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Participatory Culture: YouTube

An inciting and insightful video presentation on the ethnography of YouTube by Dr Michael Wesch from Kansas State University that made me feel all warm and fuzzy about user generated content… and perhaps just a teensy bit insecure about making a living the traditional way.

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Multiplatform production quality

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 […]

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Cream of the [Interactive Narrative] Crop

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 […]

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Prime time Emmy Interactive Media finalists announced

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.

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Multiplatform revenue models

As audiences increasingly turn away from traditional content channels, producers and networks are increasingly trying on different revenue models for multiplatform content production & distribution. People expect the internet to be free.