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Double Edged Sword – The Digital Revolution and the Music Industry
I have a turntable, a CD player and an iPod. I listen to albums front to back. I still buy CDs and vinyl. And I’m going extinct. Feel Good Hit of the Summer – Queens of the Stone Age’s “Rated R” album....
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Film, War and Narrative
Gustav Freytag established for the literary world a model, known as Freytag’s Pyramid, to serve as a quick guideline for all effective narratives. It can be applied to thousands of stories, from the...
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TROVE – Music Video Script
TROVE MUSIC VIDEO MAIN IDEA: The theme of the song is “Ambition” (also the title). The video is meant to be a story of overcoming the odds, overcoming the humdrum of everyday life in order to fulfill a...
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Scavenger Hunt: Toronto
On Saturday, us Media Fundies traveled downtown for a photography scavenger hunt. Upon arrival, I was overwhelmed by a sense of nostalgia. I parked my car in my old neighborhood and ventured out into...
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Video Games in Reality
This week we looked at interactive digital story telling and I was instantly reminded of my old X-files video game, the one released on the first Playstation back in the late 1990s. In addition to...
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Creating a New Blog?
I am thinking of creating another blog…. The WordPress logo. Souce: Google Images. The core concept would involve a wide variety of multimedia works: videos, photos, blogs etc, all created and designed...
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Non-Fiction Story Idea…
Our latest assignment involves the telling of a non-fiction digital story. After troubling over what to write about, it seems that such a method of story telling is best suited to disaster and war...
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Non-Fiction Vs. Fiction…
Anyone remember this book? Cover art from James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces”. Image courtesy of Google Images. I’m pretty sure Oprah does. James Frey would cease to forget the whole fiasco either....
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Too many ideas, so little time
Originally, I’d proposed writing a script based on the theme of the female vigilante. I’d done research on StatsCan and RAINN to support my narrative and backup the motivations of my characters. I was...
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A change in tech, a change in taste…
It’s become fashionable to film digitally in 48fps as opposed to the original 24fps. This has lead to a slow disappearance of the traditional ‘cinematic’ look of film. Film itself seems to be on its...
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Scriptwriting & If/Then Moments…
I approached my latest assignment with a story that I had kicking around in my head for some time now. I’d been listening to a lot of Portishead and re-watching Trainspotting and Fear & Loathing in...
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