The future of filmmaking - and of entertainment media in general - is murky indeed. Ran a course with my colleagues from LAMP today with incoming students at AFTRS. We profiled a range of new entertainment formats and got the students to brainstorm and pitch back ideas of how they would combine them with some [...]

Designers, digital artists, documentary producers and directors joined up for the first AFTRS emerging media design lab. Teams formed around four creative projects which morphed into compelling new media services in a rapid development process. Mentors Gary Hayes, Catherine Gleeson, Belinda Bennetts and Gary Hayes led the workshop which will result in four prototypes of [...]

I've met with a number of digital production companies in the past couple of weeks and one message seems to be coming through loud and clear: educators do not generally train students to cope with the demands of fast turnaround, delivery-focused production. These employers would prefer courses with multiple delivery items delivered in a series [...]

I visited the new Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Centre campus in Adelaide last week and can report that their program is very forward thinking and innovative. I met with faculty members who were both from computer science, animation, writing and editing backgrounds - all had extensive industry experience in computer games, film or other areas [...]

A new course has been scheduled in Emerging Media Design - beginning in late May. Taught by multi-talented designer Catherine Gleeson the course will explore some of the frontiers of future media - from navigation interfaces to cross media branding and enhanced television. The course has been inspired by many of the major changes taking [...]