02 May 2014

Narrative Beats Digital Goldfish.

“Humans live in a storm of stories.”  Jonathan Gottschall is the author The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human tells us… Oh yeah, these days, more like a Stage 5 hurricane of stories. Every minute, 24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, 36,000 tweets are posted on Twitter, and…

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12 Apr 2014

Hilarious, yes.  Not sure what they’re selling?  But unfortunately, this fake video is too real.   “This Is a Generic Brand Video” originally written by Kendra Eash for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency nailed what’s all too familiar in brand videos – banality.   No surprise it all stock video clips. So where do brand…

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12 Mar 2014

Hooray!  Chris’ new book “Instant Filmmaker” is now available!  It is published by Michael Wiese Books, the premiere publisher of ‘how-to’ books on screenwriting and filmmaking. “Instant Filmmaker” is a power-packed toolbox for both filmmaker rookies and veterans of ultra-crucial “how-to’s” and shortcuts-to-success that blows the lid off uncertainty,…

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26 Feb 2014

Know-It-All Kid Hypes Highlander

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22 Feb 2014

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13 Feb 2014

Toyota came to us with a challenge – to create content that needed to explain features but was also innovative, entertaining and fun! They wanted content that was a story. An idea. That had personality. And engaged viewers as well as informed them. The story that we created for…

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