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Explore the impact of evolving technologies on the film industry, from faster processors to innovative platforms such as Hulu and Netflix. Discuss the challenges faced by studios, the rise of digital exhibition, and the role of videogames in storytelling. Delve into the potential opportunities for revenue and the changing landscape of movie production in the digital age.
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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?