The Audience Universe (Indie Films)
For my final project at Parsons this semester, I built something I've been thinking about for a while — a non-linear film distribution interface I'm calling The Audience Universe. The idea: filmmakers and entertainment networks don't just need a map of where platforms are. They need to know if the temperament is right. Is your film's emotional weight aligned with who that platform actually reaches? So I built a 4-plane constellation scatter — plotting 30 film festivals, OTT platforms, grassroots screening communities and digital platforms across two axes: Audience Maturity (Y) and Audience Intimacy (X). Stars are colour-coded by emotional weight. You click one, get the story of that platform, click through to a split-screen geographic map, tap a location pin, and land on the platform's contact or submission page. The whole thing runs on JavaScript + Mapbox GL JS. Three files. A lot of debugging. What pushed me to build this specifically? A few things colliding: - Wo...
