StoryAlity #153 – Film Production Courses vs. (so-called) `Film Theory’
My Response to Richard Raskin’s (excellent) short essay, in the SRN Newsletter #2 (July 2018)
My Response to Richard Raskin’s (excellent) short essay, in the SRN Newsletter #2 (July 2018)
Some `StoryAlity Theory’ research tools: artificial-writers, videogames, agent-based models, interactive-documentaries – etc etc
An artificial-writer computer program I created, called “The Robo-Raconteur”, which uses The StoryAlity Theory applied to movies (see my 2016 PhD thesis for more). The program creates – and then selects – Movie Pitches, demonstrating the algorithmic and evolutionary nature of creativity, (and BVSR).
On `the Anna Karenina principle’ (Diamond 1997) and movie success.
The holarchy of StoryAlity Theory. Lots of smaller ideas that combine to make a whole new idea.
A recap of the ASPERA 2014 conference: `Screen Explosion’.
A filmed PowerPoint presentation of a paper: “Weapons of Mass Instruction: Memetic Engineering and Directed Biocultural Evolution” (40 mins) given by JT Velikovsky at the `Initiating Change by Design’ Symposium, at University of Western Sydney in 2014.
An analysis of how movie pitches (hybrid memes) work.