There is a special double episode of Criminal Intent being broadcast in Oz this Sunday that could be akin to what I think is one of the best cross-media works: the Homicide tv show and Second Shift detectives on the web. I’ll explain the Homicide work first. In the late 1990s the Homicide TV show … Read moreDetecting Cross-Media TV
Simultaneous cross-media release will be the norm. I’ve heard a few producers mention this, even the Director-General of the BBC has unveiled that their tv shows will be simulataneously available for download on the web. I thoroughly support this move and have been anxiously waiting for it for some time. When a movie is released, … Read moreCross-Media Release will be the Norm
Other types of cross-media storytelling are ‘pervasive gaming’ and ‘locative arts’. Both include the use of multiple media, usually with running through streets, GPS and other exciting tech-performance type works. The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN) is hoping to develop understanding of best-practice in this emerging area. They have called for artists, scientists, industry … Read more*A Cunning PLAN
Cross-media storytelling has a long history. One influence from the past is the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, otherwise known as ‘The Archers’. They created films that include many arts types (music, dance, painting, literature and photography), for they believed that ‘all art is one’. This confluence of arts types is part of … Read moreThe Archers Manifesto
An excellent example of ‘in-game’ (diegetic or in-story) interaction is found in the marketing of the film The Ring 2. You register an email and mobile phone number at www.7daysleft.com (we cannot under the Oz flag for some reason) and then the storyworld spills over into real life… Theres this urban legend about a video…When … Read moreGood and Scary
Channel 4 is now commissioning mobile phone content, just like TV shows. They’re looking for: – Innovative applications and formats that use the mobile platform – Unique made-for-mobile shows and content that are un-related to broadcast output – Video content to complement your broadcast commission, for example extra scenes or ‘mobisodes’. They have also launched … Read moreChannel 4 Commission Mobile Content
Ziff Davis Media Game Group have finished their annual survey: ‘Digital Gaming in America’. The Group are producers of print and online brands such as Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer Gaming World, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, 1UP.com, and specials including Pocket Games. They commissioned the Strategy Group to survey US households. 1,558 people were polled from … Read moreMobile Gamer Stats
You’ve probably heard on books on mobiles being very popular in Japan, but now there are entire books available for download as a podcast. The difference between these and audio books? Evo Terra of PodioBooks.com coined the term podiobooks to describe ‘serialized audio books which are made available in podcast format’. This is another technology … Read morePodcast Books
Sony Japan is jumping on providing manga comics on mobile phones. Rather than just provide the images, Celsys’ has developed a program, Comic Surfing, that shows each frame and slowly surfs over the whole comic, makes the phone vibrate on action scenes and will have sound. A video on the comics is online at Wireless … Read moreManga on Mobiles
I was asked to keep news about this upcoming project quiet, but considering it has been covered in the Hollywood Reporter, and the producers were the special guests at the recent mo:life event, I think it is safe to talk. Jim Shomos and Paul Baiguerra of Global Dilemma, have created the ‘world’s first “dramedy” to … Read moreThe 3 Channel Rule