Posts Tagged ‘storytelling’
This year the Women in Communications association celebrates 100 years! I’ll be keynoting the conference today in my hometown of Seattle.
One bit of information I’ll be sharing (in the spirit of storytelling) is that my parents first new I was going to do something with communications when I would purposely get lost in grocery stores so I could say my name on the loud speaker to find my parents.
How did you first know you were interested in communications?
A friend of mine who is an independent filmmaker routinely rants against the millions that Hollywood studios spend to create hollow celluloid experiences. You don’t need any of that, he insists, to make a great movie.
I call his preferred his brand of no-budget, video filmmaking “twig and mirror.”
On his recommendation a while ago, I went to see a screening at the Brook Theater in Brooklyn of “Flooding with Love for the Kid,” billed as a “one-man cinematic war” by Zachary Oberzan (http://zacharyoberzan.com) “Flooding” is his faithful adaption of David Morrell’s “First Blood.” Oberzan plays all the characters, using only his 220-square-foot apartment for props and location and a total budget of $96.
One of the great pleasures of watching the film is watching the bars on Oberzan’s bedroom window transform into prison bars, or a deconstructed house plant turn into the backwoods of Kentucky where Rambo eludes the…
About this blog
Lisa Chen and Lisa Witter
are the authors of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to
Reach Them. They are also both
senior strategists at Fenton Communications, the nation’s largest public
interest communications firm. [