If you answer yes to the following questions, you are probably French. Have you ever decided against going to the movies because it was sunny outside? Have you ever said on a rainy day that it was a movie-going type of weather? This type of reasoning deeply affects the box …
Animation is celebrated each year by the lake in the French city of Annecy. Each edition is invigorating. So many passion driven individuals should they be newcomers or patrons, meet during a summery week in June. There are a variety of ways to experience the festival: as a volunteer (with the benefit …
The “sketchbook project” is an invitation sent out to anyone willing to contribute drawings to a universal library of sketchbook gathered by the organisation bearing the same name. How does it work? The participant after registering online will receive an empty sketchbook on which to draw. He/She will then send …
3D was seen in the 2010s as the new way to recreate an experience worth an outing. Since, the trend has faded away as the perceived value does not match the ticket prices. According to the British Film Institute (BFI), the percentage of people who chose 3D over 2D dropped …
A new era is opening to reinvent entertainment rules. For the music industry it meant shifting revenue streams from selling CDs to selling a unique experience that is to say concert tickets. The Internet provides listeners with near-to-free music through piracy (peer-to-peer file exchanges) or legal streaming (YouTube, Spotify, Deezer). …
“Producers are useless these days.” You can do without them, finding money through crowdfunding and distributing through the Internet. To an extent it is true. It is now possible to create audiovisual projects without the help of traditional channels (film institutes, TV channels, theatres) that the producers are masters of. …
Out of curiosity I started looking up theme parks with attractions related to the movies. Of course Disney ranks first and all the more after acquiring Lucas Film, which will brought to their current catalog of potential rides Star Wars and Indiana Jones. In 2015 a new ride featuring Avatar …
“Master thesis – Is coproduction a European model for animation movies? ” by Raphaëlle Chaygneaud-Dupuy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
After attending a workshop on book publishing by Michael Katz, Tradewinds, I wanted to visually represent the different players in that industry and the whole process behind any picture book hold by kids.
In the very first chapter of The big picture, Edward Jay Epstein summarizes in 20 pages the changes in business models that the American studios experienced. Below I tried to visually explain the differences between the two Hollywoods, the old and the new. In 1947, he explains, 3 major factors pushed the …
