Category: Course Seminars

  • 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…

  • Television 2.0 – Free LAMP ‘State of Play’ Seminar

    TV 2.0: The Latest Innovations in Online Video Wed 25 March 6-7 pm – TELEVISION 2.0 This is the first of a series of LAMP ‘State of Play’ Seminars profiling successful case studies, people and the latest techniques across multi platform media. FREE themed seminars running on the last Wednesday of every month at 6pm…

  • 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…

  • Podcast – Laurel Papworth “Building a Social Network”

    ‘Building a Social Network” Strategies, implementation and management of online communities. Laurel takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the various features and functions of organic social networks and how to identify positive and negative aspects of existing services. She refers to how on entry the motto/tagline, tools and what the community are discussing should…

  • 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…