Some great moments from travelling that have stuck with me: Watching kids learning to swim in a pool. One child wanted to impress his older brother by being “big”. For him, an adult was someone who could jump into the deep end and hold their breath underwater. My Auntie ponders if caterpillars are aware of … Read moreMy Journey Hasn't Stopped
One neat trick that designers of cross-media works can do is unfortunately heavily underutilised: referring to material that already exists. It takes alot of work to create a cross-media work that has many websites, TV series, comics and so on, but you needn’t create the universe in 7 days…it has already been done. Direct audiences … Read moreSeek & Find Art
Top producers in film, TV, mobile entertainment, advertising and so on have contributed to a report on Hollywood over the next 75 years. The Future of Entertainment has the following amazing contents: Chris Albrecht The HBO exec on driving home its brand message while innovating programming. Jim Banister The veteran onine executive says the future … Read moreLeaders Direct Our Future
A report on attracting audiences produced by Morton Smyth Limited is available online. [T]he report is for organisations that want to attract a broad public, and are willing to go through a process of change to achieve it. It focuses on what really makes the difference in audience development and reveals what organisations most need … Read moreReport on Attracting Audiences
There is event coming up in Oz that should be an interesting screen industry event. Melbourne On Screen is happening Nov 11-19 but does not have a live site yet. It is described as ‘Australia’s largest celebration of Film, TV and New Media’. At present you can sign up to receive info when it is … Read moreMelbourne On Screen Event
I’ve spoken before about a new cross-media project that was being developed here in Oz. Well, it has been launched. Forget the Rules is a cross-media project that falls on the extreme left side of my cross-media continuum: it provides the same content over multiple platfroms, rather than offering different content over platforms. It is … Read moreForget the Rules launched
I haven’t been online for a bit because I’ve been trekking through the desert! To celebrate my birth day I went to Central Australia to hear stories of Creation Time. I’ve been to Alice Springs, Uluru, Kata Tjuka, Darwin and Kakadu for the last couple of weeks. I haven’t really been in the rough since … Read moreHonouring Creation Time
I just watched the SBS debate about the Aust film industry, which is available online, as I’ve mentioned before. Here are a couple of quotes applicable to the cross-media concern: PENNY CHAPMAN, PRODUCER: The future of this industry is not cinema and it’s not free-to-air television. It’s that myriad of platforms and it means that … Read moreSBS Reel Drama
Gary Hayes, who was the Senior Producer and Development Manager of the BBC for 8 years and who is currently the Director of LAMP, has a blog. If you want to be privvy to the thoughts and insights of a producer who has his finger firmly on the pulse of the future, subscribe to his … Read moreGary has a blog
A special report on IPTV is now available (for a fee). IPTV: Broadband meets broadcast The network television revolution is ‘an influential independent study presenting the key issues that every senior executive and decision maker involved in media and communications needs to know and understand about the future of television. This comprehensive 200 page report … Read moreIPTV Report