I’ve realised that I was trying to push this project in way too many directions. In the end I’m making an independent feature film. There will be a lot of promotional material attached to the film, much of it on digital platforms but the primary product is a feature film. I’ve got so many other projects on the boil that are completely suited to digital platforms by their nature that it seems foolish to try and force digital components to sit as part of the core product.
The X Media Lab has been an incredibly valuable experience. The mentors and other project teams added so much to my project. Great ideas like making The Billionaire’s Sleep an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical to a melodramatic TV series for the Hong Kong market. I’ve also had the opportunity to talk with several production companies in Bombay about investment and production opportunities. I’m going to spend the next couple days writing up all my notes and will post again shortly on where I’m taking the story.
Rob,
you’ve picked a very vivid, very dramatic piece to work with. it has infinite scope for drama and story telling and i think all the time spent at the Cross Media Lab will def allow you to sort out the story a bit more (once you have a visual framework and setting in mind)