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What happened to the days of classical Hollywood when hit movies weren’t a sequel or some variation thereof? When a film wasn’t made on...
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A powerful idea is gaining traction; the minutes immediately after a film ends may be the most psychologically valuable window in the entire storytelling...
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From intention to impact intelligence in the next era of storytelling By Ed Lantz & Julie Davitz For years, Social Impact Entertainment (SIE) has...
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It is sometimes easy to forget that Storytelling can take many forms beyond film, television and other visual media with which we are so familiar. Attending...
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Spheres, 360° domes, and other wrap‑around immersive environments create an unusually powerful sense of presence, transporting audiences into story worlds both real and imagined....
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In 1916, Henry D. Hubbard, the Secretary of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, spoke to the inaugural meeting of the Society of Motion...
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There is no single silence, but a typology of non-hearing and non-listening. Whether the supposed silence of a musical rest, of the anticipation of...
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Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. For more...
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Rango (2011) is an animated Western film about a chameleon that stumbles upon the town of Dirt, where he creates a false identity fulfilling...
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Linda Williams is a professor in the Film and Rhetoric departments at UC Berkeley. She teaches courses on pornography, melodrama, and “body genres.” In...
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When film transitioned to sync sound in the late 1920s, practitioners faced the question of sound perspective. Specifically, when recording sound on set, where...
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For audiences nearly a century ago, magic was believed to play an integral part in the production of filmmaking. Filmmakers were like magicians, discovering...
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Warning: this article contains spoilers. “I just want to have a few beers and talk like friends.” This is how Nathan, a genius billionaire...
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In 1929, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille told a story to a group of film engineers about needing to shoot a scene with Thomas...
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