Hey Sunshines!
If you're interested in what transmedia is and what it means in relation to our indie film, Lost In Sunshine, you have to listen to this interview! It's FABULOUS (not just saying that because she's our producer, promise!)!
In addition, Lorie also explains how she got started in the biz & how Lost In Sunshine came to be what it is now!
Ever wonder:
How did Lorie and Jentri meet?
How did Lorie become the producer of Lost In Sunshine?
How do the transmedia components connect to a revenue model that benefits LIS?
What's LIS's target demographic and what are the challenges of reaching out to them directly?
What's the business model for LIS, and how does it differ from others?
How do you sustain the momentum of the whole process, especially since it's taking longer than initially anticipated?
What's the point/idea/intention of creating version 2 of the (LIS) website?
In terms of longevity, how else can LIS use the written (i.e., blog, prequel) material and maintain its integrity?
How does the LIS differ from other traditional movie websites? Why is it this way?
How long will you continue to create/act upon this (online prequel) narrative world?
What are your thoughts on future distributor possibilities in relation to what you're creating/producing re: advertising,
marketing, content, etc., now?
What are your thoughts for syndicating various types of content re: LIS later (i.e., amazon, kindle, etc.)?
What's LIS's connection/marketing relationship to spiritual cinema? How are you demonstrating that?
What are your thoughts on pre-sales/foreign markets for LIS?
How is LIS expanding its narrative?
What are additional rewards for LIS' audience participation on the website, beyond entertainment?
When did you discover transmedia and what projects inspired you to do this with LIS?
What is LIS doing to drive their own boat, that others aren't doing with comedy-dramas?
What are things that you've noticed on different channels (i.e., FB, twitter, blogs) that you've been able to identify
and change/tweak so that they're working more effectively for LIS as a whole?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, LISTEN HERE!
In addition, if you're an indie producer, you'll want to book mark Lorie's blog! Very helpful!
Forward Marsh is an entertainment and consulting company.
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When/If you listen to it, please let us know if you have any OTHER questions! We'd love to hear from you!
Thanks for caring & sharing... Happy Listening! xo Jentri
Posts by Jentri Chancey, an indie filmmaker relentlessly dedicated to writing and directing independent films, and sharing her film-related experience(s) with you. www.lostinsunshine.com
Showing posts with label blog fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog fiction. Show all posts
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Jentri's interview with Macha on herfuture.com
(Indie) Love is in the air during this one-on-one interview with myself and Macha for herfuture.com. :)
READ MORE & LISTEN HERE
AUDIO ONLY
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Using memories to make movies
Youth is important to remember for lots of reasons. It can bring us joy, or allow us to reflect on circumstances we can learn and grow from, particularly as an adult. In my new short film, based on Johnny Pott and Lyn Blue from Lost In Sunshine, we'll explore youth, and significant first memories.
In 1997 we lost our home, where I grew up, to a fire. When all the pictures are gone, and the home (and all that goes with it) is ash, all one has left are memories.
Even though my memories are completely different (in every way) to the subject matter of this short film, I'm going to turn my undesirable (past) situation into fuel to ignite this event... because I understand how significant memories are.
The lighthearted drama/comedy will serve as an extension of our story, helping to expand the entire narrative.
Let the memories begin!
Love, Jentri
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Fun Lost In Sunshine film fact
Blue is my favorite color. Not because I like to buy blue clothes or paint walls blue, but because I like the way it sounds - bounces off the page at me. So much so, that I chose "Blue" for Lyn's last name, also serving as a double entendre regarding the way she feels. Now, it's a major component in our story regarding our color palettes and the BLUE Top Motor Inn motel! :)
What's your favorite color and WHY?
What's your favorite color and WHY?
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
What are you working on right now that pushes you to be a better artist?
When we're in between "film thingies" it's easy to feel the weight of the world rest upon our shoulders and question everything we're doing, where we're going, and why we haven't made it there, yet.
Why not be pro-active to alleviate this kind of stress by focusing on what matters?
We're selective in the hairstyles we have, the clothes we wear, animals we keep, flowers we grow, and food we eat. So why shouldn't we be selective in the projects, too (not talking about gigs/jobs we take to make $, necessarily).
Creating haphazardly, or creating just for the sake of having fifty things to do has never appealed to me. I know people whose goals revolve around just that - having so many things in the pipeline, just hoping one of them will be successful. To me, working on projects takes too much of me to do that.
Doesn't it feel so much better to know that everything you're doing is working towards your ultimate goal (even if it seems like it's taking a million years to get there!)? It's actually what keeps me sane most of the time.
This year, one of my production companies, Paranormal Productions, which I'm a co-founder of, decided to make a feature film that we'll enter into the festivals (featuring our group, Aether Paranormal). If we are lucky enough to have our rough cut locked by Dec. 9th, then that baby will be post marked and checked for SXSW. That's actually the easy(er) part! I've never had a film be IN a big festival before, so that's one of my goals!
We're also marching along with Lost In Sunshine, my passion project of several years now. Now, this is one of my ultimate-ultimate goals - to direct a FEATURE I wrote from my heart (with a theme of self discovery). This film is pushing/allowing me to expand my knowledge of film-everything. It's also giving me the opportunity to meet and work with beautiful and talented people, I probably wouldn't know otherwise. Read more about it here: www.lostinsunshine.com
Another love child of mine is my on-going documentary, What I Know For Sure. It's a piece of spiritual cinema that features some really profound dialog from some fascinating human beings. You can watch the TRAILER to get a taste. It is my life's goal to continue to grow, learn and explore as a human, so it fills a special space inside of me, allowing me to incubate its birth while creating it. And that, I believe, makes me a more open artist.
Right now, I'm also in the middle of creating a short film, relevant to Lost In Sunshine, which we hope will serve as sort of a pre-story (one of them) into the lives of Lyn (our lead female protagonist in LIS) and her best friend, Johnny Pott. Even though we're shooting it as a "stand-alone" piece, this project is an extension of our story, and addition to all the blog fiction we're currently embracing with our characters. Hopefully, it will advance our agenda in showing off our collective talents, too - what we're capable of as a (production) team, and myself - as a director.
Meanwhile, I'm continuously trying to navigate through existing material, and create new material I feel will personally advance my agenda as an artist - a screenwriter, and indie director, to be exact.
Don't we owe it to ourselves to be selective this way?
I also call it focusing on what matters.
So, all that "in between" time turns into productive time, assessing the present (instead of worrying!), and creating what will be the future. I feel it's just as critical as any other time. It's our chance to select (aka: focus, meditate, strategically decide, and start to manifest) what we want to do next with our work... our lives.
And let the games begin.
What are you working on right now that pushes you to be a better artist?
Happy (selective) creating!
Why not be pro-active to alleviate this kind of stress by focusing on what matters?
We're selective in the hairstyles we have, the clothes we wear, animals we keep, flowers we grow, and food we eat. So why shouldn't we be selective in the projects, too (not talking about gigs/jobs we take to make $, necessarily).
Creating haphazardly, or creating just for the sake of having fifty things to do has never appealed to me. I know people whose goals revolve around just that - having so many things in the pipeline, just hoping one of them will be successful. To me, working on projects takes too much of me to do that.
Doesn't it feel so much better to know that everything you're doing is working towards your ultimate goal (even if it seems like it's taking a million years to get there!)? It's actually what keeps me sane most of the time.
This year, one of my production companies, Paranormal Productions, which I'm a co-founder of, decided to make a feature film that we'll enter into the festivals (featuring our group, Aether Paranormal). If we are lucky enough to have our rough cut locked by Dec. 9th, then that baby will be post marked and checked for SXSW. That's actually the easy(er) part! I've never had a film be IN a big festival before, so that's one of my goals!
We're also marching along with Lost In Sunshine, my passion project of several years now. Now, this is one of my ultimate-ultimate goals - to direct a FEATURE I wrote from my heart (with a theme of self discovery). This film is pushing/allowing me to expand my knowledge of film-everything. It's also giving me the opportunity to meet and work with beautiful and talented people, I probably wouldn't know otherwise. Read more about it here: www.lostinsunshine.com
Another love child of mine is my on-going documentary, What I Know For Sure. It's a piece of spiritual cinema that features some really profound dialog from some fascinating human beings. You can watch the TRAILER to get a taste. It is my life's goal to continue to grow, learn and explore as a human, so it fills a special space inside of me, allowing me to incubate its birth while creating it. And that, I believe, makes me a more open artist.
Right now, I'm also in the middle of creating a short film, relevant to Lost In Sunshine, which we hope will serve as sort of a pre-story (one of them) into the lives of Lyn (our lead female protagonist in LIS) and her best friend, Johnny Pott. Even though we're shooting it as a "stand-alone" piece, this project is an extension of our story, and addition to all the blog fiction we're currently embracing with our characters. Hopefully, it will advance our agenda in showing off our collective talents, too - what we're capable of as a (production) team, and myself - as a director.
Meanwhile, I'm continuously trying to navigate through existing material, and create new material I feel will personally advance my agenda as an artist - a screenwriter, and indie director, to be exact.
Don't we owe it to ourselves to be selective this way?
I also call it focusing on what matters.
So, all that "in between" time turns into productive time, assessing the present (instead of worrying!), and creating what will be the future. I feel it's just as critical as any other time. It's our chance to select (aka: focus, meditate, strategically decide, and start to manifest) what we want to do next with our work... our lives.
And let the games begin.
What are you working on right now that pushes you to be a better artist?
Happy (selective) creating!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Quit for Quality
I posted a blog yesterday on our Lost In Sunshine filmmaking blog that got a lot of attention on our Face Book, particularly.
The question I asked was, "What do you do, or tell yourself, to get through an intimidating moment/day/year/scene?"
READ ORIGINAL BLOG HERE
The idea isn't to just wait out a bad idea until you can do no more, but to figure out what's a mediocre (boring!) idea from a great one, by asking yourself the right questions!
In example, you may have ten ideas that really sound fun/interesting/worthwhile, but you only have time to really focus on a couple of them. It's important to be able to brainstorm your ideas out, and search for the purple cow in the mix.
In other words, don't quit something just to quit. Quit for quality. Quit other things so you can focus on the ones that DO matter. The GREAT ones.
The idea of quitting isn't just to quit something that's hard, either, but to the contrary, we should stick with what is hard if it's our dream-job. Let everyone else quit!!! Scarcity equals value, as demonstrated in Godin's, "Purple Cow."
It's our job to quit the stuff that doesn't matter, and to be able to tell the difference between something worthwhile, that just has a huge dip perhaps, vs. something that's at a dead end.
Reading "The Dip" was a great refresher. It inspired me to (again) reflect upon all of my own on-going projects and ask pertinent questions about them.
I encourage you to read them both, if you haven't.
It's never too late to transform yourself, and be the Extraordinary you that you were meant to be.
:) Jentri
The question I asked was, "What do you do, or tell yourself, to get through an intimidating moment/day/year/scene?"
READ ORIGINAL BLOG HERE
The idea isn't to just wait out a bad idea until you can do no more, but to figure out what's a mediocre (boring!) idea from a great one, by asking yourself the right questions!
In example, you may have ten ideas that really sound fun/interesting/worthwhile, but you only have time to really focus on a couple of them. It's important to be able to brainstorm your ideas out, and search for the purple cow in the mix.
In other words, don't quit something just to quit. Quit for quality. Quit other things so you can focus on the ones that DO matter. The GREAT ones.
The idea of quitting isn't just to quit something that's hard, either, but to the contrary, we should stick with what is hard if it's our dream-job. Let everyone else quit!!! Scarcity equals value, as demonstrated in Godin's, "Purple Cow."
It's our job to quit the stuff that doesn't matter, and to be able to tell the difference between something worthwhile, that just has a huge dip perhaps, vs. something that's at a dead end.
Reading "The Dip" was a great refresher. It inspired me to (again) reflect upon all of my own on-going projects and ask pertinent questions about them.
I encourage you to read them both, if you haven't.
It's never too late to transform yourself, and be the Extraordinary you that you were meant to be.
:) Jentri
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