One of the most important aspects of cross-media storytelling is having the audience move to each unit of your story. Without the cross-media or cross-story movement, your work collapses. Areas of research and practice that you can utilise are the advertising industry (motivation to buy) and hypertext rhetoric (research into hyperlinked stories). On the former … Read moreImpetus to Act
A workshop on how to create cross-platform works for kids (7-20) is currently running in Sweden. The workshop, Let’s Work with Kids!: The Third European Workshop on Children, Youth and Cross Media, targets producers, project managers and researchers in the field of TV, radio, web, and other forms of interactive media. Over the 3 days … Read moreCross-Media & Kids
Here is info about what some of the best cross-media creators are doing in Australia, from the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production that was run in Melbourne yesterday. It was great being around producers and creators who are committed and contemplate cross-media storytelling. I cannot upload my presentation, as there are still more workshops being … Read moreLAMP Update
For those who are in NY or can get there, this event seems like a ‘to-do-er’: The Media Center, ‘the nonprofit media-technology-society think tank’, will present We Media: Behold the Power of Us on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, in New York City. Leading thinkers and innovators at the intersection of media, technology and society will … Read more'We the Media' Conference
I’ve spoken about ARGs many times, and I’ve thought about having a TV series involved in an ARG, but now a group of producers are creating THE ‘alternate reality’ mix: a reality TV show about creating an ARG. Project Game Light will be launched in 2006. Here is the description: Project Game Light : The … Read moreAn innovative cross-media TV show
I’ve been participating in the ‘group-read’ of the email story: Daughters of Freya. The ‘group read’ means that everyone starts receiving the emails at the same time, and discusses the work in a forum. The email story is delivered via email (just to be clear) over a period of 3 weeks. Not much effort there, … Read moreThe Stranger in Your Bedroom
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It is with great pleasure that I announce that the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and Gary Hayes (producer of new media at the BBC for 8 years) having teamed together to conduct workshops on cross-media storytelling. They are touring Australia, running one-day workshops, residencies and ongoing mentoring. The Laboratory of Advanced Media Production, … Read moreCross-Media Labs in Australia
I just watched The Teen Choice Awards and saw the ‘v-cast’ award. V-Cast is a Verizone Wireless content site. As you can see by the nominees of the award, the content offered is bascailly a remediation of shows produced for TV: CHOICE V-CAST 24 Twenty-FourAliasAmerican DadArrested DevelopmentDesperate HousewivesExtreme MakeoverLostThe Simple Life: I The winner, as … Read moreMobile Award
Here is a snippet from a report on the Australian Entertainment Industry in the Hollywood Reporter: SYDNEY — It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the Australian media landscape is in flux as never before. So great are the shifts taking place in technology, business and regulation that one commentator refers to the situation … Read moreCross-Media Ownership and OS status