Next week I’ll be talking about KCDC’s cross-platform projects in front of and with my peers. The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) is conducting a series of one-day seminars in the east coast cities of Australia, aiming to ignite producers of traditional media into taking their properties across platforms. The Brisbane seminar will be held at QUT on Friday May 1. Full details here.
Spooks Interactive is a rich immersive online extension to the BBC’s flagship drama about MI5; co-produced by UK’s Kudos Film & TV and Brisbane’s Hoodlum. When ABC air Season 6 of Spooks (commencing Monday 6 April), fans will be able to log on and continue the spy drama in their own time, outside the appointed television timeslot. Read More »
I’ve been intrigued reading about the growing number of older people online. With the prospect of a dramatically ageing population looking us squarely in the eye, it’s exciting to think about ways we can engage an older audience. Read More »
Last week I attended my first SPAA conference. I went with Louise Alston, director of upcoming feature film Jucy (that I’m producing). We stayed at the OTT Palazzo Versace and crammed in as many meetings and sessions as we could.
Today I spent some time with Dale Rankine brainstorming ways we could evolve the delightful Dojo Monkey into a multiplatform experience for kids. Read More »
Gerd Leonhard recently posted about the near future becoming what he describes as an attention economy. He suggests some interesting models for obtaining this attention, and they’re models we’re seeing in various forms across multiplatform and ARG entertainment.
It will be fascinating in the coming weeks, months and years, to see how the stakes are raised in this new economy. Credibility, it seems, is the new black.
Charades, an original concept multiplatform comedy series I dreamed up, attracted some funding from Screen Australia in their Cross-Platform Development round this week.
The series takes a black comic look at the gentrification of an escort service by its owners: brother/sister team Leeanne and Rod. It’s designed to play out over television and broadband platforms, and is being developed in these early stages by Marissa Cooke and me.
Lots of multiplatform projects utilise actor to user webcam style video to tell their stories. One of the things I’m most proud of in the multiplatform work I’ve done is its high video production quality. There are many factors to take into consideration when planning to tell your story across platforms. Not least of which is the audience.
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When I first started working in multiplatform entertainment it was pretty tough finding live examples of the kind of work we were making. The first project was daunting… exclusive content 6 days a week for 21 weeks.
On top of that, our production schedule had to fit in with the production & broadcast schedule of the TV show we were extending online, and we were on the opposite side of the world.
Who Killed Tom King???
One of the projects I worked on at Hoodlum has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Emmys.
Hoodlum was contracted by ABC and worked with the Lost story team and producers to create an immersive online prequel to Season 4 as part of ABC’s global communications strategy.
Will we hear more from Sam Thomas?
