Lisa Salem reports - At Power to the Pixel, I asked Arin Crumley and M Dot Strange the same three questions:
- How do you see your relationship with your audience?
- How do you integrate your audience into your lifestyle?
- How do you compartmentalize your audience community into the big picture of what you’re doing?
I was curious to see how they were going to interpret them. Arin‚Äôs answers turned into a 90 minute thought-trail (I‚Äôd like to call it a thought-experiment but I guess strictly speaking I can‚Äôt). In his first answer, he muses about what is ‚Äòaudience‚Äô, what is ‚Äòprivacy‚Äô and what is ‚Äòon‚Äô and ‚Äòoff‚Äô the web? He also touches on something else I‚Äôve been wondering about - how you go from ‚Äòherd mentality‚Äô to ‚Äòhive mind‚Äô? Because it was such a long conversation, I‚Äôm posting it in three parts. ‚ĶI‚Äôm hoping to be asking others these questions along the way too. Read HERE for Arin‚Äôs bio. LISA SALEM set out to walk the whole of LA pushing a baby-stroller with a video-camera attached to the end of it, facing inwards. When people approached her, she invited them to walk with her while she videoed their conversations. She posted those videos to a blog and in the process attracted a large and intrigued audience to what she was doing. Since then, Lisa’s been looking at the process of audience-building in detail. She lives in London now and when not working on her film-portrait of Los Angeles “WALK LA WITH ME”, she runs workshops that help filmmakers be more independent.
