Posts Tagged ‘new media’

Just been looking at the joint venture between the BBC, iTV, C4, Five, BT & Talk Talk called Project Canvas.
The venture’s aim is to ‘to build an open internet-connected TV platform, subject to BBC Trust approval.’

I Am just in the process of updating the Blog with some of the most exciting projects I have worked on recently. We were asked by the lovely guys at Thoughtful to get involved with a very exciting project they were doing for the Liverpool Tate. The project involved using  Smartcode technology and enabled the viewer to engage with rich media content using QR (Quick Response Codes). We were asked to film a short documentary about the Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today which was then edited down to a 1 minute film.

“The idea behind the campaign is the belief that a modern gallery can do more than just hang pictures on walls and throw open their doors. Audiences can be engaged with the artworks in new and exciting ways.” (Quoted from Thoughtful‘s blog)

Viewers could access the film by using a QR code reader which read the smartcode made up of colour chart swatches and streamed the Rich media content from an online server. I-phone users can download the Neo Reader application or smart phone users can go to www.i-nigma.mobi and download the smartcode reader. Click here to read Thoughtful‘s full Blog entry.

Had a brilliant day meeting up with Signal Films and First Take in the ‘Emerging New Media Skills’ advanced course that we have been running. Both the Cumbrian and Liverpool group met up in the morning for a brew to discuss their interactive story ideas. In the afternoon, the Cumbrian group moved to the Hatch’s Elevator studios to develop their ideas and formulate a plan of action. We brainstormed some ideas for the narrative of the story and then set up a structure of ‘Story Arc’ events that will allow the viewer to make choices in affecting the outcome of the story. We are scheduled to shoot all the scenes in one day and then do the edit & post production on the 2nd day. (March 21, 22). Will keep you posted on how it goes….

Here are the links to the New Digital Media’s Courses’ Blogs;

Wendy Gill Melissa Dave

Jane

Chris

Carolyn

Currently writing a 3 day course in New Digital Media for Signal Films in Cumbria. I am off to the Lakes to meet up with the Film Company next week 25th to the 28th of November! Really looking forward to spending some time even more North West than were I am presently and meeting up with everybody up there!

I’ll post my Teaching materials in the next few days…and so watch this space!

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