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Podcasting For Film – An Ecosystem of Possibilities
Podcasting for Film or Podcasting with Films? It’s true – the line between TV, film, apps, and media is blurring. Remember Quibi, the short-form (and short-lived) micro-stories app featuring Hollywood talent? The value proposition was a convergence of Netflix and Clubhouse (without the IPs of the former or the scarcity and community of the latter). Quibi tried to blend short attention spans with a long back catalog positioned behind a paywall without actively involving the user. While no media (or mediums) lives in a vacuum, all media (and mediums) co-exists and can, if integrated properly, cohabitate. Podcasting is no exception. Podcasting can certainly benefit from the presence or companionship of…
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Radio Dramas Reimagined – Agatha Christie
Three Radio Dramas from the past for today Murder in the Studio is a collection of three thematically related — and subject unrelated — one-act radio dramas by The Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. Written three decades apart (one from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s), these short plays were posthumously put together as a meditation on capitalism, gender, and murder. In each story, there is an acquisition, a possession, a taking. And in each story there is a reversal of the possessor’s fate, culminating in a Greek-like tragedy where a fury takes vengeance. Without giving away too much, let’s just say that the outcome is horrific. These are murder mysteries,…
