Falling Headlong: a theatre trailer case study

I’ve talked about trailers for theatre before but a post about The rise of the ‘digital theatre’ over on A Younger Theatre has prodded me into getting all specific. By way of background, Headlong Theatre have released a short film showcasing their upcoming season: For added context there’s

Some mutual backslapping

Pete Ashton’s published the latest version of his work-in-progress book on Leanpub (I’ve mentioned this before). This version has a cast of characters and I was quite pleased, not only to make it in, but to be given this description: Chris scrapes the nonsense people like me throw

Handing over a digital project is like passing a football

A blog post by Andreas Markdalen called Calculated Errors – The Ink Trap got me thinking a little while back. It looks at what happens when you hand a project over to a client: Many times our design solutions fail following that crucial handover point, when we no longer control/curate

The value of opportunity

Hayley Squires, currently at the Royal Court Theatre with her first play was asked the other day about how she came to have her play put on at the theatre, specifically whether is was through involvement with the Young Writers Programme. She said: I didn’t do the course, I

Links for 9 April 2012

There’s been quite a lot of good stuff to read and think about over the past little while. One of my favourite articles was called What sells CEOs on social networking (don’t let the title put you off) which didn’t necessarily tell me anything new but reframed

My take on livestreaming

I couple of weeks ago I saw an interesting comment left by James Yarker of Stan’s Cafe on this post by Matthew Linley. Matthew talks about livestreaming and mentions the Guardian’s collaborations with the Royal Opera House, Roundhouse and King’s Place. James says: Call me a Luddite

There should be a Digital Capital fund

(Photo by revdode) This post follows on from my previous one about how well the Arts Council have encouraged the use of technology and digital media. It might help to read that first to see where I’m coming from, but it’s not essential. Investment in physical infrastructure This

Has the Arts Council done enough to push technology and digital media?

I’ve just been catching up on the reaction (Guardian, The Stage) to the news that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has asked Dame Liz Forgan to step down from her position as chair of Arts Council England at the end of her current term. From the press release: The next

digicaparts - emerging business models for the digital environment

The Building Digital Capacity for the Arts programme is a joint BBC Academy/Arts Council England thing that’s been running for a little while now. On Tuesday I went along to the fourth seminar in the series which focussed on emerging business models for the digital environment. I was

A quick thought on websites looking similar

Tate recently launched the beta version of their new website. I’ve not dug into it very much but, at first glance, it looks very nice. Someone on Twitter (apologies, I forget who it was and can’t find the tweet now) mentioned that it looked very similar to the