Tuesday is another brick in the changing landscape of digital communication. Cult Classics, LLC. launches it’s “Cult of Sincerity” film and releases the entire thing…. yes the whole thing to YouTube.com (Check it out here)
The trailer is fun, professional and well done. Personally I hope this is a sign of more things to come. Can you picture just trolling the web and finding the films that are big at Sundance, Tribecam etc right after the festival wraps? Now as for the financial model - as far as i can tell.. there isn’t one. I’m sure they’ll sell merch (which I’m ordering, it’ll go well with my Chad Vader collection.. no seriously) and then they’ve got options for you to buy the film for download (it’s just 3 bucks, courtesy of AmieStreet.com). This is a HUGE risk and have to applaud it. I think the guys releasing this are taking a great leap and that takes cajones (ie: stones). So what’s the angle? Creating content for digital dwellers is noble, no question. But what a great way to show the world their skills. I’m sure they are taking orders for their next project right now.
I sat down with Radio Magazine about a month ago to give the skinny on Radio options in the digital age. and they highlight The DROP - So that’s always a nice thing.
While podcasting may at first seem irrelevant to radio, enter the term on-demand radio, unofficially termed by Dan Portnoy.
Is traditional/terrestrial Radio doomed in the light of satellite radio, On Demand podcasting, HD options and iTunes Integration?
Join Jerold Franks, CSA (EMMY and ARTIOS winning casting Director and also the Casting Director from the Hit show “LOST”) Ransford Doherty, Actor and Dan Portnoy, Producer - for two dates in Virginia.
A three-hour lecture will be followed by a one hour, Q&A session with the panel.
Topics Include:
Any Questions??? Email: scotty@redcloudproductions.net or press@portnoymediagroup.com
I feel a little like Micheal J. Fox or should I say Alex P. Keaton.
Wednesday I’m headed to L.A. to join up with the crew from The SOLD Project, a documentary on the sexual slave trade of Southeast Asia. I was introdced to this project and the crew working on it last fall while they were doing principal photography. The more I’m learning about the atrocities that are happening in the lives of these children - I couldn’t just sit on my hands.
That’s why I’d like to ask you, the reader, to check out The SOLD Project and then sign up to be involved. Tell me what you think of the project so far…. I’d be very interested to get your thoughts.
