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Dribble
Peter Wolswinkel, Emma Paine, Akil Ahamet


Dribble.com is a community based website created to facilitate discussion and sharing between drug users. Through Dribble.com drug users can connect with one another, find tips or help, share stories. They will also be able to watch a web series named Mummies Minties, which is inspired by the stories and issues brought up by the community of online users. The website encourages users to consume drugs safely and responsibly through practical tips and by showing the real effects it can have on ones life.

Homemade
Ingrid Macauley, Santosh George, Erica Hurrel

“There is nothing like good food to bring people together”, this quote is the ethos of Homemade, which is an online cooking community. We will identify approximately two hundred popular cooking blogs on the Internet and will place homemade widgets in these sites and link clips on our YouTube channel back to Homemade. We will also have an Iphone application designed for homemade so that members can access their account and favorite places on the site when out and about. The website allows members to gain access to advice about cooking through active forums and video tutorials supported by other members who want to share their cooking pearls of wisdom. Members will post their recipes and tips, which other members can selectively take into practice. They can then comment back and rate the recipes and tips posted with chef hats. The member with the highest chef hat ratings and recommendations will win a place in the Master Chef competition.

There is a huge interest in the market for a site like this as if you love food you can watch cooking shows, buy cooking books and discuss cooking with your immediate family and friends. However there isn’t a strong online community for cooking and this is where Homemade comes in. Hungry for more?

Erinaceous
Title: Erinaceous Team: Abigail McKenzie, Lucien Jankelson, Oliver Kennedy

Tagline: where writers and artists unite to collaborate

Erinaceous is a website, a service and online community tailored for aspiring writers and animators looking to collaborate with others either to develop professional portfolios or just to further satisfy their hobby. With an inspired blend of intelligent profiling, search algorithms, and sophisticated chat and drawing palettes, users can log on and begin instant collaborations with anyone around the world. This combination asserts Erinaceous as the most effective immediate sandbox available on the web.

Mind Mapping the Faults of the Film Industry

As one of the few truly dynamic independent film producers in the US, Ted Hope has in recent years been on a crusade to identify and address problems and obstacles to indie film production. His blog Hope For Film is a treasure-trove of good shit on Story, Business, Audiences and the Future of cinema.

Recently Ted wrote n a post on Truly Free Film entitled 38 More Ways the Film Industry is Failing and it followed on from a similar post a year ago –  38 American Independent Film problems and Concerns.

These little dittyies caused quite a stir on the inter-web. From a Transmedia perspective he clearly expresses a powerfully succinct notion that:

“The film business remains a single product industry. The product may be available on many different platforms, but it is still the same thing. For such a capital-intensive enterprise to sell only one thing is a squandering of time and money.  Films can be a platform to launch many different products and enterprises, some of which can also enhance the experience and build the community.”

Similarly Ted makes another point regarding filmmakers ‘owning’ audiences which seems to tap into the intrinsic power of on-line communities and multi-platform delivery.

“Filmmakers don’t own their audiences yet (and few even attempt to).  What will happen when agents start to cut deals for their clients who have 1 million engaged fans, people who will pre-order their content, promote it passionately, and deliver more of their friends? There is a shift in the balance of power about to happen, and those that have prepared for it, amassed their followings, will be able to change the conversation significantly.”

Taking this broad collection of 38 things Ted Hope has articulated, Mike Ambs has created an online MindMap of the 38 ways the film industry s failing and opened it up to contributions from readers. Its a though provoking document that may grow into something quite comprehensive.

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Sydney Transmedia Production Seminar and Masterclass

Great to see a local Sydney event flying the transmedia flag – Metro Screen in partnership with Screen NSW presents the Transmedia Production Seminar and Masterclass hosted by ex AFTRS/LAMP student Marcus Gillezeau who created Scorched.TV (my transmedia review here)
The below is from the email notice…
Transmedia Storyteller Jeff Gomez defines transmedia as “the art of conveying messages [...]

Apply before 19 May for Multi Platform Grad Cert

We are well underway now with Australia’s (and possibly the world’s) first Multi Platform Content Graduate Certificate. AFTRS is also offering the same, even more turbo charged course for the 2nd half of this year (16 weeks part time starting July 12). This post looks at the course thus far with some student example, gives [...]

TV is Dead and Never been Better

The general consensus is that broadcast television is running itself off the proverbial cliff, beset as it is on all sides by competitors and alternatives in delivery, experience and business model – online, download, DVD box sets, file-sharing, gaming, time-shifting and the list goes on.
And yet, in contradiction, we seem to be living in the [...]

Australia’s 1st online creative Crowdfunding platform

We were contacted by the creators of FundBreak who are about to go live with Australia’s first crowd sourced funding for creative project ideas – which of course can include non-linear, transmedia projects. Alan Crabbe told me
We offer an innovative platform and social networking tool for artists, musicians, filmmakers, journalists, designers, entrepreneurs, inventors, event organisers, [...]