This is a blog about the movies that I see in theaters mostly. This post is appropriate since David Kirkpatrick spoke to about a thousand educators today about changes in mass media and the future of the film industry. He was a surprise special keynote this afternoon at the November Learning Building Learning Communities Conference. It was very interesting to hear all the different terms for what is happening to media these days. The message I got from it is not surprising. At this point in the "Renaissance 2.0," participatory media will drive the mass media. Any one of us can be a filmmaker and the youth is driving Hollywood more than ever. This is the reason for the remakes and adaptations of books and comic books. He passed on Harry Potter as many producers did. Once it was a huge hit with kids, it was a different story and the rights went for much more than when he had looked at it originally. Interesting.
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