Digital Ignition clinic attendees announced
Eight screen productions have been selected to take part in a multi-platform and transmedia clinic in November, organised by Screen Australia.
The Digital Ignition Multi-platform clinic is a week long workshop designed to “support the development of production ready multi-platform strategies.”
The clinic will be run by Gary Hayes, co-founder of StoryLabs who also wrote Screen Australia’s How to write a Transmedia Production Bible.
The announcement follows the first round of All Media program recipients.
Mike Cowap, Investment Manager, Screen Australia said: “The Digital Ignition Multi-platform Clinic falls within the suite of support offered through our All Media Program, which seeks to ignite and strengthen digital understanding, expertise and activity within the Australian screen content sector. We’re thrilled to be working with Gary Hayes and his StoryLabs network to make this as rich and practical a workshop as possible.”
Of the eight, two feature films, one TV show, to interactive documentaries and three games were selected;
The apocalyptic feature film thriller These Final Hours, by writer/directer by Zak Hilditch, and the psychological horror by writer/director Jennifer Kent, The Babadook were selected.
The team behind The Slap and The Straits, Matchbox Pictures will also attend for youth-oriented TV drama The Lost Boys, written by Craig Irvin and multi-platform producer Julie Eckersley.
The Hive, writer/director Annamaria Talas and Cave by Danielle Gilles are two interactive documentary projects also in attendence. The Hive will be produced by Simon Nasht of Smith & Nasht (Dick Smith’s Population Puzzle).
Three game-orientated projects will also take advantage of the workshop; Double Happy Versus the Infinite Sadness, an adventure game by digital agency Monkeystack; Byrax, an animated online comedy series by Queensland animators Studio Joho and the Eventide, a sci-fi interactive game by digital agency Loud & Clear.
The clinic will be held in the Southern Highlands of NSW, 21-25 November.
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Bible? LOL!
SA now into organising religious seminars for the unconverted amongst us?
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