Arts Monday August 19th – The Multi-Platform Special
Multi-Platform, Transmedia, Cross-Platform – all screen industry buzz words at the moment. But what actually is it? Watching movies online? Webisodes? Apps?
We’ll hear from three Multi-Platform specialists who will share with Eastside what Multi-Platform Stories are, and what inspires them to create them: Nathan Anderson, Ester Harding and all the way from New York City – the inspirational Jeff Gomez.
Nathan Anderson – founder of Envelop Entertainment a multiplatform production house with clients and partners including NBC Universal, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Screen Australia, ScreenNSW, Southern Star, SLR Productions and Hoodlum Active; creating games and transmedia across emerging platforms.
Nathan’s work includes Precinct/13 for NBC/Universal a transmedia project completed for NBC Universal owned Foxtel Channel, 13th Street earlier this year. The project combined broadcast, online, mobile, social, print and outdoor platforms to engage audiences in a three week interactive murder mystery.
Nathan Anderson Arts Monday August 2013
Ester Harding – All Media Producer. Producing the online interactive documentary After Six Four (SBS) for Freehand. For Firelight Productions / 6ixty Foot Films she produced Storm Surfers 3D (winning Interactive Producer of the Year at the SPAA Awards, 2012). In mid 2012, Ester joined Media Stockade to line-produce The Surgery Ship (SBS) and feature documentary I Am A Girl, and to develop a slate for all media delivery.
The all-media Producer has the ability not only to raise money, but also to create champions for their work and build an audience from the very outset. Taking advantage of emerging platforms to create genuine narrative extensions of storyworlds, it has never been so true that a Producer must be the bridge between art, technology and money.
Ester Harding Arts Monday August 2013
And very, very specially Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, is the world’s leading expert at expanding entertainment properties, premium brands, and socio-political themes into highly successful transmedia narratives and international campaigns.
Jeff created the smash hit Hot Wheels animation universe for Mattel, and has worked with such companies as The Walt Disney Company (Pirates of the Caribbean, Fairies, Tron Legacy), 20th Century Fox (James Cameron’s Avatar), Sony Pictures Entertainment (Men in Black 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Venom), Microsoft (Halo), Coca-Cola (Happiness Factory), Hasbro (Transformers), Nickelodeon (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Showtime (Dexter), and Pepperidge Farm (Goldfish).
Jeff Gomez Part 1 Arts Monday August 2013
Jeff Gomez Part 2 Arts Monday August 2013
Many thanks to XMedia Lab for bringing Jeff over to Australia and connecting us with him for this interview!
Finally, and quite excitingly (though it’s not quite Transmedia), Sydney’s own composer John Gray will be joining us live in the studio to discuss his latest work on the upcoming release, I Am A Girl which will be screening from August 28th.
John has composed for the SBS Series, ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’, the ABC’s “Great Southern Land” and a swag of other gems…
Podcast of John Gray – I AM A GIRL soundtrack
For more information on the screenings of I Am A Girl click here.
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