During Social Media Week in New York in February, Red on Black Productions will showcase the stories of New Yorkers’ experiences during Hurricane Sandy through the mobile storytelling platform, Moveable Feast.
Read MoreSleeping in the Slaughterhouse: 12 lessons in Microbudget Filmmaking
One of my favourite talks at London Screenwriters Festival had to be Signe Olynyk & Bob Schultz giving their first hand experience in producing their first feature, Below Zero. Signe locked herself into the slaughterhouse in Edson, Alberta and made the film right where she wrote it.
Read MoreChannel 4 Fuel4: Director Asif Kapadia on Senna
Channel 4 held it’s forth Fuel conference, a day for multiplatform creators, producers and technology partners, at the end of October, 2012. We had the pleasure of hearing Asif Kapadia speak about his work directing Senna and how he made the extraordinary documentary about Formula 1 driver, Ayrton Senna.
Read MoreConvergence Festival: Be honest, open, and upfront
This morning’s Convergence weekend as part of the New York Film Festival has been driving the point home that people want to see good, relevant content, and most of all people want to work with honest, open and upfront people. Who wouldn’t really?
Read MoreI’m speaking at Transmedia London 5 in May!
I’m really excited. I have to fly through London on the way to China for our half marathon. When I’m on the way back I get to speak at Transmedia London 5 on 29 May, 2012 at BAFTA. I’ll be talking about my web series Raptured, what I learned from making the first series and what I’m going to do with the second series (eek!). I really want to put more of a transmedia element to it to tell the story of the new Raptured world.
Read MoreSounds of Us: Museum of Broken Relationship commission now live
Last summer Michelle Tsen and I made a film for the Museum of Broken Relationships. We crowd sourced “relationship” sounds from Twitter and Facebook and made a stop motion video of one of the objects donated to the Museum of Broken relationships.
Read MoreTop Video Tips
I wasn’t going to lead a session at DellB2B but I decided that it would be good to talk about video. In the B2B space and even in the B2C space, it feels like there is a lot of content but is it any good? I was asked to give a few tips after my experience with Raptured
Read More6 tips for first time directors
It’s been a really interesting process so far directing my own work. I’ve been on set a lot throughout my career so far in various different guises but as a director I’ve mainly self shot or worked with a small crew on documentaries.
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