Transmedia NZ supports the ongoing development of New Zealand’s Transmedia production community, creating opportunities for collaboration and innovation, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas.
The Team:
Anna Jackson is currently undertaking a joint PhD at The University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland, researching innovation and change in New Zealand’s documentary production ecology.
Fiona Milburn is a partner in WireFrame Ltd which specializes in visual effects, transmedia, and technology based content for traditional and emerging platforms. 
This weekend, hundreds of teams of budding filmmakers around the country will write, shoot, cut and hopefully survive making a short film - all within the space of 48 hours. 
Rebekah Foote: "Siobhan O’Flynn (University of Toronto) was in Auckland for the Screen Edge Forum last week, speaking in panels about Transmedia narratives"...
FM: Here's Rebekah's update on Siobhan's Marker workshop which followed on from the Screen Edge Forum. 
Andrew Motion: A soundtrack to digital texts claims to 'enhance the e-reading experience', but how will my latest novel, Silver, fare with sound effects? 
Workshop Description: This Saturday afternoon workshop will enable you to apply the thinking around Transmedia storytelling to your own projects through looking at case studies and practical applications.
When: Saturday 5th May 2012 Where : AUT University, Room WF713, Level 7, WF Building, 42 Wakefield St, Auckland City What times: 1pm - 3:30pm (light refreshments provided) Who’s tutoring: Siobhan O'Flynn, Senior Lecturer, University of Toronto 
"Certainly New Zealand is way down the list when it comes to understanding, let alone implementing, online strategies with traditional media. However this is going to change – and quickly"...
FM: This article is relevant to all content creators, not just advertisers, as social TV and second screen viewing behaviours offer creative opportunities for all of us. 
Alex Lee: "It is a meeting place for local and international industry. We bring international speakers and guests to meet local filmmakers, to hear about projects, to view works and to sample NZ hospitality"... 
Show me Shorts: "Here we’ll take a look at some short films you can find online that we find interesting and try to give some perspective, background, or at least some (hopefully) relevant anecdotes about the films we discuss on the 1st of each month ."
April: Surrealism, Art and Animation 
Now available free, it is a textbook for creating participatory documentaries using social media.
Downloadable document: http://geniwate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/part-doc-cookbook.pdf Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
This special one day programme culminating the DeSForM2012:Meaning.Matter.Making conference, brings together leaders from design and industry to explore and debate such topics as Interaction Design, Transmedia, Technology and Entertainment, Immersive Environments and Digital Design, Fabrication, and Manufacture... [New Zealand based] MiniMonos wants to bring more little monkeys into kids’ lives, raises €1 million![[New Zealand based] MiniMonos wants to bring more little monkeys into kids’ lives, raises €1 million | Transmedia NZ | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/rNRll84AMRQ5Bw1YkMBYdjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
MiniMonos, a New Zealand-based 'green' game development startup, has raised 1 million euros about a year after launching its eco-friendly virtual world for kids in public beta and six ...
Amanda Lin Costa: "Traditionally, there were three main types of distribution for the work of independent filmmakers: theatrical, broadcast and straight to DVD. Most filmmakers hoped for a combination of all three.
But everything has changed. The digital online world has opened up new avenues of distribution including video on demand, live streaming, and mobile and tablet applications"... Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
"The New Zealand Game Developers Association Conference is a one-day action-packed conference for professional and indie game developers on Saturday 19 May. The conference pulls no punches, with experienced presenters telling it like it really is."
Saturday, 19 May 2012 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Media Design School $40/$20 (student) |
Gamefroot will enable users to create their own playable 2D interactive games, uploading and manipulating characters, backgrounds, soundtracks on hand-held devices as well as home computers... 
Creative New Zealand: "Welcome to Optimise Insights, our e-newsletter with the latest news and tips on how to make the most of your online marketing, and updates from our online marketing capability programme, Optimise." 
Anna Jackson: "‘Mind the Gap’ was the final session of the recent 3 day Screen Edge Forum event. This lively panel discussion was focused on how to address the gap in documentary funding and development which is affecting the future of documentary production in New Zealand."
Anna tweeted this session live as Transmedia NZ. 
To answer this question we’ve got a panel of three very inspiring and creative individuals: Siobhan O’Flynn [pictured] , Jessica Yurasek and Toa Fraser... 
"Orly Ravid, founder and co-executive director of The Film Collaborative, shares ten tips that all filmmakers should know about the tricky world of digital distribution." 
PopAR books are made and marketed by a US company but the software that powers them was developed by [New Zealand company] MindSpace Solutions Limited... 
Arnau Gifreu Castells: "Mixing documentary (non-fiction) and game (fiction) seems a strategy that many interactive documentary producers are considering, because the fact of reality combined with a structure that includes the users and put themselves at the heart of the action, creates a much more hyper and immersed scenario for the interactive documentary and its participants"...
Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
The Arts Foundation is building a crowdfunding website that it predicts will raise millions every year upon its launch in September, with a charitable twist...
FM: For more information, also read MCH's "Crowdfunding for the arts ... http://www.mch.govt.nz/news-events/news/crowdfunding-arts
[The image above is from the MCH article.] 
You aren’t famous until someone’s mama knows who you are – Chris Rock
Being successful on YouTube requires talent, luck and persistence. But as The Social Life shows, simply trying to create a hit is its own reward. Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
"Why talk about the HTML5 standard, about Flash, about programming in a [i-Docs] symposium about interactive documentaries? Because in the digital world the technology moulds the content. The narrative possibilities will sooner or later clash with the technological ones. The distance between what is imagined and what is produced is marked by the latter."
DRC: A look at 3 editors for interactive content: Popcorn Maker, Klynt, and 3WDOC. You'll find the slideshow that accompanies this discussion here. Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Struggling art students, century-old galleries and New York pop-culture historians are all benefiting from Kiwi business 3d Ltd...
idealog: The company uses high quality digital animation to pioneer 3D art galleries on website exhibbit.com. |
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