Mirjam Struppek has an investigation into the variety of screens available in her Urbans Screens project: URBAN SCREENS is a concept developed by Mirjam Struppek. It investigates how the currently commercial use of outdoor screens can be broadened with cultural content. We address cultural fields as digital media culture, urbanism, architecture and art. We want … Read moreUrban Screens
Just stumbled on Conker Media’s showreel, I like this different approach to getting across your portfolio: Check out Conker Media: http://www.conkermedia.com/
Here is the blurb from Develop Mag: TIGA Cross Media Content Conference: ‘Working with Games’ at Bafta, 195 Piccadilly Tuesday 23rd October, 9.00-5.00 at the London Games Festival. The conference will feature speakers from the games, film, TV, advertising and web areas but the unifying theme will using games and games related skills to reach audiences. The … Read moreTIGA's "Cross Media Content Workshop: Working With Games"
A few posts ago I mentioned the new blog, The Extratextuals, and an (at the time) upcoming event . The session was put together by Jeff Gomez: Jeff Gomez (Moderator), CEO Starlight Runner Entertainment As the host of the seminar, PGA member Jeff will familiarize producers with the history, criteria and relevance of trans-media storytelling. … Read moreJeff Gomez's "8 Defining Characteristics of Transmedia Production"
Last November, the MIT Comparative Media Studies Department and Convergence Culture Consortium ran the Futures of Entertainment conference. Details of last years conference with podcasts are online. Registration for the next one, to be held on the 16-17th November at Cambridge, has opened. The event is described as follows: The logics of convergence culture are quickly becoming ubiquitous within … Read moreTransmedia Conference: Futures of Entertainment 2
At the beginning of their book, Digital Aboriginal: Radical Business Strategies for a World Without Rules, Mikela and Philip Tarlow set forth their manifesto: We are witnessing the birth of a new generation, described not so much by their age, as by their actions in the world. They are using the freedoms of the new economy … Read moreBarCampSydney2, unconditional participation, heterarchies, intrapreneurs, digital aboriginals and those who have Got Game
At the IAB Leadership Forum on User-Generated Content and Social Networking held on June 4th in New York, Tom Troja (VP of Marketing for Pajamas Media) had this to say about how storytelling changes in the UGC context.
On March 5th this year, ARG designer Adrian Hon presented to Google on ‘How to Make an Alternate Reality Game, Or, Perplex City: A Look Behind the Scenes’. His abstract: Alternate Reality Games not only exist on the web – they call you up, invade your TV show and fly helicopters outside of your house. … Read moreAdrian Hon's Google Presentation: How to Make an Alternate Reality Game
Ivan Askwith, Jonathan Gray, and Derek Johnson have started a group blog called The Extratextuals, which they explain in their birth post as: This is a blog about the media. However, with other blogs on television, film, and the media in general, we wanted to carve out a specific niche. So our blog will focus primarily … Read moreNew Transmedia Blog: "The Extratextuals"
One of the reasons for the paradigmatic change to cross-media world-creation is the emergence of transliterate creators. These creators are not just fans of a range of artforms, are not only versed in a range of artforms, they are versed (or developing a literacy) in the combining of a range of artforms & media platforms. … Read moreTie-In Writers and the Mono-Medium Logic Problem