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Telling Stories for the Web: 5 Emotionally Affecting Shorts

This blog originally appeared over on flixlist.com, a site aggregating some of the best in freely available video online. Here I take a look at some great short films and dissect how they were able to engage an audience under all of the constraints that come with the web.

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Building Characters 2.0

Matt Damon Good Shepherd

I have recently talked a lot about great writing in modern media, using Mad Men and Battlestar Galactica as examples. Today I want to look at one of the core aspects of those articles - Character - but I want to do so in light of my last post - a discussion on the impacts of technology and business on entertainment.

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