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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 2-day professional forum focuses on one of the country’s most dynamic and creative industries. Explore challenges and opportunities for local industry, including alternative funding models, marketing and distribution for iOS/Android, transmedia (multi-platform storytelling), brand-building, and design post-mortems from top local studios.
Simon Staffans: "Brilliant as it looks, I thought I’d like to know some more. Here, for your perusal as well, a brief interview I did with Christy Dena" ...
Are you ready to explore the big picture? Fiona Milburn of Transmedia NZ has compiled a handy quick-start guide to ease the plunge into transmedia storytelling. Read More »
Myles McNutt: "While Syfy’s science fiction series Defiance has a narrative mythology rivaling that of its generic predecessors, it also has a production mythology" ...
Jaime Woo: "What if instead of acting merely as an online billboard for the documentary, the web itself was the platform?"
Hugh Hart: "The makers of docs in contention for Oscar nominations talk about activating audiences after they leave the theater."
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Simon Britton: "Starting this week, MediaWave presents a multi-part series on the state of Transmedia collaborations in Australia" ...
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Te Papa is delighted to announce its summer blockbuster exhibition, Game Masters, opening 15 December 2012. Featuring over 120 playable games across arcade, consoles, and PC, including Donkey Kong...
"The TFI New Media Fund provides funding and support to non-fiction, social issue media projects which go beyond traditional screens – integrating film with content across media platforms, from video games and mobile apps to social networks and interactive websites" DRC: This fund is open to both U.S. and International producers.
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In a series of video interviews by Anna Jackson, creative producer Mark Westerby shares the challenges and rewards of working across platforms to create FixTV, Wellington's first live studio and web TV chat show.
In this video interview, Flatland director Ralph Upton and producer Adrianne Roberts take Transmedia NZ's Anna Jackson on a journey through the new multidimensional and interactive theatre work.
A great transmedia networking opportunity ...
The Creative Digital Content (CDC) Group are having their AGM at the end of the month. This is a great networking opportunity for anyone interested in Transmedia ... plus, you don't have to be a CDC member to attend. However, if you do decide to join the CDC, membership is free.
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Gamification, gamefullness and alternative reality sound like fun, but as Anna Jackson explains, they are important and serious gaming concepts."Using game design techniques and mechanics, almost any mundane activity can be made more appealing,...
MELBOURNE — Inside an enterprising Melbourne city co-working office on Bourke Street, the Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible is preparing for DocWeek, a live documentary crowdfunding event in Adelaide.
Scott Macauley: "Want to decrease press interest and the size of your audience? Then do these seven things" ...
"Two international game designers from giants of the industry, Blizzard and Valve, are presenting their experiences in gaming at Media Design School's Game Summit in February."
Meandering Margaux: "Mark Staufer (@MarkStaufer) promises a pioneering transmedia thriller with the launch of ‘The Numinous Place‘. Blending book, film and web-based narrative elements, Staufer’s quadrilogy will immerse participants in an interactive parallel world blurring traditional narrative entertainment and game play."
Haexagon Concepts: "We will soon release our second installment of the Asian Screen and provide new updates on trends and markets in Greater China and South-East Asia. Since the report will rather focus on industry insights and interconnected relationships we want to highlight specific projects mentioned within here in greater detail with direct links and videos. Hence, this post will be a small recap on what kind of transmedia projects came out during 2012 in HK."
In this month's Generator, [Tim Riley's] focused on creative entrepreneurs who make digital content and need to understand how to manage their stuff online.
It's only been six months since we started blogging for The Big Idea, but it feels like it's been an action packed half-year.
Ande Schurr interviews Melanie Langlotz, a leader in the screen industry and general manager of post house Images & Sound. She shares why a filmmaker must think like a business person, and why we must market our screen industry together.
Fiona Milburn sits down with Ian Fowler and Holly Alexander of @radical.media to find out how audiences are driving the future of storytelling.
In the latest Transmedia NZ blog, Fiona Milburn reports back from StoryWorld 2012 in Los Angeles with an interactive timeline of insights, people and links from the global transmedia community.
Buzzy Bee is taking to the airwaves, and soon you’ll be able to join him. Fiona Milburn sat down with William McKegg, the creative director behind Buzzy Bee, to find out how Lion Rock Ventures has developed a multiplatform storytelling world around this iconic Kiwi toy ...
Early bird registration is now open.
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