After an enormous 9 month engagement, the curtain has finally risen on DreamWorks’ latest animated feature and our unusual project creating a live action story of comic conspiracies and extraterrestrial mayhem to tie-in directly to the animated film. Juggling live action, animation, and comedy all at once proved to be extremely challenging, but I [...]
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A very cool honor for all of us involved in “Terminator” from this year’s Webby Awards!
It is my pleasure to inform you that Terminator: Dark Discovery has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Online Guerilla & Innovation category in The 13th Annual Webby Awards.
As a result of the exceptional quality of submissions [...]
Explaining these long complex story narratives that stretch over the course of months can be tricky so here’s a quick 5 minute video summary of our work on “Terminator: Dark Discovery”:
Please update your Flash Player to see this video.
var so = new SWFObject(’http://millionsofus.com/mediaplayer3/mediaplayer.swf’,'mpl’,'600′,’340′,’8′);
so.addVariable(’file’,'http://blip.tv/file/get/Millionsofus-TerminatorDarkDiscovery868.mov’);
so.addVariable(’fallback’,'http://blip.tv/file/get/Millionsofus-TerminatorDarkDiscovery905.flv’);
so.addVariable(’autostart’,'false’);
so.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
so.addVariable(’bufferlength’,'3′);
so.addVariable(’displaywidth’,'600′);
so.addVariable(’displayheight’,'340′);
so.addVariable(’image’,'http://millionsofus.com/img_assets/terminator-still.jpg’);
so.write(’video2′);
In addition to that, here’s a video clip of me on a [...]
UPDATE: Video of the panel (that’s me on the far right of the frame ):
DIY DAYS SF – The Art and Science of Crowdsourcing
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I’ll be part of a panel “The Art & Science of Crowdsourcing” at DIY Days this Sunday.
Lance Weiler, the film director behind The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma, has organized an [...]
This article from SciFi media site IO9 is an interesting discussion of the pros and cons of Alternate Reality Gaming campaigns and how they work (or don’t). Many of the points they make are things I think I agree with, specifically about relying too much on puzzles and schwag and not enough on compelling storytelling.
Here’s [...]
UPDATE 9/14/08: video of the panel
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I’m part of a panel at ARGfest this weekend talking about Extended Media Experiences and specifically my work on Terminator. Here’s a summary of what we’re discussing:
ARGs and Extended Media Experiences -
Connecting ARGs with marketing can be both an amazing challenge and an amazing experience for both player [...]
Already the recipient of an LACP Spotlight award, last fall’s WWE SummerSlam in Gaia campaign has been recognized as an Honoree by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, best known for putting on the Webby Awards, aka “The Oscars of the Internet” heh.
That means we get to put up this cool and very [...]
Terminator: Dark Discovery from blair on Vimeo.
ARG – An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants’ ideas or actions.
For several months, I’ve been working on writing and directing a [...]
Winning awards is always neat, and this project was especially fun and thrilling. We brought World Wrestling Entertainment into Gaia Online with an alternate reality experience like no other… Kind of a celebrity meet and greet that turned into a secretly pre-planned chaotic disaster. Like wrestling itself. Hard to define but here’s [...]
