Category: Film
Cannes 2014: VOD, piracy and the future of digital distribution
Today, at the American Pavilion, a panel including representatives of Creative Future, Elevated Film Sales, Saban Films and Alamo Drafthouse discussed the state of digital piracy on the independent film sector, and how new models of hybrid digital distribution can respond. First up was Ruth Vitale, Executive Director of Creative Future: an organisation which seeks to ...
We Are Colony partners with Film London for ‘Build Your Audience’
Delighted to announce We Are Colony is partnering with Film London for ‘Build Your Audience‘: an innovative audience gathering and distribution training programme for UK feature filmmakers. Addressing the rapidly changing face of feature film distribution across the globe, Build Your Audience provides participants with the skills, knowledge and networks to face the challenge of ...
SXSW Content: Exploring Place with Cross-Platform Storytelling – Case Studies
Next up at SXSW was “Exploring Place with Cross-Platform Storytelling“: examples of how new technologies like geo-tagging, location-aware devices, interactive video and augmented reality are being combined with traditional storytelling methods to explore the world in richer, more in-depth ways than ever before… The panel was made up of: Mike Knowlton, CTO of Storycode; Danny Harris, Creative Director ...
SXSW Content: OVEE, a case study of social video consumption
Today’s SXSW session “Lean Forward and Back: Social Video Can Have It All” explored how great technology and UX can engage audiences with online video as a social experience using the case study of OVEE, the social screening platform created by the Independent Television Service. The Online Video Engagement Experience (OVEE) platform was created to present ...
Cross-Media Forum – Part 3: Transmedia case studies
The Cross-Media Forum Conference 2012 explores how media organisations and formats are engaging with audiences across multiple platforms. The third session focussed on a series of case studies from BoomGen Studios, the National Film Board of Canada, Potemkino and Egmont Press. First up was Mahyad Tousi, co-founder and CEO of BoomGen Studios, “an innovative storytelling factory and next-gen global entertainment ...
Cross-Media Forum – Part 2: Paul Tyler and Wayne Fletcher on how to engage transmedia audiences.
The Cross-Media Forum Conference 2012 explores how media organisations and formats are engaging with audiences across multiple platforms. The second session explored how technology is changing the role and expectations of audiences. Paul Tyler runs creative consultancy Handling Ideas and kicked off the second session by discussed how technology is changing social norms and how we need to respond to that ...
Cross-Media Forum – Part 1: Sean Stewart and Ingrid Kopp
The Cross-Media Forum Conference 2012 explores how media organisations and formats are engaging with audiences across multiple platforms. The first session heard from Fourth Wall Studio’s Sean Stewart about the democratisation of storytelling and the Tribeca Film Institute’s Ingrid Kopp about hacking culture. Sean Stewart, the co-founder of Fourth Wall Studios, showed how technological advancements – from theatre to ...
