The SBS Insight program has run a discussion on the state of the Australian Film industry. Reel Drama will be broadcast on Tuesday 13th September at 7.30pm and then repeated on Friday 16th September at 1pm. I was interviewed for the program and put on stand-by to fly up, but wasn’t on the panel in … Read moreDiscussion on Aust Drama
Australian TV is experimenting with cross-media, but not in the way you think. A popular gardening/renovation show, Backyard Blitz, had a ‘simulcast’ show (ep.13) on Sunday 4th September in Melbourne on Channel 9. The show was simulcast over TV and a magazine. The content? Smell. When presenters discussed flowers on the show you could also … Read moreCross-media Smell!
The program for The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE2005) is now online. It looks like a great mix of subjects (they haven’t listed the speakers unfortunately). I did plan to submit but I didn’t get time to finish a paper. I plan to attend though. It is on the 23-25 November in Sydney, this … Read moreInteractive Entertainment Program Up
Two keen observers of audiences that I admire, Joseph Jaffe and Steve Rubel, have started a weekly podcast — Across the Sound — to discuss new marketing, media and PR. I like the way the blog posts are designed so that you can enter questions before the podcast and comments after it as well.
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