#WritingAdviceWednesday – Media Fast
Tag: Media
Fast for Writing Fitness
I strongly recommend that you take a break from all factual and fictional media stories to get over a block in your story.
Children’s Media Conference 2014
Leading children’s media event to host Waterstones Children’s Laureate
Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield UK
If you are interested in family programming The Children’s Media Conference is for you.
Mark Zuckerberg on SNL
The lesson here is FaceBook and Zuckerberg’s deft handing of The Social Network movie. Despite being a fictional and immensely unflattering protrait, Zuckerberg wisely refrained from going ballistic in the press– which wouldn’t have helped and would have only made him look worse. Now he is at the point of being able to laugh at the whole thing and wins points for not taking himself too seriously.
YouTube Moving to a Subscription Model?
YouTube has reportedly moved closer to offering users subscription services to access full-length TV shows, in an effort to tempt more broadcasters on board.
How Not To Write Online
Here are my observations about a very spectacular public online series failure: Quarterlife. These are the take-aways from my analysis of the series created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick
AFI Digital Storytelling Conference
The AFI DigiFest 2009 is a great opportunity to learn about cutting-edge storytelling and media prototypes created at AFI and across the country. Free registration and links here.
The Switch to Online Viewing
Common among many who have cut the cord is a sense of rebellion, not against TV but against service providers. They believe their way of watching represents the future of TV — online and on demand.
Mobile Micro-Blog Novel Writing
The Micro-Blog Novel is shaking up a publishing industry that has been declining for a decade. An author of fiction is lucky to sell a few thousand copies of a title. A popular cell-phone novelist sells several hundred thousand, and recruitment for new talent is intense.