Agent 99 - Online story telling
Audience engagement through storytelling on social media and mobile apps
Audience engagement through storytelling on social media and mobile apps
I have knocked together a quick wordpress site for My Inner Orc, which looks set for an October outing in London (Hooray!).
The only thing I learnt at the Script Writer's Festival in 2008 was about how co-pros work. I also spent time at the Edinburgh Film Festival last year listening to producers and sales agents talk. This stuff is really important for writers and you need to know how it works - if only so that you can develop the endless patience needed to sit these processes through without going nuts...
Here it is in a nutshell:
- Money comes from all over the show, almost never from one source
- All National money comes with strings and needs to tick boxes
Following on from a longer piece I wrote here on storytelling versus plotting (http://www.agoodstorywelltold.com/content/storytelling-versus-plotting) it seemed like a good idea to take some time to talk about storytelling and space.
After the bad timing of developing an intensely personal project with a first-time director and thinking about getting some money from the NZ film commission to do a draft only for said Commission to go all genre on us and move away from first-time directors and intensly personal stories...
It took a while to get the motivation up again, but I have finally begun to redraft it. I dug out some notes I made with the Producer last year and have started working my way through the script.
A slightly esoteric one this - so what's new?!
Reading a very good book called 'Lines - A brief History' by Tim Ingold which is about the anthropology of lines, threads and traces and covers some very interesting ground about such diverse things as weaving, seafaring, writing, drawing, threads and writing. One of the riffs is about the difference between wayfaring and travelling and it's logical double storytelling and plotting.
Ok folks, here is a quick article on how to give yourself a fighting chance with decent backups.
Of course those of you with external hard drives and Mac's Time Machine are well blessed with backup, it's pretty much set and forget.
Under three headings.... Writing, Web and... The Studio.
Writing
Every year I look back at a list I keep in the front of my current notebook - a cryptic list of titles of projects - and see how many I have moved forward.
This year I have moved 4 out of 8 things forward. The bad news is that 'forward' in this year is another year of no productions. However I don't want to be too harsh on myself (what's the point of that?) so lets look at the good things....
I've been playing around with some images to submit to a web series call - and yes they wanted support material. Click the attachment link below to see a composite...
