1. Technologies of Storytelling:
New models for movies
Henry H. Perritt, Jr.

2. Technology’s wake-up calls
Faster processors
Increased storage capacity
Expanding network bandwidth

3. Relative disabilities
Recorded music
Same wake-up calls
Reduced capital costs
Marginal cost, and therefore, price approaching zero
Studios’ heads in the sand
Movies
Much higher capital costs for human capital
Large sunk costs still likely
Innovative efforts to explore new channels: Hulu, Netflix

4. A new three-legged stool
Digital exhibition in movie theaters
Internet browsers—fixed and mobile-- as a TV sets
Videogames as platforms for narrative movies

5. New tables for indies New opportunities Legal issues
Collaboration through crowd-sourcing and Open Source code
Who owns what?
Serialization to reduce the capital costs
Copyright and trademark protection for characters and long-phase story lines
Getting the money to the table
Mitigating transaction costs of offering investment opportunities

6. Is the tail wagging the dog?

7. Is the tail wagging the dog?
Too much on
Narrative principles?
Stages of production?
“Facts” in consumption section
Enough on
New possibilities?
New opportunities for revenue?
IP discussion at the end, as now, or as part of serialization section?