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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Some thoughts on what the creative media industries are: http://bit.ly/Ud1Xh from Triston Wallace at the UK's lead body for training in the audiovisual industries.
"Traditionally the creative media industry is split into different categories - Film, TV, Radio, Photo
Imaging, Publishing, Computer Games, Advertising, etc. The boundaries and divisions of these
seemingly ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
We've just completed our first lab specifically to explore Channel 4's programme for new kinds of public service media, 4iP. It was commissioned by Northern Film and Media and held in the spectacular Turbine Hall of Newcastle's CastleGate Centre.
As part of the preparation for it, I asked one of the ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
We’re now able to invite applications the first UK Crossover in 2009.
Crossover Play will explore new forms of entertainment for digital media: the relationship between play and narrative, formats dependent on user contributions, mobile or location based entertainment with a broadcast component. And of course, games: social and casual games, ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Pact, the trade association for UK independent producers, and NESTA today released a range of tools designed to make it easy for TV and Film producers to work with digital producers on convergent or “multi-platform” projects. The tools include legal templates that make it easy for producers to kick off ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
We're now looking for participants for this year's Crossover programme.
Crossover is an extraordinary series of ‘innovation labs’ for creative professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds: game developers, tv and film producers, web designers, animators, theatre practitioners and others. Each Crossover lab is an immersive, five day incubator fostering new ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
In Göteborg for the launch of Crossover Nordic at Lindholmen Science Park, my presentation was preceded by a talk from Michael Gubbins, Editor of Screen International.
His theme was the inevitable shift from theatres and DVD to digital download as the primary means of distribution of feature films. To date, Hollywood’s ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Unexpected Media has had an extraordinarily busy couple of months including a visit to Winnipeg to run a workshop for the National Screen Institute of Canada, a "meet the players" session at the European Media Event in Brussels, three Innovation Labs for the BBC (with one more still ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
What is Tim Wright up to?
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
We've been working with Jon Kingsbury at NESTA to support the development of a new programme designed to encourage innovation in the distribution of film. In a first phase Unexpected Media facilitated a workshop to help define the scope of the project and inform the drafting of the 'request ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Meet the Players was part of the European Media Event, held in Brussels between 3th of and 8th of March.
The aim of the week is to turn a spotlight on the independent documentary sector and it's relation to the public broadcasters, but also to try to draw attention ...
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