TDS NEWS
Digital
Thornhill
Digital Storytelling (TDS)
Monday, July 30, 2012 -
Week 32
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Digital Storytelling As Documentary Process
Creating Programming For Digital Media
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Are You A
Writer?
Hollywood Wants
Stories With Digital Assets & Features
Will A Studio
Invest In You?
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Thornhill
Digital Storytelling
Presents
A
Documentary Funding Proposal Seminar
For Individuals,
Businesses & Arts Organizations
For Film,
Television, Radio & Branded Content Producers
Thursday,
August 23, 2012 – 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Friends,
Philosophy & Tea
13850 Bel-Red Road, Bellevue, Washington 98005
(425) 641-4364 – http://friendsphilosophyandtea.ning.com
$20.00 Per
Person - Advance Registration Is Required
To Register Go
To: http://thornhilldigitalstorytellingseminars23.eventbrite.com
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Documentary
Funding Proposals - What’s Your
Story?
The focus of this leading-edge workshop is showing how to
link the many necessary parts –
from inception, through creative, technology and production,
to traditional or digital
distribution and real world business development. These are the elements that
will make your funding proposal rise above all the rest.
The agenda for this brand of
storytelling covers more than 50 items.
Each is offered in a way
that shows how to be a winner in
the specific category, yet still blend them all into
a meld that guarantees continuity
and continuous improvement.
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A Biography
This is wonderful! I
am witnessing the evolution of storytelling.
I am part of a mass revelation that telling your own story is possible,
enlightening and beneficial. As a
civilization we have options, we have understanding and we have
self-awareness. We have the tools, we
have the images and we have the music!
We share our ideas through conversations, telephone calls,
letters, emails and social media. Sometimes
we relate these concepts as a story. And
most of the time it is a true story.
Does our non-fiction story have value beyond our initial
telling? Would others, beyond our circle
of friends want to hear our story – and perhaps pass it along to their circle
of friends? How do we start?
To make it easy, let’s assume that the form we want is a
biography. Our remembering, telling and
passing along could be as simple as being excited to tell the latest while
visiting with a friend over coffee – or as elaborate as a combination of story,
book, film and television series.
What if you turned your story into a biography? You could tell a compelling story about a
person, family, organization, project, business, building, street,
neighborhood, city or state.
For me, a true story is a resource. For you it can be many things.
Audiences
You might have noticed that in our announcement for the next
Thornhill Digital Storytelling Documentary Proposal seminar we suggest that the
event is for “Individuals, Businesses & Arts
Organizations - For Film, Television, Radio & Branded Content Producers.”
At the start of each event, there is a time for
self-introductions. Along with the
writers, planners and filmmakers that are always present, we have recently
attracted music professionals, dance administrators, visual artists and
designers. Adding the input of these
creatives makes for a richer and more beneficial experience for all involved.
Industry Growth
We started as a projected service for writers in the
television industry. The interests of
documentary filmmakers came next. Now,
we seemed to be swamped with news and announcements about “Branded
Content.” With bigger dollars made
available for the production of short films from corporate and advertising
agency clients, the borders are being erased in the more sophisticated camps.
In our next issue, we will list jobs available in the
entertainment community. From our
advance peek, the listings cover television, film, music, advertising and the
fine arts.
Product Development
We are also adding to the market expansion.
We’re on the road for the August 23 seminar in Bellevue and
will be in the New York/New Jersey area in September.
The Documentary Funding Proposal seminars
are the core of this evolution. We all
learn more about the industry as we research and produce events.
Publishing is showing and growing at a calm, regulated
pace. TDS
NEWS, our detailed newsletter and event program, is complimentary at the
seminar and includes:
·
The Thornhill Digital
Storytelling “50 Steps To Documentary Success” checklist and
up-to-date industry examples and news links.
·
The publication lists
“Everyday Resources” a slate of industry stalwarts providing no-cost,
e-mailed, daily information reports on individuals,
companies and trends in digital media.
A crossroads this month is to decide on the publication
schedule. Should the printed TDS NEWS
continue on a per event basis or move up the slippery slope of monthly or
quarterly issues.
TDS NEWS Digital is
still our best contact with the world through our every-Monday issues. We will soon expand to a Multi-Platform structure, including integration into our
new digital landscape. This is the
hottest request from the film industry!
Radio Is
Golden
I am looking for writers and/or producers who have turned
their news or non-fiction broadcast radio script, report or show into a film or
television documentary.
You could be one of three featured as a positive example at
the next Thornhill Digital Storytelling Documentary Proposal seminar to be held
on August 23, 2012 in Bellevue, Washington.
Check at http://thornhilldigitalstorytellingseminars23.eventbrite.com.
A description of
your work under “Radio As Anchor For Digital Storytelling” would also be
carried in TDS NEWS and on the TDS NEWS blog (http://digitalstorytellingseminar.blogspot.com/).
TDS will only carry the description of your effort. We will not attempt to air, nor distribute
anything beyond our own seminar, printed program and online blog.
Please submit a written description only – not the
project. There is no charge for
submission. Entries can come from
individuals, groups, schools, businesses or stations. The deadline for this round is midnight, PDT,
August 10, 2012.
This is not to be construed as a business offer, nor will
there be any financial compensation for participation. We will not pursue any form of ownership
through this opportunity. Thornhill
Digital Storytelling (TDS) only intends to recognize and celebrate your hard
work.
Crew
We have openings for crew
members. The most obvious gap is in the
wide chasm of administration. There is
still hope for a partner company, yet we have met with qualified individuals
who could be of great assistance on a traditional contract basis.
The research needs are growing. Here’s a challenge – can we find 3 companies
for each of the elements in the 50 Steps To Documentary Success profile? For instance, when we suggest regular
meetings as one of the 50 steps, is it ok to list one or more meeting planners
– or even venues?
Here’s another. What
basic books can we recommend for the 50 elements, the genre or even for the
documentary film industry?
We have always needed, and will possibly always need,
production support. If this is your
turf, ask for the list of work assignments that we have reserved for production
partners.
It is apparent that a monthly planning session would be
helpful. This is also a great way to
introduce new partners and associates to the intricacies of our work, our very
cool partners and the vast potential in this category. The next date for a planning
meeting has yet to be set. If you are
hankering to participate, get on the mailing list by sending a note to
thornhilldesignlab@hotmail.com.
A Partners Update
A few capable companies have responded to our call for
partners. Their feedback: The structure
of the TDS initiative is solid. The
continued research – guaranteeing an always-great seminar is stellar. If we continue this way, there could now be
partners for administration, TDS NEWS and TDS NEWS Digital.
Here again, should we have weekly or monthly planning
sessions? Let’s pull out the calendar,
talk to our current partners and start building a bigger, grander structure and
project.
Facilities
TDS does well when it comes to identifying interesting
venues for our events. With proper
matchmaking of venue to agenda, meetings can be held anywhere. We have succeeded in Los Angeles, Maui, Pittsburgh,
Seattle – and now Bellevue. Recent
conversations with associates in Jersey City have included a quick look at
dates to build meetings and/or a seminar for that market.
Think Bigger!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a dedicated space as the office for the
management of Thornhill Digital Storytelling?
The desks, lamps, file cabinets and file transfer boxes are ready to go.
The Thornhill Design Laboratory
Business, Communications Design
The Thornhill Design Laboratory has many options for you to
examine storytelling – without fear or worry.
We’re information and research driven.
Our objective is to provide you with the awareness, the connections and
the business rationale to support you, the storyteller and your story. We do not review, evaluate or critique.
Salon
This Wednesday,
August 1, 2012 we will launch a casual Salon.
This is a low-key way for you to get to know us and for us to get to
know you. We
will start at 10:00 AM and run to Noon.
There is
no mandatory fee, but donations will be accepted when you register. Pay what you choose. Advance Registration is requested. We have limited our group to twelve
participants, so that each person can fully participate.
Advance Registration – Pay
What You Can
At: http://tdlsalon1.eventbrite.com
The
purpose of the event is to give detailed information about this new weekly
series, to be held each Wednesday morning in the Fireside Room at the Fremont
Abbey Arts Center, 4272 Fremont Avenue (At the
corner of 43rd), in Seattle, Washington 98103. Check: http://fremontabbey.org.
The salon will always be a source
for up-to-the-minute news and connections for everything happening at the
Lab. This meeting will be weekly.
This could also be a classic opportunity to: Meet
like-minded folks; Build a crew: or simply become more comfortable with the
possibility of your story having a future.
Our book this week will be “The Biography of a Building: How
Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum”, From Thames & Hudson
(www.thamesandhudson.com/9780500342763.html)
If you have read the book, or are reading it now, we would
certainly like to hear your opinion.
Join us – or email it in!
Coffee and bottled water will be
served. You are certainly welcome to
bring pastries or other treats for the group to enjoy.
To many, networking has come to mean events and social
media. The Salon could help with both.
For others, just getting started is not enough. In these interesting times, pursuing value in
storytelling might have the possibility of a new or revitalized career. Perhaps reviewing the biography model has elements
of the documentary structure that resonate and even inspire.
To that far reach, The Thornhill Digital Storytelling
Documentary Proposal Seminar can provide the next step of your development.
The Seminar delivers a work process, awareness of the
traditional and digital tools necessary, examples of current programs, campaigns,
products and new business categories for storytellers. The detailed session and printed program
combination was created to give a balanced understanding of a winning
documentary funding proposal.
After you determine the story you want to tell and feel that
this is and interesting pursuit, do a little research. Do you have memories that will help your
story? Can you call on associates,
neighbors, fries or family to add to or spur your information gathering?
Make notes, build a timeline, and create an outline or a
skeleton to get the writing started.
When working with others, don’t be afraid to share your mission, or even
ask for help. Consider these elements to
be tools to help you and your contacts better understand the effort.
When you are ready, think about self-publishing. You learn a lot when you take charge of a
biography. Take the risk of approaching
the copy machine. Come away with a small
book or booklet. Once you start on the
thorny path of production, you will find great challenges, amazing issues and a
bank of classes, non-profits, suppliers, vendors and contractors available to
help.
With this first product in hand, you are ready to become a
producer. Dream a bit. Think about your true story as a documentary
film. Perhaps your booklet is the start
of a script.
But don’t stop there.
How about a television series, a nicely packaged DVD, a radio special,
Webisodes, branded content, a striking photography essay in a book, online or
in a gallery. Then, combine them all
into a multiplatform, never ending project.
What’s your story?
Will we see you on Wednesday at the Salon in Fremont? Register today at: http://tdlsalon1.eventbrite.com.
You will appreciated the environment and really enjoy the
neighbors.
Why a Salon?
The Thornhill Design Laboratory has many options to examine
storytelling – without fear or worry.
We’re information and research driven.
Our objective is to provide our participants with the awareness, the
connections and the business rationale to support the storyteller and their
story. We do not review, evaluate nor
critique.
To stimulate meaningful conversation, I have compiled a list
of associates and friends I would like to invite as a special guest for a
Wednesday of their choosing.
Would you be willing to spend an hour or two with us? If so, please check your calendar and let me
know what date between now and the end of September would be best. Our standard schedule is Wednesday morning
from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. For special
days, we continue until Noon. And if the
fun just won’t stop, we can wander to a nearby café for lunch.
The Salon is getting great attention. The way to make it better is to introduce you
and your list to the event.
Ask About The
Maui Video Marketplace
Our marketplace concept brings
together all parts needed to build a film, or a production studio or a
collaborative cluster of film-related businesses to grow the region.
We start with a seminar series,
printed programs and access to information supporting the global transition
from analog to digital product distribution.
From Internet applications to digital television to digital channels,
your career in the industry will be given a major boost by participating in the
Thornhill Digital Storytelling seminar.
The Maui Video Marketplace will
grow from an idea to a location for training, serving clients and developing
proprietary and contract media products.
The choices will include live events, classes, print media, audio and
radio, video and television, digital and Internet, plus film industry
connections.
The TDS Digital Landscape
Thornhill Digital Storytelling
will soon announce plans to be part of a 30-company campaign to learn more
about efficient PC platforms and the necessary drama to make enterprise-wide
integration work.
The recent flurry of activity in the smartphone and tablet
(mobile) space makes our decision to adopt the Windows 8 platform a lot more
interesting. This means there will be a
transition to a common platform for all that we do. Our integration of every aspect of our
technology universe into one productive framework would be a dream come
true.
An internal survey is being conducted. We’re looking to identify any and all
software from Microsoft. As the company
rumbles on towards the public launch of Windows 8 on October 26, 2012, we want
to tag along. To start, having a tidy
file of all things Microsoft will help move us to the next step.
This is all part of The Thornhill & Studio - Digital Landscape – Platform Integration campaign.
Sponsors
Are we ready to make presentations for sponsorship? If you think yes, check this press
information from the Knight Foundation and let me hear from you. “Knight Foundation to focus on building
entrepreneurial ecosystem”- The foundation will make grants
in six key areas of need in South Florida’s entrepreneurial community.
www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/17/2899760/knight-foundation-to-focus-on.html#storylink=cpy
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Do you have questions or suggestions? Don’t hesitate to get in touch. And feel free to pass this on.
The Thornhill Design Laboratory
Business, Communications Design
Structure
(1) The Thornhill Design Lab
Salon
A weekly synopsis of everything connected to
the Thornhill Design Laboratory.
Presented
in Fremont, an iconic neighborhood in
Seattle, Washington – known as
“The Center Of The Universe” by residents and
neighbors.
(2) Thornhill Design Lab Workshop
Design Review / Kai Zen
What is design? Aesthetics for inspiration, product
development, financial planning and real-world
case studies are included - create using
function and form. Design efficient
operations structures,
work processes, digital networks,
multi-platform media programming and manufacturing to
proceed aggressively in the digital-led
economy. You will better understand and
appreciate the talents of designers,
storytellers, planners and artists.
(3) Thornhill Digital Storytelling (TDS)
TDS Digital Storytelling Documentary Proposal
Seminars – Series & Special Events
TDS NEWS - Subscribers / Subscription
Management
TDS NEWS Digital -
http://digitalstorytellingseminar.blogspot.com/
Digital Media Devices
(4) The Fashion Media Project
Research, Events,
Radio, Television, Tablets,
The Fashion Bloggers Connection
(5) Client Services
Case Studies / Digital Strategy / Extensions
(6) Development
Editorial, Design Continuity, Administration,
Database Management,
Financial Planning, Integrated Marketing
Planning, Partners, Sponsor Presentations
(7) Production & Learning Studio
Schedule, Research,
Internet Presence / Digital Media Devices,
Facilities / Environment,
Library / Archives
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July 2012
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Andrew W. Thornhill
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