I mentor film & TV practitioners in cross-media creation at the Laboratory of Advanced Media Production, LAMP, part of the Australian Film, TV and Radio School (AFTRS). We’ve got a couple of videos and podcasts of some talks by the in-house and guest mentors. Just so you know which mentor is me, I’m in the pic! Enjoy. LAMP Promos Subscribe … Read moreLAMP Videos & Podcasts
Two key events that address cross-media entertainment from an industry and academic perspective are happening this year. One is in Italy, the other in Amsterdam. Cross-Media #1 is being held on March 21st in Roma. Here are the details (in Italian!): Cross-media #1 è il primo evento in Italia dedicato alla comunicazione cross-mediale. Una giornata di … Read moreTwo Key Cross-Media Events
Fresh from the The Convergence Newsletter is news that the Broadcast Education Association’s 2006 convention is on “convergence”: Convergence Shockwave: Change, Challenge and Opportunity. It runs from April 26-29 in Las Vegas. There are over 20 sessions dedicated to discussing convergence in many forms: content, management, advertising, culture, technology, curriculum and teaching. There are two … Read moreConvergent Journalism & Education Convention
Mediamatic are running a machinima workshop on the 14-17th March and lecture on the 16th March in Amsterdam. workshop: In this workshop traditional film making techniques are combined with real-time scripting within a virtual environment. Participants will be guided through Machinima production process by experts from the fields of gamedesign and animation. Besides technical instructions … Read moreMachinima Workshop & Lecture
I’ve created a page on my new wiki with a description of some of the most used terms people use when referring to cross-media. I’ve tried to explain how they relate and when they don’t. It is not a comprehensive list of all the terms and their meanings. It is also not my personal list of terms … Read moreCross-Media Terms
It’s OK! Don’t panic. This post isn’t gone, just moved (as of 10th Nov 2007) to: http://www.christydena.com/online-essays/arg-stats/
Yahoo Videogames has just started a weekly feature on film and game convergence: Hollywood Byte. “The Hollywood Byte makes a weekly visit to the converging world of video games and traditional media.” Each week they interview a director. Unfortunately, they do not supply a top-level link, only direct links. Here is what they’re done so far: … Read moreFilm & Game Convergence
Excellent line-up at sagasnet: Developing Interactive Entertainment Workshop Headed by: Greg Roach / Guest Speaker (on ARG): Dave Szulborski/ March 03 2006 – March 09 2006, Academy for TV and Film Munich, Germany In this intensive workshop the relationship between storytelling, visual media techniques, game design and interactivity will be explored in depth. Participants will … Read moreSome great interactive narrative workshops
I’ve still got UGC (user-generated content) on my mind as I’m writing an article on the topic at the moment. Something I forgot to mention in my last UGC post: Australia’s “multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster”, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), is starting a UGC site called Freeload. It launches on 20th Feb. Freeload will bring together, … Read moreUGC & Broadcasters in Oz
Tracey Swedlow, of [itvt], has put a few short videos of talks given by top interactive tv producers online. They are all relevant to CME design: Brightcove’s VP of advertising products and strategy, Adam Gerber, talks about enabling the producer in a fragmented market John Davis, president of Eco-Nova Productions, and Daniel Myrick,president of Gearhead … Read moreVideos about CME issues