The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Other ways to tell stories

A couple months back, I read about a novel from the ’60’s that wasn’t bound as a book but as individual chapters that could be read in any order.  The novel was about memory and as such the form mirrored the content’s non-linear nature.  The playfulness of form has stayed in my mind (and on my agenda).

Part of technology’s promise is that we will find new ways to express ourselves.  I definitely like some of what Jonathan Harris is doing, which is quite a bit.

Thanks Geralyn!


Here’s another experiment in telling stories, but now in One Sentence.  It’s a good way to practice your pitches, you screenwriters you.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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