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Case Study: Pandemic / HiM with Lance Weiler

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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This panel will example Lance Weiler’s Pandemic, a storyworld experience consisting of film, mobile, online, social gaming and data visualization combined to tell the story of a strange pandemic outbreak. The project debuted this past January at the Sundance Film Festival as an official selection within the New …

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Finding Your Inner Trans: “Afterworld” Case Study

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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A walk-thru of the award winning Sci-Fi series “Afterworld” will provide a glimpse into one of the first original IP transmedia projects. A discussion lead by the producer and writer of the series, which included interactive components and video game, will include what worked (and what didn’t) in …

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Laughter From Nowhere: A History of Audiences, Synthetic and Real

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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A discussion with game design and cross-media entertainment pioneer Kevin Slavin, co-founder of Area/Code.

From the 2011 Cross-Media Forum

Kevin Slavin, Chairman and co-Founder of Area/Code
In 2005, Kevin Slavin co-founded Area/Code Entertainment (acquired by Zynga in 2011) which pioneered new forms of game design and cross-media entertainment with clients including …

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Building Aspirational Storyworlds with Jeff Gomez

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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A generation is rising that has come to expect entertainment content that is “alive,” responsive and fully engaging. But few of us are giving it to them. In this provocative keynote talk, Jeff Gomez, the world’s leading producer of highly successful transmedia franchises, will forward bold ideas on …

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Case Study: NFB Canada Interactive Projects

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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NFB Canada has become renowned for its portfolio of innovative, interactive documentary stories that explore world topics through an artistic lens. Hugues Sweeney presents a series of the projects featured on their platform
NFB.ca/interactive/ ONF.ca/interactif

From the 2011 Cross-Media- Forum

Hugues Sweeney, Sr. Producer, Interactive Production, NFB Canada
After studying …

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Cross-Media Financing

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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Creating cross-media projects demands a whole new set of collaborators and finance partners from across the media industries. This session examines potential new alliances and partnerships with online networks, multiplatform broadcasters, brands, agencies and other new financiers.

From the 2011 Cross-Media Forum

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Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-Chief, Filmmaker Magazine
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I’m a Transmedia What? with Brian Clark

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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From multimedia to transmedia and interactive to immersive, innovations in technology have driven experiments in storytelling … but also an explosion in fuzzy new jargon. What you learned in film school (but not only at film school) is actually all you really need to know, because all of …

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Extending Your Story with Andrea Phillips

by Website Update on May 11, 2011

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Moving from single-media to transmedia storytelling requires a new mindset and a new creative process. Andrea Phillips walks you through the possibilities and pitfalls.

From the 2011 Cross-Media Forum
Andrea Phillips, Deus Ex Machinatio
Andrea Phillips is an award-winning transmedia writer and game designer. She has worked on projects like Perplex …

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