Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, 43 years old, is a real communication genius and an internationally renowned multitasking creator, scriptwriter, director and producer of cinema and television. The son of television producers, he spent his days in television studios, starting very early on his brilliant career as a scriptwriter (among others, he’s responsible for the scripts of [...]
September 27th 2009 was the airdate of the first episode of Heroes’ season 4. But Heroes is much more than a simple TV series. According to Jesse Alexander, its executive producer, as well as the producer of Alias and Lost: “Heroes was always conceived as a transmedia concept. This series is an integral part of [...]
Today, the talents of content creation and production need a sign and some support. Indeed, it’s extremely difficult for independent producers to finance innovative content by themselves.
This is unfortunately well known by all professionals in France and internationally, regardless of the media for which their creations are destined: cinema, television, fun interactive universes…
The big content [...]
TRUE BLOOD
The TV series TRUE BLOOD, whose 2nd season is coming to an end these days, is an adaptation of a series of novels by Charlaine Harris entitled Sookie Stackhouse (after the eponymous heroine). The script is by Academy Award-winning Alan Ball, the man who wrote American Beauty and the TV series Six Feet Under, [...]
I attended a fascinating conference in June organized by Laurence CORROY, assistant professor of information and communication studies at the “New Sorbonne” (University of Paris III). Here are a few keys to understanding the success of the French TV series “Plus belle la vie”.
“Plus belle la vie”, a series launched in late 2004 on France [...]
Good stories are serial, meaning they develop in the form of episodes that may follow a linear or nonlinear progression and reprise or rather continually renew one another. Everyone knows American series like 24, Lost, Heroes etc. These “cliffhangers” leave us in such intense suspense that we can’t wait to see what happens next.
We even [...]
