A groundbreaking interactive music video for music icon Bob Dylan's 1965 single 'Like a Rolling Stone' has been released. The video, built as a multi-media experience, allows fans to connect with the song like never before.
Created in partnership with Interlude and produced by Pulse Films and Walter Pictures, the video allows viewers to play an active role in the story of the music video. The experience begins as soon as the user presses play where they are instantly given the ability to surf 16 difference 'TV channels' within the video in real-time–no one version of the video is the same.
The interchangeable 'channels' are made up of iconic American TV formats and recognizable talent including 'Pawn Stars' from the History Channel, Derrick Ashong of Fusion TV, comedian Marc Maron, 'The Price is Right' with Drew Carey, Jonathan and Drew Scott of 'Property Brothers', 'Girl Code' on MTV, actor Simon Rex, eccentric Detroit rapper Danny Brown, and 'EXTRA' with Mario Lopez.
The video corresponds with the Columbia/Legacy Recordings release of Dylan's The Complete Album Collection Volume 1. This CD boxed set contains 35 studio titles (including the first-ever North American release of 1973's "Dylan" album on CD), 6 live albums, 2-CD "Side Tracks," and a hardcover book featuring new album-by-album liner notes by Clinton Heylin with a new introduction by Bill Flanagan. "Side Tracks" brings together for the first time two discs worth of previously released non-album singles, tracks from "Biography" and other compilations, songs from films and more.
Vania Heymann directed via Pulse Films.
To connect with the video, click here.
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More