| NEW BREED: The Crowd |
| Description: By Gregory Bayne – As some of you know, I recently completed a successful funding campaign using Kickstarter.com to raise the initial capital needed to get my new film, Jens Pulver | Driven, an intimate documentary about legendary UFC Champion Jens Pulver, off the ground.
The end result of the campaign was $27,210 pledged, my goal was $25,000, via 410 contributors, in 20 short days.
Since the close of the campaign I ... |
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| Published: Mon Mar 15 '10 |
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| DIY DAYS is coming to NYC |
| Description: On Saturday April 3rd, the WorkBook Project and the New School present DIY DAYS NYC. This marks the first time that the roving conference for creators will make a stop in NYC. The day will consist of talks, presentations, workshops and a special section called Incubator that matches two media startups with a think tank of experts.
BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP!
For the last 3 1/2 years the WorkBook Project ... |
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Published: Tue Mar 09 '10 |
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| CULTURE HACKER: The Art of Branded Content |
| Description: by Peter Katz – Here’s my interview on branded content with Creative Director Tim Roper from award winning advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. We met Jan 23rd at UCLA Media & Entertainment Week.
What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions about branded content?
The biggest misconception is how easy it is to conceive it in a fresh way and then how willing people are to consume it when it’s not ... |
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Published: Sun Feb 21 '10 |
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| CULTURE HACKER: An Interview with Polly Frost |
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by Nick Braccia – About 5 years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Polly Frost and her husband Ray Sawhill through our mutual friend, Steve Vineberg. Immediately, we hit it off upon realizing we shared a passion for horror, sci-fi and pulp. I have to admit I was a little intimidated; both Ray and Polly have pretty intense journalistic, critical and creative resumes. Polly was featured in James ... |
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| Published: Thu Feb 18 '10 |
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| NEW BREED park city part 6 |
| Description: The NEW BREED Park City series continues. SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Dan Mirvish, Brian Newman, Ira Deutchman and Ted Hope to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring a proposal for a new relationship between filmmakers and festivals as outlined by Peter Baxter at the 2010 Filmmaker Summit. VIDEO after the jump.
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| Published: Fri Feb 05 '10 |
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| NEW BREED park city |
| Description: The NEW BREED series continues as SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.
Video after the jump.
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| Published: Wed Feb 03 '10 |
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| NEW BREED: DISCOVERING THE QUESTIONS vid |
| Description: Filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah of Sabi Pictures arrive at Park City with an intent to define the questions most relevant to independent distribution options. Insights from Brian Newman, Dan Mirvish, Jon Reiss and Ira Deutchman open a path toward discovering some real solutions.
Part of an on-going series from Filmmaker Magazine and The WorkBook Project.
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| Published: Wed Jan 27 '10 |
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| NEW BREED Park City – an open discussion |
| Description: The WorkBook Project has joined forces with Filmmaker Magazine to produce a number of daily videos from Park City. The following discussion focuses on the need for a alternative network connecting filmmakers and audiences. Featuring: Peter Baxter, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Brian Newman, Paul Rachman and Lance Weiler. Video after the jump.
from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.
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| Published: Sun Jan 24 '10 |
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| FIlmmaker Summit |
| Description: We’re excited to announce the Filmmaker Summit, a gathering taking place online and in Park City at the Slamdance Film Festival. The WorkBook Project, Slamdance and the Open Video Alliance have come together to stage a global event that will bring delegates from various parts of the world together to discuss and debate pressing issues that filmmakers currently face. But it isn’t just the delegates who will be shaping the ... |
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| Published: Fri Jan 08 '10 |
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| OpenIndie an interview with Kieran Masterton |
| Description: By Lance Weiler – OpenIndie burst onto the scene this past fall when Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) and Kieran Masterton ( a software developer) successfully raised over 12k via kickstarter campaign to bootstrap a new theatrical on-demand model. Frustrated at the current state of distribution the two teamed up to create a service that will help filmmakers find audiences and audiences find films. I had a chance to ask ... |
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| Published: Mon Jan 04 '10 |
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| NEW BREED: A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION |
| Description: By Zak Forsman – The last two years have been an extraordinary education. I often look back at the development process for HEART OF NOW and WHITE KNUCKLES and imagine what choices we at SABI would have made if we were the filmmakers we are today. With a new decade upon us and the promise of a community-defining year ahead of us, it is time to declare some ... |
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| Published: Thu Dec 31 '09 |
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| TCIBR podcast: 2009 in tech and entertainment |
| Description: For the third year running, Scott Kirsner (Fans, Friends, & Followers, CinemaTech), Woody Benson ( Prism VentureWorks) and Lance Weiler (founder of the WorkBook Project, story architect) sat down to discuss the year in tech and entertainment.
Subjects covered – the real-time web, geo locational services, emergent gameplay, transmedia storytelling, crowdfunding, augmented reality, DIY, 3D cinema investment, the impact of the Comcast / NBC Universal merger, Avatar and Paramount’s new ... |
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| Published: Tue Dec 22 '09 |
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| CULTURE HACKER: Moving Filmmakers to a Transmedia Business Model |
| Description: By Robert Pratten – 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 in Figure 1 – raising finance was what you did ... |
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Published: Sat Dec 19 '09 |
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| WBP roundup |
| Description: The WBP network will be growing in the coming months as we bring on additional contributors and finalize a new site design which is schedule to launch in the first quarter of next year. The following are some recent posts by contributors. Big thanks to all our contributors!
Over at the New Breed
The SABI Festival Strategy
by Zak Forsman
STEP ZERO: ASK YOURSELF WHY
Be honest with yourself and ask why you want to ... |
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Published: Wed Dec 16 '09 |
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| WE FEEL FINE – an interview with Sep Kamvar |
| Description: By Lance Weiler – In the upcoming issue of Filmmaker Magazine I write about the value of data to filmmakers. In my column I look at a number of projects and then tie them back into how they could be used by filmmakers to aid the curation, disovery and creation of films. One of the projects that I focus on in the piece is a data harvest project entitled “We ... |
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| Published: Mon Dec 14 '09 |
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| NEW BREED: A LOVELY Test Screening |
| Description: By Gary King For background history on the film project – visit my previous New Breed Article: “A LOVELY Filmmaking Process”
Having achieved picture lock with WHAT’S UP LOVELY, I feel that I am now able to fully cover the details of the decision-making process during the editing stage — and how engaging with test audiences affected its final outcome. Mind you, we are still in post-production as of this ... |
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Published: Wed Dec 09 '09 |
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| WBP celebrates 3 years |
| Description: WBP is growing by leaps and bounds. We just celebrated 3 years this past November. What started as a blog has grown to into a network both online and offline. 2010 promises even more growth as we expand our list of contributors, redesign our sites, and host a number of events here in the US and in Europe. WBP is an open creative network that is centered on assisting those ... |
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| Published: Fri Dec 04 '09 |
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| CULTURE HACKER: ARG Takes Center Stage |
| Description: By Haley Moore – Smoking Gun Interactive is taking its new ARG Exoriare very seriously.
Just because the game is intimately tied to the release of a new graphic novel and a planned console game, they aren’t about to treat it like an advertising campaign. In fact, they’ve been sending out press releases, writing stories for BoingBoing, and talking to The Guardian in anticipation of the ARG, rather than waiting ... |
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| Published: Tue Dec 01 '09 |
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| 10 Lessons Learned – The New Year Parade |
| Description: By Tom Quinn – In the fall of 2003 I began work on The New Year Parade with my co-producer, Steve Beal. Steve was a high school biology teacher with no film background and I was the building AV tech who would stop in at lunch to talk about my screenplay, which followed a South Philadelphia family through the first year of a divorce. It was loosely ... |
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| Published: Sun Nov 29 '09 |
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