Episode 21: Star Wars- Episode 1: The Hype

1. Ben's Article- "What if Star Wars VII Sucks?":

• https://medium.com/cinenation-show/what-if-star-wars-vii-sucks-f9705f4e7ed2

2. Luke Skywalker, Sith Lord:

• https://medium.com/cinenation-show/luke-skywalker-sith-lord-f8a11072f246

3. Luke Skywalker, Not a Sith Lord:

• https://medium.com/cinenation-show/luke-skywalker-not-a-sith-lord-d0888b96bfdd

4. The 'Dark Side' of "Star Wars" Hype:

• http://www.statepress.com/article/2015/11/the-dark-side-of-the-star-wars-hype

5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Honest Trailer

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pegJQPIzfs4

6. NPR Story on "Spotlight"

• http://www.npr.org/2015/10/29/452805058/film-shines-a-spotlight-on-bostons-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal

CineNation Episode 8:

SXSW and Music Streaming

SXSW

• Aaron Reed

• Ice-Bound

• http://ice-bound.com/

• Mark Duplass talk

• http://sxsw.com/film/news/2015/watch-sxsw-video-2015-sxsw-film-keynote-mark-duplass

• Going out and doing it

• Most film school people aren’t competing with other film school people

• Tangerine - shot entirely on iPhone

• SXSW Interactive:

• Gimmicky

• is this the future?

https://www.oculus.com/storystudio/

http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/

-Buzzfeed experiments with couples trying to defuse a bomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZdO40p2AWQ

Music Streaming

• Spotify

• 100-200x streams vs sales

• Long tail

• Taylor Swift is opposed to the free tier of Spotify

• Lowers the expectations for the cost of music

• David Bazan

• Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal

• http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/25/8288847/taylor-swift-streaming-tidal-aspiro-jay-z

• $20/month

• high quality audio

• Taylor Swift is streaming on it

• http://time.com/3590670/spotify-calculator/

• CNN- Taylor Swift goes to Jay-Z’s service: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/entertainment/taylor-swift-jay-z-streaming-music-feat/

• If you don’t appear on spotify you risk not being heard

• When you think you have a hit, you want everyone to be able to hear the hit

• Tying streaming music back into Film

• Students are not buying films

• Why put your indie movie on a streaming service?

• Fans, is film creating fans like music does?