Why get dressed up and hang out with the sexy nurses or the bloody zombies? Stay inside where it is safe and catch up with classic cinema. You don’t want to go to your grave having to say you never did, do you? It’s free, unless you actually value your time. What’s 84 minutes to you? Come on give it over to one of the creepiest monsters of all time!
Hat tip to Open Culture (again!)
By Laura Hammer
As PMD on Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe In Unicorns, part of my job was to send newsletter updates to our base of supporters. Newsletters are not just for announcing screenings! They are an integral part of audience engagement and get people involved in your project as early as development stages. Your subscribers email boxes are flooded with newsletter campaigns from companies and projects and they will barely have time for yours. Do not bother them with something hideous (lacking design effort) and difficult to read (text too small or the length of an encyclopedia).
Newsletter layouts have four essential components: Header, Body, *Sidebar, and Footer. *Depending on the layout you pick you may have no sidebar, one, or multiple sidebars! If choosing multiple sidebars, I would advise picking a layout where these columns are below the main body text and above the footer. Choose wisely and investigate your own email box for designs that stand out.
George Lucas has always been an “inspiring package of entertainment”. To me, he represents a distinct strand of indie: the entrepreneurial artist. A great vision that recognized how to maximize the business proposition inherent in a story world and it’s execution. How much money did his model draw into the industry, dreaming of a repeat success? I suspect it has given birth to thousands upon thousands of cinema babies. Once we start recognizing the affinity that the creative industries have with start ups and general entrepreneurial ventures all share, we will be able to properly measure Mr. Lucas’ effect — and it will be awe-inspiring indeed. But that is not the only reason I remain optimistic at this latest stab at media consolidation. Or should I say “despite” this latest stab?
After all the remains were dissolved and gone and the streets were once again clean and clear, it might look a bit like this here:
Have you prepared for tomorrow night? How do you know one of those revelers isn’t actually what they look like?
By Roger Jackson
Previously: Filmmakers Festival Feedback
3 Months In
We’ve been at it for three months now. Building a platform like KinoNation from scratch is an enormous amount of work, and like most start-ups we have limited resources. But we’re having fun, meeting a ton of really great people in the indie film world, and making rapid progress. Most important, we’re increasingly certain that KinoNation is a viable business, and we’ve been able to validate (prove) most of our early assumptions.
It is said that if we want democracy, we have to elect to participate. The same thing is true of culture. If we want a vibrant ambitious and diverse cinema culture, we all have to participate. And now you have a chance to do that in a way that only takes about ten seconds…
