Category: General

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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 – 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…

  • Projects Selected for live-in-LAMP V

    The eight projects have been selected and confirmed for the next LAMP residential in Tasmania. We had an overwhelming response and the ten selectors were extremely impressed with the high quality of all thirty four entries. Below are brief descriptions of the projects in no particular order… Mash-up TV An exciting comedy show broadcast live…

  • Submissions – now closed

    Thankyou to the almost forty extremely high quality entries for the next LAMP lab. The selected eight teams will be informed on Monday next week. PREVIOUS DETAILS The next LAMP residential lab will be held from Sunday 29 Oct to Friday 3 Nov 2006 in the beautiful resort of Freycinet in Tasmania. The Lab is…

  • Podcast – Game Production for Filmmakers

    Presented by AFTRS LAMP. How are virtual worlds developing and what are the opportunities for media creatives? Luke Carruthers is a games developer who runs a company called Imaginary Numbers in Sydney. The company creates online games and their first title Tactica Online is a fast-moving strategy RPG set amidst conspiracy and intrigue of Da…

  • LAMP in the Metaverse

    LAMP has had a major part in the current build of the AFTRS presence in a virtual world called Second Life. The Island, called Esperance, has been designed and built by the LAMP team over the last month. Although not officially open until mid-September there have already been several LAMP projects afforded by the 3D…

  • 5th LAMP live-in-lab Oct 06 – APPLY NOW!

    The next LAMP residential lab will be held from Sunday 29 Oct to Friday 3 Nov 2006 in the beautiful resort of Freycinet in Tasmania. The Lab is sponsored by Screen Tasmania & Innovation, Science and Technology and subsidised by AFTRS. Chris Gallagher (Industry Development Officer, Screen Tasmania) said: “This is a fantastic opportuntity for…