Category: Design

  • Seminar: The Documentary Distribution Dilemma

    Ozdox, the The Australian Documentary Forum and The Australian Director’s Guild in association with AFTRS supported by Metroscreen and Sydney Film School presents: The Documentary Distribution Dilemma What online video can and cannot deliver, and why filmmakers need to understand it NOW! Date: THURS 9 April 2009 – 6.30pm for 7pm Venue: AFTRS Theatre 130…

  • Multiplatform Content Seminars & Workshops

    LAMP @ AFTRS has begun it’s 2009 series of seminars, workshops and incubators, many are listed below. LAMP has been actively involved in getting 360 Content development integrated into the main curriculum at AFTRS (in its new building) for the past year but is now back delivering industry standard, emerging media education. Multiplatform Content and…

  • Documentary 2.0 – Serious Games Seminar Workshop

    LAMP ‘INTERACTIVE’ WORKSHOP FRIDAY 3 APRIL 10am – 5pm @ AFTRS CLICK HERE TO APPLY: Seminar and Workshop The intersection between documentary filmmaking and games will be explored in this half seminar and half rapid development workshop, providing deep insight into the potential of Serious Games. Both games and stories have long been recognised as…

  • Interactive Emmy Nomination LAMP Mentored Scorched

    This LAMP mentored project from Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox (of Firelight Productions) has been nominated in the Fiction category of the 2009 International Interactive Emmy Awards. These awards are held at Milia in Cannes each year and this year it is from 30 March to 3 April. The video below with a voice over…

  • Macbeth Goes Live in Second Life

    Early last year (2008) a LAMP initiated project called “Macbeth:What If” from the 7th residential received development/production funding from the NMC and the Australia Council (who also part funded the LAMP: Story of the Future residential) last year. Project creator Kerreen Ely-Harper teamed up with producer Kate Richards, Virtual World creator Angela Thomas and another…

  • GameJam08 – Nine Podcasts

    GameJam 2008 was run at AFTRS in Sydney on 1 November and featured talks to do with developing for or playing with console, pc games or online games. Creating and using virtual worlds, games, film cross-over, machinima, writing, AI and educational, fun or just plain cool stuff. Below is a selection of those captured on…

  • Podcast – Art & Craft of Previsualisation

    A presentation by Chris Edwards, CEO of LA based Third Floor to the Visual Effects Society in Sydney on 5th June 2008 A special released talk related to three new courses AFTRS are offering in 2008 featuring Previsualisation elements – Animation Directing, Games and Virtual Worlds. This is a podcast of a talk Chris gave…

  • Podcast – Joe Velikovsky “Growing Worlds’

    ‘Growing Worlds” An abridged Presentation on Games Writing and Adaptation by Joe Velikovsky (Note: the first half of the podcast contains loopback echo due to technical issues) In this abridged (20 out of 35 mins) presentation at a LAMP Insight ‘Growing Worlds – Games Adaptation Seminar’  Joe looks specifically at the practical side of games…

  • Launched: LAMP mentored Red-Hot Cross-Media Drama – Scorched

    SCORCHED is Australia’s first ‘what-if’ disaster telemovie. – “The Year is 2012 and Australia has run out of water.” There is a lot more than meets the eye to Scorched, destined to be Australia’s biggest landmark doco-drama event this year. The social media, community generated story elements that build up to and after the 90…

  • LAMP Project Atom Finalist – Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life

    Previously highlighted on the LAMP site here The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree continues on and has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below). Award Recipients – Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman Award Recipients – Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The…