Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

The Guardian:  "Our resident mobile-auteur guides us through ten film-making apps, including iMovie, Hyperlapse and Kinemaster, revealing some of their cleverest features."

Simon Parkin:  "Their films use the high-production standards seen in gaming and action movies in their quest to appeal and appal. But they’re not the only ones who have had that idea" ...

V Renée:  "Sometimes a camera comes along that changes everything you thought you knew about filmmaking. This -- is not that camera."

[DRC:  Something just for fun ....]

Dor Dotson:  "Want to make your film stand out from the crowd? It's time to get social."

Amanda Aszman:  "Ridley Scott. Matt Damon. NASA. Add Territory Studio & you have a recipe for UI design—& box office—success. Let's go behind-the-scenes of The Martian movie" ...

Joe Berkowitz:  "Director Baltasar Kormkur talks to Co.Create about evacuating sick actors with helicopters and shooting for six weeks in -30 degree weather."

Matt Mulcahey:  "Instead of limiting point of view to a single shaky handheld camera wielded by one of the characters, Unfriended unfolds entirely on the Mac laptop of Blaire, a high schooler who, along with five or her friends, is terrorized by the spirit of a cyberbullied classmate on the year anniversary of her suicide" ...

Melissa Locker:  "Shield 5 is a lot like Homeland or 24 but it lives on Instagram, and each captivating episode is just seconds long."

DRC: You can follow Shield 5 here.

Susan Karlin:  "After propelling games such as Call of Duty to global blockbusters, Arem looks to change the game for feature films."

Kristen Santer:  "The annual Sundance infographic is back to shed some light into how the films from last year's festival performed over the past 12 months, and many of the statistics reveal disheartening information."

Chuck Wendig:  "[...] I wanted to take a look at the film for some of the storytelling lessons it offers — in this case, not negative lessons (of which you could find some, I’m sure), but rather, positive takeaways that might wet your mind whistle when it comes to thinking about your story or other stories or, I dunno, delicious enchiladas."

Stuart Dredge:  "Ed Catmull says he’s open to being proved wrong by new generation of VR creators: ‘I think they should keep running the experiments’"...

Benny Evangelista:  "Miles Perkins, a spokesman for Jaunt, said virtual reality will change the way filmmakers tell stories. For example, closeup shots to emphasize a person’s reaction won’t necessarily have the same effect, because the viewer can choose to watch something else in the scene."

Angela Watercutter:  "Making movies for virtual reality is unlike any previous kind of filmmaking. You can’t “frame” a 360-degree shot. There are no cuts. And, weirdly enough, the characters can know you’re there."