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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
As I mentioned earlier, I attended an industry jam to brainstorm creative projects that employ as many platforms as possible: Convergence Jam. A blow-by-blow report of the event has been posted on the organiser’s website, but here are my impressions. Robbie Stamp, Executive Producer of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy gave a talk … Read moreConvergence Jam Report
This is just to let you know about a couple of gigs I’ve done, got coming up: The RealTime article I was commissioned to write on new media artists doing postgraduate study is now online. Details about the TalkFiction Colloquium I’m doing a ‘reading’ of a creative work (a cross-media story) at is now online. … Read moreYep, another update about me
Italy now has a representative on our International Cross-Media Round-Table (there isn’t one, but wouldn’t that be fun?). There is definately a cross-media researcher and practitioner in Italy right now. Max Giovagnoli is an editor and presenter at Blue Channel TV, he edited the Italian Big Brother and has 3 nonfiction books out: To Write … Read moreCross-Media Practitioner & Researcher in Italy
I should mention, for those teaching or just experimenting themselves, that I’m working on a Guide to Interactive Entertainment Software. Check it out and let me know any additions you suggest.
A new sci-fi book has been given the multi-channel marketing treatment by Random House. The book, The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks, came to my attention a few weeks ago through the ARG that was created. Although it was noticed late last year, it wasn’t until recently the game came into effect. The ARG (alternate … Read moreCross-Media Traveler
Tracey Swedlow’s site, [itvt], has an interesting whitepaper on the history of enhanced television (a big area in the cross-media matrix): 2000: Interactive Enhanced Television: A Historical and Critical Perspective. It is described as follows: The outline this paper takes beyond introduction begins with an overview of market forces and important changes that occured over … Read moreiTV History