![]() Even on the talent side of the Motion Picture equations, I’ve heard the anxiety expressed more than once that owners of existing IP are worried that they won’t be able to attract “A-list” talent to develop their movie if they give them much direction. Anything else is at best distracting to your audience and can quickly feel like a betrayal. I can’t say this emphatically enough…META-STORY ™ SHOULD NEVER BE ABOUT PRODUCT PLACEMENT!! I’ve organically put rich gaming, toy, publishing and many more commercially vibrant content elements into Meta-stories ⓒ for clients but none have been put in unless they make the narrative better, plain and simple. In fact, well-done Meta-story ⓒ finds and makes available ideas, themes and sequences that should add significantly to the depth and power of the Motion Picture. Meta-story ™ development can supply the answers that organically seed-in those broader concepts without hijacking the narrative. Like some of the other formats, in motion picture, you can’t spend a moment of screen time on anything that isn’t directly and powerfully contributing to your screenplay’s narrative. For this reason, deciding when to launch this media and what story it contains should be considered carefully. Once launched, Motion Picture often becomes the dominant media that sets, or resets, story and art “vectors”. O Motion Picture - Universal human meaning explored through an epic, passive-experience, visual narrative. ![]() Meta-story™ balances those needs without compromising either creative power and integrity or downstream commercial success in other formats. TV has to find a committed audience or it’s off the air quickly. holders who may come from the world of toys or games. This is at the heart of the oft-times uneasy creative relationship between Network developers and execs and I.P. All too often I’ve seen excitement over the “context” (powers, cool action, setting, etc…) of a concept hijack the TV development into not boiling the idea down into something that is truly meaningful and lasting with its audience. In general, it is a format increasingly struggling with a slow decline in weekly “eyeballs” but here is a place where Meta-story™ really shines by finding audience in other formats who then want to experience more of the story through TV! In order to sustain a weekly or even daily visit with your story in TV, the underlying concept has to have extremely well rounded characters who have zen-like clarity in what role they play in exploring and expressing the story spine and themes of the Meta-story ⓒ. ![]() For sustained awareness and audience relationship, TV is still a big horse. ![]() O TV – Episodic exploration of characters, character interaction and relate-able human issues. ![]()
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