Digital Bootcamp returned once more to where it all began, the Frontline Club, Paddington, London - which champions independent journalism - on Friday 11 January 2013, as part of the London Short Film Festival's 10th anniversary edition. It was epic, a Deluxe version which saw a three hour lecture, one hour masterclass of five projects and an hour of networking.
11. Some trends
• Technological changes:
• Broadband; powerful devices; open platforms; frictionless
payments.
• Behavioural changes:
• Huge rise in online and mobile consumption.
• Business models:
• Increasingly online.
• Democratisation of production:
• Rise of the bedroom producer.
17. From The Audience is Always Right
Michael Zorn, TBWA Berlin
• Fractal Media Usage:
• People spend more time with more media in different ways.
• Individual Media Usage:
• People use media on their own terms and schedules.
• Volatile Media Usage:
• People use media in spontaneous ways, switching between media.
• Self-determined Media Usage:
• People can avoid or block content.
18. From The Audience is Always Right
Michael Zorn, TBWA Berlin
• Fractal Media Usage:
• People spend more time with more media in different ways.
• Individual Media Usage:
• People use media on their own terms and schedules.
• Volatile Media Usage:
• People use media in spontaneous ways, switching between media.
• Self-determined Media Usage:
• People can avoid or block content.
Result: it’s no longer easy to enforce people’s
20. From: How Social Media Can Make History
Clay Shirky
“Every time a new consumer joins this media
landscape a new producer joins as well,
because the same equipment - phones,
computers - let you consume and produce. It's
as if, when you bought a book, they threw in the
printing press for free ...”.
24. From Hamlet on the Holodeck
Janet M. Murray
“In 1455, Gutenberg invented the printing press
- but not the book as we know it. Books printed
before 1501 are called incunabula; the word is
derived from the Latin for swaddling cloths and
is used to indicate that these books are the
work of a technology still in its infancy ...”.
58. How much?
TIME
•It requires discipline - you have to commit the
time daily/weekly
•Use free tools to lighten the load
MONEY
•Social media and other digital tools are free
•Budget for your digital strategy from the start
•The Producer of Marketing and Distribution
59. When?
• Now, if not earlier…
• The earlier you start the bigger the audience
will be
• Use the social media tools as part of your
research process before the film is completed
• Involve any partners from pre-production or
even earlier
107. Be social
Build your audience
Use crowdfunding to help you do this
Involve your audience in a meaningful way
Experiment with new tools
Befriend a coder
Explore new forms of storytelling
Make the web, don’t just use it
Make beautiful things
Be generous
108. Be social
Build your audience
Use crowdfunding to help you do this
Involve your audience in a meaningful way
Experiment with new tools
Befriend a coder
Explore new forms of storytelling
Make the web, don’t just use it
Make beautiful things
Be generous
Don’t pee in the pool
109. • shootingpeople.org:
Entries now open for January’s Film of the Month being judged by
Kevin ‘Touching the Void’ Macdonald
• Sheffield Doc|Fest (12-16 June 2013):
Absolutely come. Group discounts.
• Submissions open for Encounters
17 – 22 September 2013
• Further reading – and some fun:
• http://bit.ly/Q1CMnZ