By Charles Peirce
As I alluded to in a previous post, Transmedia is in the midst of a debate about its definition and who has the authority to determine that definition. It is one of those discussions I think best observed from the sidelines, but then I have no financial or artistic stake in that debate. However, I do think they’re important terms to understand.
I don’t like to say I am a “content creator”, because I think it reduces the quality of what I do. I prefer to say I am a “storyteller”, even though I think that sounds a bit smarmy too, and really just covers one aspect of — along with the ultimate result thereof — my endeavors. “Film producer” is certainly a term that no longer is truly applicable to my ambitions, but still probably works best to capture what I do. One day I may finally stumble across the correct term for how I use my labor, but for now I just generate within an industry in total transformation.
We all know that the film industry is changing in many ways. But are we at all prepared for how it is going to change in even more rapid ways in the days ahead?
