Saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the weekend and was transported by the design, performances, visual effects and the sound. But what's with Voldemort's nose? There were quite a few shots where the digital prosthetics work looked decidedly smudgy. I don't usually watch for these things but this one really took [...]
Just finished reading Richard Harris's essay in the Platform Papers series - 'Film in the Age of Digital Distribution: The Challenge for Australian Content'. You can find out more about this paper by clicking here. That was the advertisement, now for the critique. Don't get me wrong, it's timely for a paper like this to [...]
Next New Media is a start up who are launching niche video services on the web with a business model built around advertising. Some big names from the early days of MTV, Nickelodeon and Time Warner are on board as are some of the investment companies which backed the original foray of MTV onto cable. [...]
I was lucky enough to speak at a panel tonight with director George Miller about the future of film. George lamented the fact that good stories just aren't surfacing as much any more in cinema - either because studios are averting risk by financing sequels (rather than original content) or maybe because we have mined [...]
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 [...]
A few questions our film and TV industry are asking themselves at the moment: Why are Australian films not hitting the mark with the under 40's demographic? Should we be making films for our own market or aiming at international sales? Does distribution of films over the internet risk losing income through piracy? Surely asking [...]