The latest issue of The Velvet Light Trap (Number 58, Fall 2006), spotlights film and TV narrative. There is a wonderful selection of papers with one by Jason Mittell: Keating, Patrick. Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives Newman, Michael Z. From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative Mittell, Jason. Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American … Read moreSpecial Journal Issue on TV Narrative
DAC, the premier international digital arts conference, will be in Perth next year with Beap. They have just announced the first stage of acceptances: The reviewing of the 230 abstracts has now been completed, and many thanks to the reviewers for the enormous task. In a process that turns out to have been highly competitive, … Read moreDAC in Australia
Here are two projects by wonderful colleagues of mine: Is Your House Killing You? was my team for LAMP. It will be on SBS soon, but at present there is a call for people to be on the TV show!: Put YOUR home under the microscope in our groundbreaking new science show ‘Is Your House Killing You?’ … Read moreIs Your House Killing You? and A Bullet Waits for You
Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) 21st Annual Conference is being held November 14th-17th on the Gold Coast. The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) represents the interests of producers on all issues that affect the business and creative aspects of independent screen production. Our annual conference is held over three days and attracts more than 650 … Read moreCROSS Sessions at SPAA
Rick Mathieson interviews Mike Benson, the Senior Vice President of Marketing for ABC Entertainment, on “multi-platform branded entertainment”. It is an audio interview about The Lost Experience from a branding perspective (which extends an earlier article on the topic too). I’ve popped some notes about each one here: Part 1: Benson spoke about how The Lost Experience helped … Read moreThe Lost Experience: Branding Perspective Interview
As with all conjured universes that have a premature ending or unpopulated grid, the Whedonverse, specifically Firefly and Serenity verse, has been persisted by fans. There are some wonderful fanfics such as the fan-made TV-series Into the Black and the live-action paromage (what I call a parody that is a homage) Mosquito. More recently there is also … Read moreThe Whedonverse Expands
MipCom has a call for works for their Mobile Content Awards: Established media companies and small innovative firms alike are responding to the rapid growth of Mobile TV and video services by producing content especially made for mobile devices. The MIPCOM Mobile TV Screenings & Awards recognise outstanding achievement in mobile film and video content … Read moreMipCom Mobile Content Awards Call for Works
I have referred to beActive’s Sofia’s Diary before as probably the most successful cross-media production for teens there is (I count it as better than Pokemon because I see this as more artistically driven). Well, beActive have a few works and they are showcasing them at MIPCOM. Here is their invite I just got emailed. … Read morebeActive at MIPCOM
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School has asked me to come in a give a lunchtime seminar on Cross-Media Entertainment. It is for practitioners across the whole school but outsiders are welcome to come too. Tomorrow at 1pm. Apologies for the late notice as I was waiting for the very sexy poster that you … Read moreTalk on Cross-Media Entertainment at AFTRS