TDS NEWS Digital
Thornhill
Digital Storytelling (TDS)
Monday, March 19, 2012 – Week 13
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Digital Storytelling As Documentary Process
Creating Programming For Digital Media
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Back to Work
In answer to many,
many questions, we are working on a new schedule for the TDS Proposal seminars. It appears that the next cities on our list
will be Seattle and Pittsburgh.
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If other money would
get your interest, try the new Nation Builder at www.nationbuilder.com. This resource is not yet perfect, but they
are working on it!
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In order to have an
event occur, we truly rely on the support of our Event Partners in each
city. The local team must be dedicated,
great communicators and willing to help with every level of prep, promotion and
review. In our next meeting, with the
files, we will look very closely at our track record and list those things we
believe are important to make every trip and presentation giantly successful.
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the stunning Cartier
example of branded Content. For those
who asked, here’s a shortcut to the full film; www.odyssee.cartier.us/#/home.
Do you have
examples?
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The many details to
support the Thornhill Digital Storytelling proposal seminar need even more
research and researchers. Information
gathering is an ongoing process. Letters will go out this month to research,
planning, production and design institutions requesting their consideration for
helping with our needs.
In the meantime, I
am searching for space to host meetings, conduct training for our new friends
and to establish an office. We can build
a template for seeking support for documentary filmmakers and refine the
protocol from our simple list to full automation.
Recently, to further
this quest, I have attended meetings with writers, toured possible meeting
spaces, delved deeply into the new co-working model and learned a lot about state-by-state
film production incentives. If you are
in Washington State, this could be important.
From Associated Press, by way of KOMO News:
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington's Legislature has voted to revive a tax
incentive program designed to lure movie production to the state.
The state House voted 92-6 Thursday to bring back the tax credits, with supporters saying it will draw business and spending to the state. Opponents counter that the program gives away $3.5 million a year when the Legislature is considering cuts to education and health care for the poor.
Having previously passed the Senate, the measure goes next to Gov. Chris Gregoire for her signature.
The program offers a 30 percent rebate off the amount of money spent in the state. It expired last July after the state House declined to take a vote on the issue.
The state House voted 92-6 Thursday to bring back the tax credits, with supporters saying it will draw business and spending to the state. Opponents counter that the program gives away $3.5 million a year when the Legislature is considering cuts to education and health care for the poor.
Having previously passed the Senate, the measure goes next to Gov. Chris Gregoire for her signature.
The program offers a 30 percent rebate off the amount of money spent in the state. It expired last July after the state House declined to take a vote on the issue.
If you are researching the rest of the country, here are two resources:
Screen Actors Guild
www.sag.org/state-film-incentives
Entertainment
Partners
www.entertainmentpartners.com/Content/ProductionIncentives/ProductionIncentives.aspx
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For Digital Storytelling Weekly Updates: http://digitalstorytellingseminar.blogspot.com/
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The
Thornhill Design Laboratory
I know it is hard to
imagine an intermission happening while traveling at full speed. This is not like a rest stop; but more an
acknowledgement that it takes many steps to get to the top. If you are running up the stairs, each bounce
raises you to an important plateau, but it doesn’t have to slow your pace or
change your stride.
The Thornhill Design
Laboratory is getting there – to the top.
We’re climbing the stairs, bouncing on the steps and even picking up the
pace!
Continuity is more than a concept.
We work from an annual calendar, spend a considerable amount of time
researching, preparing for the seminars and publications and worry just a bit
too much in our periodic reviews.
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Here’s our March
2012 intermission. I carried all of the
files in the office related to the Laboratory, placed them end-to-end on tables
and read them. If a file was out of
order that was repaired. If there was a
lead that had been forgotten, we got right on it. For new and expanded notions, they were put
aside for consideration in the near future.
Besides wading
through the files, there were two outcomes.
1. There will soon be a Thornhill Design Laboratory Strategy Meeting.
2. Prior to that meeting there will be constant
evaluation to determine what new course and/or strategy to be taken. These issues will get special attention: Administration,
Schedule, Revenue, Joint Proposals and Potential Partners.
Here is the agenda
for the meeting:
- Inventory
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- Thornhill Design Lab Workshop
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- Thornhill Digital Storytelling (TDS)
- Thornhill Digital Storytelling Proposal Seminar
- TDS Maui
- TDS NEWS
- TDS NEWS Digital
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- The Fashion Media Project
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- Client Services
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- Enterprise Development
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- Space
- Production & Learning Studio
- TDS Library
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- TDS Review
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Administration
Calling all planners, administrative assistants and project
managers. We need you to make our
aggressive program complete!
Administrative services interest in partnering for development of
businesses, events, publications and documentation might want to get their
information to me.
Duties as basic as maintaining the project calendar and as
difficult as database management will be offered to professional services.
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Spaces:
With great luck we
will strengthen our facilities planning with a crew to start on Proposals and
eventually a presentation.
These
seminars have survived interesting venues.
There has been a photography center meeting room, a music studio,
library meeting rooms, classrooms, a beautiful visual art gallery, a bar, a car
dealership showroom and a technology center.
Digital
Facilities…
Are facilities important enough to
create a true digital hub? The
presentation would be fantastic with internet connections, cable connections, a
satellite dish, large monitors, comfortable seating and hospitality. How expensive are these digital facilities
and who would build or outfit them? This
will certainly take additional research.
Production
and Learning Studio
Would such an environment result
in actual contracts? Could it start with
a training schedule? What design and
environment questions do we start with?
Digital
Metropolis
A much more efficient process
would be to start with a design for a cluster of buildings – planned for owner
or tenants with a mutual interest in digital development. Is there a plank in the local economic
development platform to address such issues?
An exciting option like this takes
about three years to evolve. Please
don’t think that immediate answers are required, but paying attention would be
a good idea.
Partner recruiting will not be easy. We continue to grow in sophistication – and
each year is better than the last. Our
upgrades are reasonable and we love our work.
It will happen
Thornhill
Digital Storytelling (TDS) is maturing very nicely in so many ways. Of course the piece that keeps making new
friends for the package – and keeps the veterans coming back – is our concept
of Kai Zen; Continuous Improvement. This
is most visible in product development.
Research
continues everyday. As we make this
primary product better, we are really following a game plan that will keep us
on the right track for years.
You Can Participate
- Let me know that you are interested in this or similar projects
- Refer this information to everyone you know who needs to be enlightened
- Attend, or sponsor ($20 each) a seminar
- Attend, or sponsor, one or more of the social events
If you are interested in becoming
a sponsor, send your e-mail indicating what part of our package has your
attention. You can pledge with an e-mail
or a phone call to (206) 265-2279.
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I have friends,
partners and clients who are also interested in corporate and personal lab
development. So let’s take a brief
survey of what is available. This is a
partial list. If you have suggestion of
others to report, let me know.
The Thornhill
Design Laboratory
Communications, Business Design
Thornhill & Studio
thornhillnews@hotmail.com
BMW Guggenheim Lab
www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/
cityLAB
www.citylabpgh.org/
DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
Duke University
www.reporterslab.org
The DTR Resource
Center
The Digital Television Report & DTR Support
digitaltvreport@hotmail.com
Nieman Journalism
Lab
The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to
figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet
age.
Harvard University
www.niemanlab.org/
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The Thornhill Design
Laboratory is responsible for Thornhill Digital Storytelling. At the next meeting there will be a detailed
report on our progress during this intellectual recess.
All of this will be
conducted with associates, affiliates (if we have any) and partners. If you are interested in attending this
session, let me know.
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2012 Is Your Year
Thornhill & Studio
Quarterly Design Review – Q2 2012
Thursday, May 3, Friday, May 4 - 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
& Saturday, May 5 - 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Free
To All With Advance Registration
To Register: http://thornhill-quarterly-Q2-2012.eventbrite.com
Thursday &
Friday Main Venue: DeVry University, Bellevue Center
Bellevue Corporate Plaza,
600 108th Avenue Northeast, Suite 209
Bellevue, Washington 98004 - www.devry.edu
Bellevue, Washington 98004 - www.devry.edu
Saturday Main Venue: Blue Martini Lounge
The Bravern, 700 110th Avenue, NE, Suite
295
Bellevue,
Washington 98004 -
www.bluemartinilounge.com
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Status Reports For Each Section
Thornhill Design Review / Thornhill News - A New Communications Network
The Thornhill Design Laboratory -
Including Thornhill Digital Storytelling
Corporate Development &
Revenue
Facilities: Thornhill
News Newsroom, DTR Resource Center, Design Lab Studio
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Special Gathering!
Fashion Bloggers Mixer
Presented by: The Fashion Media Project
Saturday, May 5 - 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Blue Martini Lounge
www.bluemartinilounge.com
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The Thornhill Design Laboratory
Andrew W. Thornhill
Culver City, California
thornhillnews@hotmail.com
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