“Cinema gave short film a mosquito-span life and while DVD gave them an extension, they were ultimately relegated to wallow alongside commentary, storyboards and outtakes. … Now with YouTube’s Screening Room and sites like Openculture.com the short form is finding itself in a kind of outreach program.”
Category: media
Why Don’t Bollywood Films Get Marketed In English? They Don’t Even Translate The Titles!
“[This] tiny, simple tweak could do so much to extend their reach beyond Hindi speakers. The studios bother to subtitle their films for export – presumably for second-generation immigrants with a shaky grasp of the mother tongue, and curious foreigners – so why not extend the effort to some of the overall marketing as well?”
David Mitchell’s Rules For Adapting Novels Into Films
The author of Cloud Atlas, the unfilmable novel that has just been filmed (and earned the author’s seal of approval), offers his five pointers for “how a novel’s structure must be made ‘film-shaped’.”
Meet Saturday Night Live‘s Cue-Card Guy (Yes, They Still Use One)
“For 22 years [Wally] Feresten has been perched next to the live-telecast’s camera, in a wide-legged athletic stance, holding at shoulder height white 14-x-22-inch poster-board cards hand-printed with lines for the performers. Attuned to the rhythms of each actor, Mr. Feresten lifts the cards and drops them into the hands of an assistant. He never looks away from the performer.”
Watching Your Favorite Show? It’s Getting Complicated
But there are also many ways to watch a show, even if it’s no longer on the air.
Even Established Movie-Makers Are Turning To Crowdfunding
“It’s indicative of the way film financing is going that such an established name as David Fincher has switched to online crowdfunding.”
Celebrating 150 Years Since The Lumière Brothers
“Long before the Coen brothers, the Weinstein brothers or the Warner brothers entered the scene, the original brothers of film were the Lumière brothers. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Auguste Lumière who was born on October 19 1862 in Besançon, France.”
Disney Thrashes About, Trying To Solve A Web Strategy
“Disney has now taken several stabs at creating a thriving Web site, and has vacillated on game strategy. Has the entertainment giant finally solved the riddle of new media? Or is it playing a no-win game on the whiplash-fast Web?”
Life Is Like A Box of Movies (Not Necessarily A Good Thing)
“One might even say that America has been remade in Hollywood’s image, not so much because it emulates movie glamour or behavior or language but because it emulates Hollywood’s way of measuring the worth of things and teaches us to place the perception of value over value itself.”
In Israel, Making Films Without Mixing The Sexes
“Men and women may never be shown together on screen; plotlines considered subversive or counter to Haredi beliefs are forbidden; and when the credits roll, the audience must have a lesson or moral to take home. The rules also mean that audiences are strictly segregated by sex.”