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Explore the impact of technology on the film industry, from faster processors to digital exhibition in theaters. Discover new channels like Hulu and Netflix, and innovative narrative platforms in videogames. Uncover the shifting landscape for indie filmmakers and the debate on narrative principles and revenue opportunities. How are studios adapting to the changing landscape and capital costs in this digital era?
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Technologies of Storytelling: New models for movies Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Technology’s wake-up calls • Faster processors • Increased storage capacity • Expanding network bandwidth
Relative disabilities • Recorded music • Same wake-up calls • Reduced capital costs • Marginal cost, and therefore, price approaching zero • Studios’ heads in the sand • Movies • Same wake-up calls • Much higher capital costs for human capital • Large sunk costs still likely • Innovative efforts to explore new channels: Hulu, Netflix
A new three-legged stool • Digital exhibition in movie theaters • Internet browsers—fixed and mobile-- as a TV sets • Videogames as platforms for narrative movies
Is the tail wagging the dog? • Too much on • Narrative principles? • Stages of production? • “Facts” in consumption section • Enough on • New possibilities? • New opportunities for revenue? • IP discussion at the end, as now, or as part of serialization section?