Social Media to Inspire and Liberate Filmmakers. Technology to Enable Creativity. Follow @CreativeEnable. Talk given at Digital Biscuit 2012 www.digitalbiscuit.ie
2. Take a trip. Change
your pattern/ schedule.
Philisophical Go to a new culture.
Change a habit
Shots of
Espresso Find yourself in awe
of something
Be receptive. Open
to new ideas
Tell a story. Present your
ideas in narrative form
3.
4. A picture =
1000 words
At 24 frames per second =
24000 words per second
Feature Film = 120 minutes =
172, 800, 000 Filmmakers love
words!
turning ideas into
Not to mention the music, the audio, the
colours, the script, the story…
stories
6. As to methods there may be a million and
then some, but principles are few. The
man who grasps principles can successfully
select his own methods. The
man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is
sure to have trouble
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity loves
constraint
16. The six pillars of
New media
6
production
Content
Production
Take back what has
Discovery always been yours
Ted hope
Promotion @power to the pixel
conference 2010
Participation
Follow Ted Hope on
Presentation
Twitter: @TedHope
21. I think that while markets
are conversation, marketing
Storytelling for
is a story. Great marketers
listen relentlessly
online
audience
Follow Seth Godin on
Twitter: @ThisIsSethsBlog
22. People have always wanted to in some way inhabit
the stories that move them. The only real variable is
whether technology gives them that opportunity.
Frank Rose,
The Art of Immersion:
Community
Data GOLD
23. “Niche” and
Global
In three years, The Guild, a homemade
comedy series about gamers playing a World
of War craft -‐
like virtual role-playing game:
FELICIA DAY:
THE GUILD 65 million views,
and has even spawned its own comic book.
25. Collabor
ation
THE HUNGER
GAMES
According to Danielle DePalma,
between Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube and Tumbler, The Hunger
Games has more than 6-and-a-
half-million followers.
28. The film industry’s annual ticket sales have declined
almost every year since 2002,
but gross annual revenue has doubled
If fewer people are going to the
movies, how is the industry
avoiding bankruptcy?
Social
Media and
Filmmaking
29. Plus HootSuite or
Tweetdeck
Read the YOUTUBE
PLAYBOOK
Upload a video Social Media
Essentials
Create a twitter feed you
actually enjoy following