The 3-day Forum is an outstanding opportunity to network, learn and engage with like minded people and industry professionals. Register now or sign up on any of the three days from 8.30am.

Registrants to the Forum will receive

• Forum Pass based on registration option selected
• Forum Programme and Welcome Bag
• Morning /afternoon tea and lunch
• Single invite to Documentary Edge Gala (3 May)
• Documentary Edge Festival Industry Discount
• 3 month Screen Hub Subscription

The Forum offers individual, student, corporate and industry rates. Please check the website for the latest information and list of panellists, and like the Screen Edge Forum on Facebook to stay up to date with the latest information.

Transmedia NZ curated sessions include:

“What’s this thing called Transmedia?”, plus,  transmedia storytelling master-class with international transmedia consultant and researcher Siobhan O’Flynn (CFC Media Lab, CAN), a session showcasing ‘sexy tech’, and a look at production ‘beyond the screen’, which explores the creation of innovative media for gallery, museum and public spaces.

See the Screen Edge Forum programme for more details.

Date: Saturday 5^th May
Time: 1pm – 3:30pm (light refreshments provided)
Venue:  AUT University, Room WF713, Level 7, WF Building, 42 Wakefield St, Auckland City

Learn from an international expert, Siobhan O’Flynn, about the emerging world(s) of Transmedia storytelling and production.

This Saturday afternoon workshop will enable you to apply the thinking around Transmedia storytelling to your own projects through looking at case studies and practical applications. The topics will be presented by Siobhan O’Flynn (University of Toronto), a consultant on the design of digital narratives, and advisor on storytelling in a range of media and platforms.

The topics covered include:

• developing a Transmedia narrative and strategy;

• choosing and integrating platforms;

• distribution models in a global space;

• alternative business models;

• and creating communities around your project.

Pre-requisites:

An interest in screen-based media. A love of storytelling.

References:

TransmediaNZ’s scoop.it

Transmedia experience ‘Pandemic 1.0’

Siobhan’s blog Narrative Now

Prices: $40 Regular / $25 Student

Register: through the Marker website.

Any other enquires please contact Rebekah Foote, Marker coordinator, (09) 921 9601, or admin@markercreativeworkshops.co.nz.

Reflecting the increasingly interactive and cross-platform nature of media production, this year’s programme features an ‘All Media’ strand curated by Transmedia NZ with sessions that aim to highlight opportunities for increased industry cooperation and collaboration across screen sectors. This strand includes a transmedia storytelling master-class with international transmedia consultant and researcher Siobhan O’Flynn (CFC Media Lab, CAN), a session showcasing ‘sexy tech’, and a look at production ‘beyond the screen’, which explores the creation of innovative media for gallery, museum and public spaces.

The Forum also updates the practitioner’s “tool-box” with cutting-edge ideas, skills and knowledge such as ‘production wrangling’, story development and innovative business models as well as sessions that highlight specific areas of production such as innovative content for children and young adults, and social activism in documentary.

This year’s line-up of international guests includes documentary makers Chris Paine (Revenge of the Electric Car, USA), Tom Zubrycki (The Hungry Tide, AUS) and Hugh Piper (Dancing with Dictators, AUS), Heidi Specogna (Carte Blanche, GER) and industry movers and shakers, Vikram Channa (Discovery Networks, Asia) and Keyur Patel (Fuse+ Capital, USA/IND).

Local industry leaders participating in this year’s Forum include Dave Gibson (The Gibson Group), Rhonda Kite (Kiwa Media), Ian Taylor (ARL/Taylormade Media), Vincent Burke (Top Shelf Productions), Chris White (BigLittleBang), Toa Fraser, Gaylene Preston and Sumner Burstyn.

Early bird registration closes on the 15th April. Student and Industry discounts available. Register HERE.

Join us at the Longroom loggia (the rear balcony) to celebrate Transmedia NZ’s first birthday. We’ll be talking (not for too long) about the exciting new initiatives Transmedia NZ has been working on recently, including the All Media programme for the upcoming Screen Edge Forum.

Please forward this invite to friends and colleagues who may be interested in this event. All welcome.

Cash bar, nibbles provided (thanks to the Screen Edge Forum). Please RSVP to help us with catering.

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The Screen Edge Forum is an annual Film, TV and All Media industry event focused on innovative ways to create and fund all kinds of screen production. It includes seminars, panels, master-classes, and a pitching forum. The Forum is a place to update your tool-box with cutting-edge ideas and network with local and international professionals and experts.

The Forum is an industry event, held during the Documentary Edge Festival. It brings together local and overseas filmmakers/industry to share, network and learn from each other. It also aims to bring a business side to proceedings by facilitating local filmmakers to present their ideas to potential local and international funders, buyers, broadcasters and festival programmers.

Check out the Screen Edge Forum HERE

Sessions that the Transmedia NZ community might particularly enjoy include:

SEXY TECH (1.5 hours)
You don’t need to be a “tech head” to use new and emerging technologies in your storytelling. Discover how New Zealand creatives are using “sexy tech” to further their stories, plus how to find that perfect technology partner.

BIG LITTLE STORIES (1 hour)
New Zealand excels at creating content for children and young adults. Hear industry innovators discuss: the unique challenges and rewards of this genre; making it on the local and international stage; and what makes kids’ media production so much fun.

BEYOND THE SCREEN (1 hour)
Many media professionals are making exciting content that expands the traditional platforms of film, radio and television. Panellists share their experiences creating innovative, interactive and immersive content for museums, galleries and other public spaces.

WHAT’S THIS THING CALLED “TRANSMEDIA”? (1 hour)
This panel takes a look at what defines transmedia; how to work within a transmedia model, its relevance to all content producers, and demystifies terms such as all media, cross-media, multi-platform storytelling, 360° storytelling, etc.

TRANSMEDIA NARRATIVES: Masterclass (2hours)
A masterclass in the creation of immersive story worlds with an international guest (to be confirmed).

Register Now and watch this space for updates on local and international guest speakers.

Anyone with a smart phone and a wifi or 3G connection can take part in Shoot Me Now, just go > HERE < follow the simple instructions & register your project.

You don’t have to be in France to take part in Shoot Me Now. Your live short film can be made anywhere and can be about anything, but it must be made in one-take and streamed live on 21 December. We encourage you to experiment with your mobile phone, to play with time, duration, light, mis en scene… be creative, be experimental, have fun!

Films will be shown on www.http://shootmenow2011.wordpress.com/ LIVE as they are made. Watch the Twitter feed @shootmenow2011 for the latest updates on the project.

Hope to see some live shorts from NZ soon!

Anna is a founding member of Transmedia NZ. She is one of the directors of Virtuo (www.virtuo.co.nz) and is a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland/University of Melbourne.

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production company, ONF (NFB : http://www.nfb.ca),  Codebarre is a new kind of audiovisual service

which allows a great interactivity to users.

Increasingly, audiovisual bosses, specifically in the television industry, recognise major opportunities

are linked to making their programs fun. Now, many viewers want to interact with programmes and it’s

with this aim that Codebarre was developed.

The purpose of this interactive program is summarised in a collection of 100 short movies from 30

French and Canadian film makers about 100 daily objects that everyone (in developed countries)

uses. The bottom line of this project is:  “Objects are mirrors reflecting what we are. Objects are still

with us, they are part of us and according to the objects we use or how we use it, everything in final

determines who we are.”

This semantic purpose is represented by an ingenius way to find videos in three different ways: search, scan or share.

Search: type what kind of object do you want to see and the web site will provide you linked video.

Scan: an original and fun manner to find information by scanning with your webcam the bar

code of your object. When the bar code is scanned, the web site finds the corresponding

video. If you don’t have a webcam you can also type your bar code to find same video.

Share: if you were not successful in finding a video dedicated to your object you can download a

photo of it from your computer on the web site with a little descriptive text by you to present this

specific object and why it’s so important for you and what kind of relationship you have with it. After

that, this object will be included to the object library of the web site.

All content is readable in one of these three ways and the structure of this interactive video project is

built around the objective of fun. If you extract all video content from this website you could make a

traditional documentary which could be focused on the last fifty years of consumption in the world,

or something like that.

But, in this case, what is very interesting is the way that each user creates his own ‘documentary’.

Like a child who play with toys like Lego©, Codebarre brings to the viewer all the pieces of content

he wants, but everybody is free to do what he wants with it (or add what he wants).

In this kind of situation, viewers are not just a passive public, they act on what happens on screen

and can probably be more open to the content experience they can learn from.

To conclude, developing this kind of project is a real issue for television in the future because beyond

making such content accessible, Codebarre (and others) are part of a massive trend: everyone

wants to be a part of a large community but only with these specific characteristics. Codebarre is a

perfect example of this trend, a universe: bar codes; but three differents ways to make sense of this

information and see only what you want.

For more on Codebarre: (French interview but very interesting).

Teaser video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJZQmInll1c&feature=player_embedded

Julien, 26 years old, fan about all kind of media, mainly television. I work in Paris in a television production company. My job consists to create some new entertainment and others tv programs and since few weeks, I’m in charge to optimise our programs on the web by developping strategies numerical solution (facebook, twitter, events, etc.). So naturally, I took a large attention to any audiovisual project which going beyond classical tv border to become a transmedia project. So now, for my job and for fun, I try get more and more information about transmedia universe. And I’m very glad to participate sometimes to a community like Transmedia N.Z (because I’m a big fan about New Zealand but this is another subject =) ). If you want to follow me, my blog and all information I share about transmedia and television in general (in French but sometimes in English) : www.latetedansleposte.com http://www.facebook.com/latetedansleposte http://twitter.com/#!/tetedansleposte

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MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa, is a project that explores the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the emerging mobile industry

The International Mobile Innovation Screening 2011, hosted at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington from 23^rd November – 26^th November, will showcase more than 55 international short films and four feature films, all produced on mobile devices. In addition MINA will feature selections from the Mobilefest (Brazil), Mobile Screenfest International (Australia) and Ohrenblick (Germany). The programme is curated by the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] who are presenting these works for the first time in New Zealand.

“Mobile filmmaking is an international phenomenon that first appeared in London and Paris around five years ago. There are mobile film-festivals in many cities that have a striving film culture like Hong Kong, São Paulo, Sydney or L.A. And now in Wellington.” says Dr. Max Schleser, mobile film maker and co-founder of MINA. “Mobile film making provides opportunities for the next generation of film makers to produce innovative moving-image work and can empower communities through creativity.” says Max.

Supporting these screenings, the MINA symposium hosted at Massey University Wellington, on 26^th November, will provide a platform for filmmakers, artists, researchers and industry professionals to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in a changing art and design environment and the transforming creative industries.

For a detailed screening schedule and symposium programme please seewww.mina.pro

$8 [$6 concession] for one screenings / $12  [$10 concession] for two screenings
Tickets can be purchased at the Film Archive, Wellington.

Registration for MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium [$30 including lunch]

http://mina2011.eventbrite.com/

MINA is supported by the College of Creative Arts, Massey University.

Project CONNECT has just released a beautiful new trailer. Check out the website: www.projectconnect.me for more info.