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Late to Class Interactive

by Peter Giles on April 19, 2011

Foundation students in the Creating Experiences class created this interactive video on their second day in the course. In the starring role is the very talented Catherine Engstrom supported by Bernadette Nguyen, Marty Murphy and Benito in the AFTRS Cafe. Behind the cameras were Andrew Jenkins, Laura McGenniss and Michael Jolta.

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Dribble, Homemade and Erinaceous

homemade by Peter Giles August 5, 2010 AFTRS Foundation Student Projects

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 [...]

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Social Inettiquettes, Have you Seen Mary Jane?

Social Inetiqu by Peter Giles July 8, 2010 AFTRS Foundation Student Projects

These are the first student transmedia projects that I have posted this year, but first a bit of background. I have been teaching a course called ‘Creating Experiences’ to small groups of AFTRS Foundation students taking them through some of the skills of planning a transmedia project. In the second week of the course students [...]

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Why aren’t all filmmakers this savvy?

by Peter Giles March 25, 2010 Transmedia

This is an old presentation but a goody. Lance Weiler is a filmmaker who is ahead of his times. Here he presents a case study on the launch and distribution of his feature horror film Head Trauma and how he utilised social media to market and distribute the film. While it might be harder to [...]

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Widening World of Web Series

Streamy Awards by Peter Giles March 22, 2010 Resources

Move over Emmys,  the International Academy of Web Television has arrived and we’re now in the build up to the second Streamy Awards which will be held on the 11th April 2010. Winners of last year’s inaugural awards included Neil Patrick Harris and Joss Whedon and this year’s nominees include Lisa Kudrow, Illeana Douglas and [...]

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Blast Theory about to hit Sydney streets

by Peter Giles August 21, 2009 Transmedia

Rider Spike is the latest offering from British group Blast Theory, well known urban gamers whose projects explore locative based gaming experiences on the streets. This one is no exception and will take place in The Rocks between the 6th and 15th of February 2009.
A touchscreen computer mounted on your handlebars will guide you through [...]

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Movies on YouTube

by Peter Giles February 21, 2009 Google

YouTube have just put a deal together with major studios including CBS, Starz, Sony, Lionsgate and the BBC to show full length movies online. An interesting article examines the details an can be found on The Wrap here.
YouTube have upgraded to HD widescreen capability and some brand re-alignment has been going on to diversify from [...]

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Future of Australian TV is online?

by Peter Giles November 2, 2008 Audiences

In the US and Europe we’ve seen a lot of content starting out on the internet before migrating to TV or to new online delivery platforms – on your TiVO, PS3 or XBox360. Afterworld is an example of short content that is now showing on the Sci Fi channel but started on the internet, Sony [...]

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Obama in-game advertising

by Peter Giles October 15, 2008 Advertising

The Obama campaign has made strong use of the internet for fundraising, organising and spreading the message. The campaign has gone to a new level with the release of in-game advertising as illustrated in this screen-shot published on Gigaom recently.

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Will videogames become better than life?

by Peter Giles October 13, 2008 Gaming

TED talks just keeps ‘em coming. In the latest raft of talks from TED game designer Dave Perry talks about the history of video games, the future of the medium and speculates about when a videogame will make him cry. This talk has great visuals which map out the evolution of games over time reflecting [...]

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Education Cooking with Google Apps

by Peter Giles August 18, 2008 Academia

The NSW Education Department is now among Google’s biggest gmail clients after they recently signed up for the service. A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the NSW Education deal is one of the biggest deployments of gmail in the world. You can read the article here. Macaquarie University has also reportedly [...]

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More Broadband Less TV

by Peter Giles August 2, 2008 Academia

Another report looking at Australian media usage patterns in the wake of broadband has been released. You can download the report here. I caught Julian Thomas, one of the authors of this CCI report on the ABC’s Media Report this week and you can read the transcript here.
One of the most interesting things reported was [...]

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Mobile games in Times Square

by Peter Giles June 3, 2008 Gaming

A company called MegaPhone have just launched a public video game on MTV’s giant screen billboard in Times Square. The game is designed to bring people together in public spaces and you interact using your mobile phone as a controller. Jury Hahn is the Korean born face behind this new public spectacle and she’s profiled [...]

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Social Network meets Cable TV

by Peter Giles May 15, 2008 Disruptive

Plaxo Pulse is an interesting social networking service which, unlike Facebook, allows you to separate your personal and business contacts. It also has a sophisticated address and calendar function which are linked to all those highly addictive sharing and communications tools. News this week is that Plaxo has partnered with cable TV company Comcast to [...]

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LG15 Eqal investment

by Peter Giles May 8, 2008 Transmedia

OK we’re a bit obessed by these guys this week – this is now the third post about LG15 related things.  Seems like LG15 have undergone a re-brand and are now known as Eqal (pronounced Equal). The new names comes attached to a $5 million venture capital investment from Spark Capital.  Miles Beckett who is [...]

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LG15, where are they now?

by Peter Giles May 6, 2008 Interactive

MySpace UK has just announced a deal with the Lonelygirl15 team to make a 60-part webisode series called I Love Chieftown. This comes hot on the heels of a deal with Bebo to create the Kate Modern series and, in the style of LG15, will be highly interactive and designed to exist within the ecology [...]

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Hulu going gangbusters

by Peter Giles May 5, 2008 Audiences

All reports are that the latest online video offering from News Corporation and NBC is exceeding expectations. Although the service is currently only available in the US it’s only a matter of time before it goes global according to CEO Jason Kilar. You can read a report of his comments at MIP here. Also of [...]

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