Category: Community

  • Another üBERGroovy LAMP project launches 25 June 2008

    Over half of all the LAMP projects are in or have been produced to audiences now. üBERgroover.tv was a project that came into our 4th residential on Milson’s Island in 2006 and we have just heard from ex-AFTRS student Tina Lymberis, it’s driving force, of the official launch and plans to take on the world.…

  • Innovating Global Social Media Experiences and Collaborative Entertainment Production

    A rough transcript of a presentation Gary Hayes (LAMP Director) gave as part of the Digital Content Session at the Trilateral KANZ Broadband Summit in Seoul on 19 June 2008. It looks at the emerging nature of Social Media Entertainment but focuses on how creative professionals can keep up with ‘the crowd’. Covers how Film,…

  • Pod and Vodcast – The Game of Writing Games with Matt Costello

    John Banks and Peter Giles interview Matt Costello in two parts at the LAMP: Story of the Future Residential held at Couran Cove, Queensland, Australia in December 2007. The Game of Writing Games with Matt Costello from AFTRSTalks on Vimeo. Matt talks about story worlds and how the game play is very dependent on the…

  • Spooky!…Sydney LAMP Insight seminar registration closes Friday 13th June

    Don’t have a black Friday-register now. Places filling fast! AFTRS LAMP presents two cutting edge seminars: Generating Online Buzz for Creative Projects Thursday June 19. Learn how to attract online attention and engage participatory audiences and global consumers. Building Social Networks and Growing Communities Friday June 20. Follows on from Generating Online Buzz for Creative…

  • LAMP at KANZ Broadband Summit, 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul

    Gary Hayes will be speaking and representing LAMP, AFTRS and new Australian Content at The 2008 KANZ Australia Korea New Zealand Broadband Summit on 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul, Korea The nine or so Australian speakers at the two day summit will be led by Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and…

  • Podcast – Marissa Cooke ‘Extending Narrative: The Emmerdale Experience’

    Marissa talks through her experiences of extending stories into online and other platforms looking specifically at her work on the enigmatic cross-media service created by Hoodlum for Emmerdale. She talks about call-to-actions, multiple entry points, point-of-view, story worlds, gameplay and trail heads as part of this experience creation for the audience. One technique she uses…

  • LAMP Insight Seminars – Creating Online Buzz, Growing Communities

    ‘Inviting Participants to Your Party and Keeping Them There’ will demystify Web 2.0 and help you harness its power to promote your creative project online. This LAMP Insight Seminar series in Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne examines techniques to attract online audiences and keep them coming back for more. It also explores how to effectively promote…

  • Change the World in 5 minutes during Earth Hour

    Last year LAMP helped SBS, Change the World and Film Australia by work-shopping some cross-media, social networking ideas around the short films commissioned for the project. They are asking for contributions on the Earth Hour theme and asked us to post this. _____________ The Change The World in 5 Minutes project is is encouraging one…

  • Podcast – Mobile Engagement, Jennifer Wilson

    Jennifer discusses legacy technologies leading up to mobile phone 3rd generation services and draws up on staggering statistics that indicate a change toward mobile content delivery over PC content delivery. She illustrates the impact mobiles are making as the new delivery platform of choice; right now there are twice as many mobile phones in the…

  • Podcast – Working Services, Successful Online Business Models

    Andrew Apostola and Peter Giles outline typical online revenue generating systems and business models. They touch on direct payment types such as free and chargeable content, and indirect payment types such as pay per click advertising models based on traffic volume and sales results. They discuss various forms of subscription models, one example being micro-payments…