2009

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Moving Filmmakers to a Transmedia Business Model

18, Dec 2009

I’ve been working with two entertainment properties and a media start-up the past couple of months and I wanted to share the business models I developed to explain where we’re heading.
Here’s what we already know:  pulling in an audience is tough but pulling in finance is tougher.
The Old Days
In the “old days” – as shown [...]

The Fight for Exlusive Content

17, Dec 2009

When there are too many platforms competing with each other content will become king.
Right now entertainment has been devalued when you can rent a new film or TV show for 99 cents at a Red Box kiosk at 19,000 different locations, can download unlimited films through Netflix, and a rent/buy a film through iTtunes. I [...]

Doing the Wave

16, Dec 2009

Now that Google Wave has been out for a while, have you joined up? Is it living up to all your expectations, plus some? Or is it just something that you slobbered over because invitations were rare, but now you just keep forgetting to check in because you can’t figure out what to [...]

The First Ever Culture Hacker Gift Guide

16, Dec 2009

Deck the hall with boughs of holly! Tis the season to redefine storytelling as it evolves through collisions with new forms of media! Fa la la la la la la la la! Oh dang…that isn’t catchy at all.
Here are some particularly culture hackerly gifts, old and new, hand picked by the culture hacker [...]

May the mystery be with you – no matter if you are a storyjedi or storysith

15, Dec 2009

Quickly thinking out-loud tonight …
The element of mystery has grown to become just as powerful to cross-media storytelling as the force to the Jedi and Sith. And just as the force, there exists a dark-side to the element.
While the techniques and tools of cross-media storytelling vary from those used to tell a story for the [...]


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