Popular TV Shows as posters
Ninja December 11th, 2009
Art Director, Albert Exergian, presents his humorous view on television culture. Below are my personal favorites. You can view all 40 posters here.
Related link
+ Albert Exergian’s blog
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What Filmmakers Can Learn from Android
Penguin June 26th, 2008
From Wired: Google’s Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web:
[Android] is the re-creation of the Internet.
- Eric Schmidt
The internet is huge, powerful, awesome, useful; it’s been a boon for all content creators: filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers. Imagine where it would be if we understood this internet thing early on? The internet is still growing, it hasn’t even really come into it’s own yet. But as we try to capitalize on the internet, specifically through PCs, are we missing out on something bigger?
The mobile market is growing, adding 3 million users a year. When you leave your home, you bring 3 things: keys, wallet, cellphone. The iPhone, Blackberry, and other smart phones have made it so you can carry the internet with you. By extension, phones will eventually eclipse PCs in usage. I’m not saying they’ll replace PCs, but there are millions of people in the 3rd world who can’t afford a PC, but have a phone.
David Lynch said that as the screen size reduces, so does the experience. When I watch Youtube or any other online video, I have very little patience for the short or video to hook me. If there’s nothing compelling in the first 30-60 seconds, I move on. Cell phones are even smaller, so the attention span will be even faster. The fact that it’s mobile also changes the way things are utilized.
I love my Nintendo DS. I use it more than my Playstation 2. But the only game that I really play is Tetris. Tetris is a great game because each time I play is localized. There’s no ending, so I can stop playing at any time. I don’t have to worry about a story or where I need to go or do after a week or two of inactivity. I don’t have to worry about saving, so I can play while I wait for people and just close it when they come.
The mobile market will teach us new things about filmmaking. Video will be there, but we may not be able to tell the same sort of stories or tell them in the same way. But we can’t miss this opportunity.
Newspapers are dead. Magazines are dead. DVDs and CDs are dead. All have been replaced by the internet. And when information is free, we need to figure out another way to make money.
Google’s model is to build a killer app, then monetize it later
- Andy Rubin
Our killer app is our content. With so many content producers out there, it’s increasingly harder and harder to differentiate our product (our films) from the noise. It’s not just the stories that we tell, but how we tell them. When I’m browsing videos, I can instantly tell by the editing, titles, shot composition, or even color-correction if the video will be any good. As important as the story is, the presentation of that story has to be just as good, if not better. This requires resources in the form of money and talent. These are either financed, or we get that little break to begin to monetize our content.
How do we monetize content? I wish I knew. The MPAA doesn’t know, that’s why they’re holding on to DVD. The TV studios are starting to understand with things like Hulu, but the ad placeholders are annoying enough to force me back to bit torrent. My gut says the solution is to take it offline.
- Connect with your audience and provide them with an experience they can’t get online. It would be an extension of your film, bringing characters to real life or bringing set pieces for the audience to participate in.
- Make the DVD special, include things that can’t be copied for free.
- Other merchandise that ties into your film. Sometimes it’s t-shirts, sometimes it’s something else.
As indie filmmakers, we need to be pioneers. We need to understand where technology is bringing us and learn from what business and other content creators are doing with it. Yes we’ll make mistakes, but we make plenty already with our films.
-Penguin
Related postsQuick Battlestar Galactica fix
Ninja April 11th, 2008
Epic battles, heroes, killer cyborgs, pew pew lasers, and the search for Earth—it’s fraking awesome. It’s Battlestar Galactica!
Unfortunately, I haven’t got any new and exciting information on the new episodes. However, I do have a Barbarella-esque photo of the gals of BSG (Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer) from a GQ photoshoot and Edward James Olmos racing a rocket bike in a commercial for Farmers Insurance. Enjoy!
Photograph by Danielle Levitt via GQ
Related postsTV takes a break
Ninja April 9th, 2008
Your TV program takes a break when you do.
Personal digital TV with delayed viewing.
Via Ads of the World
Related postsPhoo Action tonight, 9:00pm on BBC Three
Ninja February 12th, 2008
I’m so stoked for Phoo Action! “What’s that?” you ask.
Well, it’s Jamie Hewlett’s 1990s strip, Get the Freebies, turned into a live-action TV drama. You’ve got a Buddhist Kung-Fu cop, Terry Phoo, and a feisty redhead teen, Whitey Action, fighting crime in London 2012. Oh yah, did I mention the criminals are a group of mutants called the Freebies?
Cast list
Whitey Action: Jaime Winstone
Terry Phoo: Eddie Shin
Benjamin Benson: Carl Weathers
Lady Elenor Rigsby: Talulah Riley
Lord Rothwell: Danny Webb
If the above hasn’t drawn you in yet, the script was co-written by Jessica Hynes (Spaced) and directed by Euros Lyn (Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace).
Related links
+ Watch the trailer here
+ Phoo Action’s myspace
I need to watch more Flight of the Conchords
Ninja January 24th, 2008
Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of the Flight of the Conchords are so hilarious!
Related links
+ Check out FotC’s myspace
+ See Bret McKenzie as Figwit in Lord of the Rings
Simpsons homages
Ninja October 5th, 2007
Happy Friday, everyone! I found a site that has a whole lot of Simpsons stills + the movie scenes they reference. Here’s one example—How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Images compiled by Miss Fipi Lele.
Link:
+ Want more? Check out the rest of The Simpsons’ homages here.
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Medellin Trailer
Penguin July 19th, 2007
I love Entourage. And this new season has been amazing so far. I don’t know if it’s just the timeliness of how they’re making a movie and I’m making a movie, or it’s just really good story telling.
If you follow the show, here’s the trailer for it.
Enjoy!
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