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What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (via smarterplanet)

cinefragma — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:13:01 -0400

What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

(via smarterplanet)

Game Changers - What’s the future of Gaming? “The image...

cinefragma — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:16:40 -0400

Game Changers - What’s the future of Gaming?

“The image of the 1990s’ teenage gaming geek is at odds with today’s fast-changing and thriving gaming market. A broadening of both the type of games played and the hardware through which they are consumed has led to a flourishing and expanding gaming audience. From the soaring popularity of mobile games such as Angry Birds, to the immersive experiences of the big budget AAA titles, how is the industry changing shape, and where is it going?” Read the complete article

(Source: Christoph Zeh & Nigel James - GFK)

A Total Disruption: Ondi Timoner’s Portal for...

cinefragma — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:26:00 -0400

A Total Disruption: Ondi Timoner’s Portal for Innovators

(Source: Kickstarter)

“A TOTAL DISRUPTION, has multiple series about innovators and entrepreneurs who are using technology to transform our lives. The channel is an invitation to participate in our up-coming documentary of the same name. A TOTAL DISRUPTION the feature will pull the camera up to look at this tectonic revolution and how it is transforming our lives, economy, and where we’re headed from here through the eyes of the innovators heading this change.”

Driving Community to your Content (Source: YouTube) You need...

cinefragma — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:19:00 -0400

Driving Community to your Content

(Source: YouTube)

You need your content to be present and optimised for all devices, all the time, wherever users may be. How do you bring your content and community together? Is it magic … or method? Here we examine how transmedia experts — including gaming industry greats — create addictive engagement experiences across screens.

Andrea Phillips on Transmedia Storytelling in her book A...

cinefragma — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:37:00 -0400

Andrea Phillips on Transmedia Storytelling in her book A Creator’s Guide to Transmedia Storytelling

From the Panel to the Frame: Style and Scott Pilgrim by Drew...

cinefragma — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:52:58 -0400

From the Panel to the Frame: Style and Scott Pilgrim by Drew Morton

How does style link the Scott Pilgrim comics, film, and video game? This visual essay, composed by Dr. Drew Morton (Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Texas A&M University-Texarkana), analyzes how Bryan Lee O’Malley’s books were formally interpreted by director Edgar Wright and game designer Paul Robertson.

Star Wars Uncut: fan-made crowdsourced remake of Star...

cinefragma — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:54:00 -0400

Star Wars Uncut: fan-made crowdsourced remake of Star Wars! (Source: Starwarsuncut.com)

Star Wars Uncut is a crazy fan mashup remake of the original Star Wars movies. It is the brainchild of Casey Pugh, a developer dedicated to creating interactive experiences on the web. In 2009, Casey was inspired to use the Internet and an ever-ready pool of passionate Star Wars fans to crowdsource the classic film Star Wars IV: A New Hope. This pet project turned into a labor of love and creativity on a large scale. Nearly a thousand fans came together to participate and the resulting movie is equal parts fun, kooky, and dearly nostalgic.

Click below to watch Star Wars IV Episode fan film

Robot Heart Stories: Transmedia & Education Robot Heart...

cinefragma — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:48:00 -0400

Robot Heart Stories: Transmedia & Education

Robot Heart Stories is the first in a trilogy of experiential learning projects from award winning storytelling visionary and experience designer Lance Weiler and creative producer Janine Saunders. Each project will inspire young and old alike to co-create and share. The goal is to reboot how we think about learning in an effort to unleash a collaborative journey into the future of education. The trilogy focuses on air, land and sea in three unique participatory storytelling initiatives designed to develop creativity, digital literacy and collaborative problem solving skills.

(Source: Vimeo)

The Internet of Everything Dave Evans, Cisco’s Chief...

cinefragma — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:12:00 -0400

The Internet of Everything

Dave Evans, Cisco’s Chief Futurist, describes how the Internet of Everything will change the world for the better by creating more relevant and valuable connections.

(Source: YouTube)

Redefining TV: Tim Kring at MIPTV 2013 As the re-inventor of...

cinefragma — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:37:00 -0400

Redefining TV: Tim Kring at MIPTV 2013

As the re-inventor of classic sci-fi and thriller genres, as in Heroes, Conspiracy For Good, Touch and Daybreak, Tim Kring continues to evolve new ways to reach an audience. The next generation of storytelling will be less about TV, and more about reaching audiences on multiple platforms.
New narratives will be both linear and nonlinear and driven from episodic storylines melding with interactive conversations on social and mobile media. The new model will likely combine a wealth of public discourse, a bevy of interactive content and a truly connected game experience at the core.

(Source: YouTube)

The Future of Branded Entertainment Insights, visions and dreams...

cinefragma — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:09:00 -0400

The Future of Branded Entertainment

Insights, visions and dreams from the MIPCube’s Brand & Content Master Class at MIPTV 2013

(Source: SlideShare)

(via fastcompany) The Writer Behind “Dark Night” and “Man of...

cinefragma — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:08:27 -0400

(via fastcompany)

The Writer Behind “Dark Night” and “Man of Steel” On Multitasking, Meditation, And Using Your Good Ideas.

David S. Goyer, the writer behind “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Man of Steel,” “Call of Duty: Black Ops” and the new Starz series “Da Vinci’s Demons,” credits a rigorous schedule and daily meditation with his multitasking successes.

Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, conceived of the helicopter and developed a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics (among many other things), making him one of the most famous figures in history. And yet we know surprisingly little about the Renaissance Man—all of which makes him ideal fodder for historical fiction.

Da Vinci is just the kind of superhuman figure that David S. Goyer relishes. The screenwriter who crafted the Dark Knight movies (he cowrote that trilogy with director Christopher Nolan) and Man of Steel (the upcoming reboot of the Superman mythology, directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Nolan) has created Da Vinci’s Demons, a new series debuting this week on Starz.

Goyer is no slouch himself. The last TV show he created was the one-season ABC series FlashForward; he has directed movies, including Blade: Trinity and Zig Zag; he’s written two novels and he developed the story for the wildly successful videogames Call of Duty: Black Ops Iand II.

In a tightly scheduled 15 minutes, Co.Create asked the master multitasker how he manages it all and how he balances the expectations of die-hard fans with his own creative vision. Naturally, we couldn’t help squeezing in a question or two about the much-awaited Man of Steel.

Stick to a rigorous schedule- unless Zack Snyder calls.

If you have a good idea, don’t save it. Use it.

Help a director out.

Find the hole in the history.

Embrace Reinvention.

Here’s the full story.

The Peanut Gallery Peanut Gallery is a Chrome Experiment that...

cinefragma — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:23:00 -0400

The Peanut Gallery

Peanut Gallery is a Chrome Experiment that lets you add intertitles to old film clips using your voice, then share those clips with your friends. It uses your computer’s microphone and the Web Speech API in Google Chrome to turn speech into text.

www.peanutgalleryfilms.com

Vintage Social Networking by John Atkinson

cinefragma — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:47:15 -0400

Vintage Social Networking by John Atkinson

Google Maps Treasure Mode Visit the Treasure Map

cinefragma — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:27:00 -0400

Google Maps Treasure Mode

Visit the Treasure Map

Teaching Childern to Code with Games Deadly robots, dramatic...

cinefragma — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:41:57 -0400

Teaching Childern to Code with Games

Deadly robots, dramatic arenas, and asynchronous strategy are all part of Hakitzu - a game developed by Kuato Studios that introduces kids to Javascript, one of today’s most popular programming languages.

With no programming knowledge necessary, players will develop a range of coding skills through strategic game-play and customizable robots. Multiplayer competitions, achievements shared on social networks, regular upgrades and downloads

Transmedia, Hollywood 4: Spreading Change

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:00:00 -0400

On Friday, April 12, 2013, the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television is teaming up with USC Annenberg School of Communication and USC School of Cinematic Arts for the Transmedia, Hollywood 4 conference. Presented by the Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. foundation, the theme of the conference will be “Spreading Change”.

The event will be held at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and will be followed by a reception. To purchase tickets, click here. For additional information, please refer to either the event schedule or event location pages, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions!

Transmedia entertainment has been advanced within the Hollywood system primarily through a logic of promotion, audience building, and engagement, offering the ideal tools for capturing the imagination of networked audiences through the creation of immersive and expansive imaginary worlds. As transmedia has spread around the world, especially to countries with a much stronger tradition of public media, these same practices have been embraced as a means not of building fictional realms but of spreading change throughout the world. Transmedia, Hollywood is a one-day public symposium exploring the role of transmedia franchises in today’s entertainment industries.

Transmedia, Hollywood turns the spotlight on media creators, producers and executives and places them in critical dialogue with top researchers from across a wide spectrum of film, media and cultural studies to provide an interdisciplinary summit for the free interchange of insights about how transmedia works and what it means. Transmedia, Hollywood is co-hosted by Denise Mann and Henry Jenkins, from UCLA and USC, two of the most prominent film schools and media research centers in the nation.

Cross Video Days is looking for innovative digital content such...

cinefragma — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:42:26 -0400

Cross Video Days is looking for innovative digital content such as webdoc, webseries, short programmes and transmedia projects. Deadline for applications is April 11, 2013.

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Internet according to Frank Rose in his book The Art of...

cinefragma — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:23:39 -0400

Internet according to Frank Rose in his book The Art of Immersion: How the digital is remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the way we tell stories.

“How Webcomics Work” An excerpt from the comic strip...

cinefragma — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:30:44 -0400

“How Webcomics Work”

An excerpt from the comic strip documentary Stripped by Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder. Animation and music by Doctor Octoroc (doctoroctoroc.com). Editing by Ben Waters.