Category: Course Seminars

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Video LAMP VIII Mixed Reality, Mini ARG – “Old Forest”

    A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia. We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. The last eight have been 2+ hour long location…

  • LAMP Live-in-Lab I-VII Projects. Summary Montage

    A single graphic with all LAMP residential projects prior to the Victoria Lab VIII in February 2008. (Note: these will be made clickable soon).

  • GROWING WORLDS: Turning Your Stories in to Games – Melbourne Seminar

    ‘ GROWING WORLDS: TURNING YOUR STORIES IN TO GAMES Presented by AFTRS LAMP, Australia Council’s Story of the Future and Film Victoria So what makes a great game and what skills do creators of these experiences need in order to develop compelling commercially viable content for the future? A seminar, interview and workshop for story-tellers…

  • Seven International Teams Selected for 8th LAMP live-in-lab

    The next residential is LAMP’s first official international event with three teams from New Zealand and four from Australia. The intensive week of development will be held at Marysville in Victoria from 24-29 February 2008, is part sponsored by the New Zealand Screen Council and is the eighth live-in development lab that LAMP has conducted…

  • Podcast – Andrew Apostola ‘How to Make Money from Online Content’

    Andrew looks at the nuts and bolts of making money with your content online. He looks at a range of emerging online portals setup to aggregate and share revenues with independent content providers and talks about examples including Revver, Grouper, BlipTV and Crackle. To create a sustainable business you have to connect with interest groups…

  • LAMP VIII: End of Feb Residential – Get your Skates on!

    Don’t Just Sit Around this Christmas Holidays – the next LAMP residential is just around the corner Have you got what it takes to apply? We are looking for six to eight professional teams with groundbreaking new media ideas to attend our leading R&D production lab from Feb 24 -29, 2008. Facilitated by the AFTRS,…

  • Project – Faction

    Title: Faction Comics – NSW Tagline: Where the comic world comes to create, share and rate. Project Description: Faction comics is a global online comic community with ongoing user generated publications. Target Media: Web, Mobile, Film/TV Team Members © Leader/Writer Sam Clayton, Designer Nat Jones, Designer Rob Wilby. Strict Copyright 2007 Guardian Mentor: Andrew Apostola…