DFFB Ses­sion: A Com­plete Guide to the Web Series Phe­nom­e­non with Mered­ith Burk­hold­er

16. October 2019

18:00

Short, Nar­ra­tive and Seri­al­ized:
A Com­plete Guide to the Web Series Phe­nom­e­non

- with Mered­ith Burk­hold­er

The web series phe­nom­e­non first gained atten­tion with an his­toric spon­ta­neous move­ment of inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion between 2008 and 2012. This boom result­ed in the birth of a new for­mat and a new medi­um for seri­al­ized fic­tion. Find out where this for­mat has been and where it is going as Mered­ith Burk­hold­er presents high­lights from her book, co-authored by Joël Bas­saget, Short, Nar­ra­tive & Seri­al­ized. It is based large­ly on a data­base of 6000 web series pro­duced between 1995 and 2017 ana­lyz­ing such top­ics as genre, pro­duc­tion vol­umes, glob­al speci­fici­ties, plat­forms, and bud­gets. This ses­sion will not only sharp­en your knowl­edge of a move­ment that is chang­ing the face of the enter­tain­ment indus­try, it will also kick­start your jour­ney into dis­cov­er­ing and con­quer­ing the new ter­ri­to­ries of sto­ry­telling in the dig­i­tal land­scape.

This is a joint event by DFFB, Ser­i­al Eyes and Film­net­zw­erk Berlin.

The Ses­sion will be held in Eng­lish lan­guage and it’ll also be record­ed for the IndieFilmTalk Pod­cast.

Wednes­day, 16 Octo­ber 2019, 6pm, DFFB Cin­e­ma

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