LAMP VII Schedule

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This is the provisional schedule and guardian mentor allocations for the Seventh LAMP residential and Story of the Future part two.


SCHEDULE

TUESDAY 6th Nov

  • 12.00 - Gary Jackie as forward team arrival, breakouts, game and main presentations set-up


WEDNESDAY 7th Nov

INNOVATE

  • 9.00 - Gary & Jackie final game prep
  • 1.00 - CHECK-IN AND LUNCH: Quick lunch and check in at Couran Terminal for all teams and mentors
  • 2.30 - ARRIVAL: All teams and other mentors arrive at Eco Resort. Brief island orientation
  • 2.45 - INTRODUCTION & ORIENTATION - p: Gary, Therese, Peter - Formal introductions to the week. Folders, schedule, attitudinal, expectations, outcomes etc:
  • 3.15 - PROJECTS AND TEAM INTRODUCTIONS - p: Mod GH
    • Each team presents who they are, what they expect and their idea. Only 5 minutes each, including short intro to each team member.
  • 4.00 - MENTOR WHATS COOL -p: Mod GH
    • Each mentor has just 5 minutes to show or talk about their Case Study later OR something they find inspiring. This is to set a tone of innovation and also to introduce an aspect of each mentor.
  • 4.45 - EXERCISE/GAME: Intro JT/GH - p.
    • To develop awareness of compelling game-play as Mixed-Media, Cross-Reality . Combined with a unique, distributed narrative quest and story creation.
  • 6.30 - DINNER
  • 7.15 - PRESENTATION (dinner area): Mod JT. Before dessert presentations of game stories by each 'group' sitting in their random teams.
  • 8.00 - Bar and free networking
  • 11.00 - Sleep!

THURSDAY 8th Nov

IMMERSE

  • 9.00 - SHARE -p: Mod JT. Review of game and messages for all projects
  • 9.15 - ORIENTATION -p: How the week works, adviser allocations, schedule review and review of day to come.
  • 9.30 - PRESENTATION 1 -p: Peter Giles (+ Gary), A range of key New Media Business Models to consider during the week. Sheet of all given out.
  • 10.00 - MENTOR SESSION 1 (guardian) - b:
    • Projects Teams get settled into their own spaces. Consider previous presentation (15m). Guardian mentors join their team and set goals and identify challenges for the week (45m)
  • 11.00 - MORNING TEA
  • 11.25 - PRESENTATION 2 -p: Matt Costello International guest, case studies and talk "Developing Story and Gameplay:
  • 12.00 - MENTOR SESSION 2 -b:
    • Consider previous presentation (35m). Projects Teams select the first of four mentors they want this week for this session. (50m)
  • 1.15 - LUNCH:
  • 2.00 - PRESENTATION 3/4 -p: 15 minute case studies (+5 qa)
    • Jennifer Wilson "Social Engagement, Conversations Across Platforms"
    • John Banks "Developing Social Networks in Online Games"
  • 2.40 - MENTOR SESSION 3 -b:
    • Consider previous presentations (30m). Projects Teams select the second of four mentors they want this week for this session. (50m)
  • 4.00 - AFTERNOON TEA:
  • 4.20 - EXERCISE -p: Cross-Fertilizers R-Us!.
    • Each team will pitch cool ideas that have come from today so far cross-reviewed by rotating alternate teams discuss in front of rest of group how the others project could be made more engaging. 5m each
  • 5.00 - MENTOR SESSION 4 (guardian) -b: Reflection time for each group, and after 45 mins a 15 minute pre dinner meet with guardian mentor to see how they are doing and identify issues.
  • 6.00 - DINNER:
  • 7.00 - MENTOR MEETING (bar): Short one hour 'bar' meet with all mentors to identify issues. Free-form non structured. Terese or another collates issues.
  • 8.00 - SOCIAL: All free for activities.

FRIDAY 9th Nov

INSPIRE

  • 9.00 - INTRODUCTIONS -p: "How are we doing?" Short recap of outcomes and review of day to come.
  • 9.10 - PRESENTATIONS 5/6 -p: 15 minute case studies (+5 qa)
    • Marissa Cooke "Extended Reality"
    • Andrew Apostola "Engagement with community, audience and platforms in broadband and mobile environments" "
  • 9.40 - MENTOR SESSION 5 b:
    • Consider previous presentations (35m). Projects Teams now meet the third of four mentors selected on the second day they want this week for this session. (50m)
    • Parallel track begins (45m) with the mentoring (tbd) Catherine Gleeson will start to lead a design thread for designers from each team - CG +8
  • 11.00 - MORNING TEA
  • 11.30 - PRESENTATION 7/8 -p: 15 minute case studies (+5 qa)
    • Gary Hayes "Creating Story Environments, TV & Virtual Worlds, Mixed-Media, Cross-Reality"
    • Arse "The Hive - Seeding Collective Thought. A Case Study of Beethoven's Hair"
  • 12.00 - MENTOR SESSION 6 -b:
    • Consider previous presentations (35m). Projects Teams select the fourth of four mentors they want this week for this session. (50m)
    • Parallel track continues (45m) (tbd) Catherine Gleeson will continue a design thread for designers from each team - CG +8
  • 1.15 - LUNCH:
  • 2.00 - PRESENTATION 9/10 -p: 15 minute case studies (+5 qa)
    • Catherine Gleeson "Designing the Future" includes some feedback on design parallel thread running
    • Jackie Turnure "The Jewel in the Crown: Pitching the User Journey"
  • 2.40 - MENTOR SESSION 7 (guardian) -b:
    • Consider previous presentations (30m). Projects Teams now start to consider their proposition particularly the USP, the Jewell, what makes it special with Guardian mentors. (50m)
    • Parallel final session (45m) (tbd) Catherine Gleeson will finish the design thread for designers from each team - CG +8
  • 4.00 - AFTERNOON TEA:
  • 4.15 - EXERCISE -p: Pass the pitch.
    • Each team will be briefed by another one who will then pitch it back to the larger group for them. This brings out nuggets of gold that the team who owns it often don't see. 5m each
  • 5.00 - MENTOR SESSION 8 (guardian) -b: Reflection time for each group, and after 45 mins a 15 minute pre dinner meet with guardian mentor to see how they are doing and identify issues.
  • 6.00 - DINNER:
  • 6.45 - MENTOR MEETING: A 'bar' meet with all mentors to go through each teams issues structured. Terese or another collate.
  • 7.30 - ACTIVITY ALL: Nocturnal walk.

SATURDAY 10th Nov

IDENTIFY

SURF CLUB

  • 7.30 - EVENT: Some shared morning activity to wake brains up!
  • 8.30 - BREAKFAST
  • 9.00 - LOOK AT ME: A short exercise in ways to grab peoples attention both in the project itself but also in presenting it.
  • 9.30 - PRODUCTION RECAP: "How are we doing?" Short recap of outcomes and review of day to come.
    • Focus on shifting into proof of concept mode, thinking design, assets, USP, communicating the idea (JT to do a 10 minute recap of pitching the user journey). All mentors to chip in and all discussion about getting an idea across
  • 10.00 - MENTOR SESSION 9 (guardian) -b: Each team will plan their build schedule, identify what assets need preparing and storyboard the presentation.

OLYMPIC ROOM

  • 10.45 - CYCLE BACK AND MORNING TEA (p) (Developers arrive Matt Smith and Matt Daniels: Arse becomes a dedicated developer and Gary and Catherine to also be key developers).
  • 11.15 - PRESENTATION -p: Tools
    • An overview from a range of presenters (CG,GH,AE and others) of rapid prototyping tools flash, director, NWN, Second Life, various machinima, keynote, powerpoint and web 2.0 open source tools available. Also introduction to mentors skills - each mentor who is able and willing to help with the build phases.
  • 12.00 - PRODUCTION -b: Storyboarding. Teams to continue planning storyboard, focus on achievable, ready for briefs to developers Matt Smith, Daniels, Arse and mentors (doing specific builds eg: virtual spaces). First meeting with developers, Arse to brief new arrivals.
  • 1.15 - LUNCH:
  • 2.00 - PRODUCTION -b: Briefing. With guardians, teams will brief all acting as developers and allocate resources. Guardian will act as production manager if not themselves acting as specialised developer.
  • 3.00 - PRODUCTION -b: Technical begins and mentors each hear a practice pitch from another team?
  • 4.00 - AFTERNOON TEA:
  • 4.20 - PRODUCTION -b: Technical continues
  • 6.00 - DINNER:
  • 7.00 - MENTOR MEETING: A short look at any production issues.
  • 7.30 - SOCIAL EVENT: TBD

SUNDAY 11th Nov

ENGAGE

  • 9.00 - INTRODUCTIONS -p: Overview of day. Managing production. Pitch rehearsal scheduling etc:
  • 9.30 - PRODUCTION -b: Technical continues
  • 11.00 - MORNING TEA
  • 11.30 - PRODUCTION -b: Technical continues
  • 1.15 - LUNCH:
  • 2.00 - PRODUCTION -b: Technical continues
  • 4.00 - AFTERNOON TEA:
  • 4.30 - PRESENTATIONS -p: First batch of technical rehearsals, re-tweaking and suggestions for delivery given.
  • 7.00 - DINNER
  • 8.00 - PRESENTATIONS -p: Second batch of technical rehearsals, re-tweaking and suggestions for delivery given.
  • 10.00 - CUT-OFF: Technical production finished.

MONDAY 12th Nov

COMMUNICATE

  • 9.00 - DRESS REHEARSALS -p: throughout the morning and last minute technical tweaks. Also LAMP kit packed up and break out rooms broken down. (detail tbd at site)
  • 1.00 - VIPs arrive
  • 1.30 - Lunch
  • 2.20 - FINAL PRESENTATIONS -p: Introduction to the Presentations. Gary,Therese and Peter
  • 2.30 - FINAL PRESENTATIONS -p: First four presentations (10 mins each plus 20 total for qa)
  • 3.30 - Short comfort break
  • 3.40 - FINAL PRESENTATIONS -p: Second four presentations (10 mins each plus 20 total for qa)
  • 4.40 - Networking Break
  • 5.10 - VISITOR FEEDBACK -p: VIP feedback
  • 6.00 - 1/2 hr eval with participants (told to do evals overnight), VIPs networking
  • 6.30 - Cocktail reception with all VIPs
  • 7.00 - Day vistors depart
  • 7.00 - CHAPEL DINNER: Final night dinner in Tropical Chapel Venue

TUESDAY 13th Nov

  • 9.00 - EVALUATION COLLECTION: Collect full eval sheets
  • 10.00 - CHECKOUTT: Final checkout and transfers to airports or SPAA. Timings to be advised


GUARDIAN MENTORS (note FIRST draft provisional)

  • MARISSA COOKE - Random Thoughts On Existence and Other Drama: – QLD A story about poetry, secret admirers, stalking, art adventures, life, love and every word is true.
  • JOHN BANKS - What if Shakespeare: – VIC/NSW What if you are Macbeth? What if you are Macbeth in Iraq? What if you are Macbeth in Iraq in 2007?
  • JENNIFER WILSON - Corroboree: – VIC Alice in Wonderland meets Noah’s Ark: A journey through the wild habitats of the globe that begins in the palm of your hand and inspires you to act!
  • JACKIE TURNURE - Camp Kilmore: – VIC Where everybody knows something but nobody knows everything. An interactive cross-media thriller that invites teens to choose which characters to follow in order to discover the clues and unravel the mysteries behind Camp Kilmore.
  • GARY HAYES - The 13th Samaritan: – NSW Vengence. Consequence. Your virtual journey.
  • ANDREW APOSTOLA - REDBACK: – NSW Seven celebrities heading to a secret summit. An outback pub. Environmental espionage on a corporate scale.
  • ARSE - Detective Dale: – TAS Crime/conspiracy. An interactive detective series for crime buffs, interactive puzzlers and 25-49 year olds. It’s Kath & Kim meets the X-files.
  • MATT COSTELLO - MACHINE: – TAS Building a better world, one person at a time. Are you controlling the great machine, or just playing your part?

MENTOR BIO EXAMPLE FOR SHEET

To aid the teams in choosing the mentors and from previous experience of them having the bios and still not knowing who or what they did how about something standardised e.g: quickly done as an example to get all mentors to do, especially relevant projects and skills

Gary Hayes - Creator, Producer and Designer of Advanced TV, Virtual Worlds and Cross-Media Service Design Specialist

Short Bio

  • Gary Hayes is currently the Director of the Australian Laboratory for Advanced Media Production, LAMP and Head of Virtual Worlds for the UK based Project Factory. LAMP is an initiative to invigorate the Australian media industry and nurture people and projects across social networks, virtual worlds, games, cross-media and mixed reality. It has a range of blogs and its own Wikipedia cited wiki. The Project Factory create virtual world presences and Story Environments and Gary is responsible for major brand deployments such as recent Telstra BigPond, ABC, Tourism Victoria and educational spaces such as AFTRS and Thursday's Fictions. The Format Factory develop Mixed Reality Formats especially TV and Virtual Hybrid experiences. Gary was previously Senior Development Producer and Manager at BBC New Media from 1995-04 creating many of the interactive and advanced TV firsts, service navigation as well as specialising in personalisation and inhabited worlds - followed by an 18 month stint as Advanced TV Producer based in Santa Barbara. He is also a multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and amazing photographer - real and virtual!

Brief Relevant Projects

  • 2006/7 - Second Life, Produced, Designed, Built Virtual Worlds for - Telstra BigPond 11 islands, ABC TV, Tourism Victora Virtual Melbourne, Thursday's Fictions and several cross-reality areas including AFTRS Islands
  • 2005 - Director and key mentor across 54 projects through LAMP. Deep knowledge of all areas of mixed-media, cross-reality.
  • 2004/5 - Broadband and on-demand TV. Line Produced Showtimes L Word PVR service, consultant/designer on CBS and NBC LAX and Law and Order segmented on-demand shows
  • 2000 - 2004 - Senior producer/manager and designer on BBC Interactive TV services. Including the first broadcast interactive 'BBCi' and first true on-demand X-Creatures. Also conceived and directed key interactive TV outings 'Top of the Pops', 'Walking with Beasts', 'Travel Show' and approx. five others. Strategic thinking on global broadcaster evolution to on-demand.
  • 1997 - 2000 - Senior producer on global cross-media navigators, the first BBC Live Internet Documentary (Central Asia), Early Virtual Worlds, Web streaming and producer/designer on landmark 'experience' projects including A State Apart (POV on N Ireland) and Bach (immersive world of JS Bach).

Presented all over the world - keynotes ranging from personalization futures, cross-media storytelling, business in virtual worlds and advanced television. Rapid Prototyping Skills

  • 3D worlds - Build quick 'look feel' mockups in 3D worlds including Second Life and Never Winter Nights plus machinima. Also SketchUp and Google Earth.
  • Music - Compose given good brief from orch through techno and intermediate sound design. Logic/reason/live etc:
  • Web 2.0 - Setup quick wordpress blogs, wikis, forums, podcasts, standard websites IF function is needed for demo
  • Rich Media - Fluent director user for mockups of video portals or advanced TV demos.
  • Graphics/editing - Photoshop, Final Cut, Video Conversion, AfterEffects.
  • Voice Overs - Can do decent doco style English voice overs and if pushed some English characters ;-)

Top 10 Resources??

  • Mentor's recommended links, resources, favouite tools, books etc:
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