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Crowd Financing: The Saviour Of Short Film?

By Tom Saunter | Published: November 12, 2010

Here’s an exploration of how young filmmakers are turning to the web to translate their concepts into capital, by means of a case study. Lucy Tcherniak, a very talented friend of mine, has spent the last 18 months working on ‘Dominic’, her Psycho-Noir short film set in an English gentlemen’s club in the 1950s. How […]

Posted in Film, Web | Also tagged crowd funding, crowdsourcing, entrepreneur, Film, innovator, movie, Music, perks, production, profits, rights, shares, short film | 2 Responses

Applying McLuhan

By Tom Saunter | Published: July 22, 2009

I begin with McLuhan, whose Laws of Media or Tetrad offers greater insights for Mobile AR, sustaining and developing upon the arguments developed in my assessment of the interlinking technologies that meet in Mobile AR, whilst also providing the basis to address some of this man’s deeper thoughts. The tetrad can be considered an observation […]

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Virtual Reality

By Tom Saunter | Published: May 30, 2009

AR is considered by some to be a logical progression of VR technologies (Liarokapis, 2006; Botella, 2005; Reitmayr & Schmalstieg, 2001), a more appropriate way to interact with information in real-time that has been granted only by recent innovations. Thus, one could consider that a full historical appraisal would pertain to VR’s own history, plus […]

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