For those who are interested in progressing their NDIN EPOCs to SMP in 2018, we’ll be hearing brief overviews of your presentations today.
Here are some slides with the details.
Hi digital narrative producers!
As you will remember from the course guide, there are no ‘flipped’ lectures Weeks 11 and 12, but rather the expectation you will spend that time working on your proposals and EPOCs.
Thus, the tutorials for Weeks 11 and 12 are reserved for workshopping together – at a time when you can be sure your schedules align – and under the guidance of your tutor.
Tomorrow we will meet at 930 and I will take you through the peer review element of the assessment task as well as the submission process. Afterwards, I will do the rounds of the groups as well as being on hand for questions. Remember, although the deliverables for assessment are not due until 15 October, you will need to be ready to share drafts by Wednesday Week 12 (11 October) when the proposals for Strategic Media Projects are selected.
Next week, Kim and Vikrant will run that selection process – details to follow.
Hi everyone,
The EPOC (Electronic Proof of Concept) you make to support your proposal is somewhat dependent on your project, your skill set, the skill sets of those in your ‘production company’ (or wider community) and, frankly, how driven you are to see your project selected for production in Strategic Media Project.
The EPOC requirement for this course is born directly from contemporary ‘real world’ and ‘industry’ situations, whereby very few funding agencies or production bodies will accept a proposal without one.
To be clear, it is not the whole project, fully realised. It is a taste of what the full project, if made, would look, sound and feel like. How it will be experienced. An audiovisual example of the world, tone and (where applicable) genre of your premise.
Just for example, here are the Screen Australia guidelines for what they simply call a POC (same thing):
As part of your application, you will need to submit:
Screen Australia, 2017, Program Guidelines: Online Production, p. 4 (full doc in resources tab).
I encourage you to think about what you might want to make over the break. Bring these ideas to the Week 7 tutorial and you can discuss with me, and your team, the possibilities for your EPOC idea. That is, how feasible it is to achieve and how effective it would be in selling your digital narrative. Only by sharing your ideas can we decide whether you’re taking on too much work or not enough.
Let you imaginations run free, and I look forward to hearing your ideas!
Have a great break,
Stayci
An opportunity to hear from one of Australia’s leading screenwriters. Details here.
Steven Soderbergh’s new film allows you to follow different character’s perspectives. This presents a new take on interactive narrative.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/08/mosaic-steven-soderbergh-plot-branching-narrative-hbo-1201868064/
May be of interest to some of you for project and blog inspiration! Check out the flyer.
Public Lecture
You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally renowned television scholar, Professor Amanda Lotz, titled “Evolution or Revolution? Television in Transformation”
Abstract: Is television in the midst of typical change—evolution— or is something more profound occurring? This talk explores the change and continuity characteristic of contemporary television based on the disruptions introduced by digital distribution.
Amanda D. Lotz is Professor at the University of Michigan and Fellow at the Media Center at Peabody. She is the author of five books including Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television and The Television Will Be Revolutionized, and co-author of Understanding Media Industries and Television Studies. Her new book, We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All, will be released in March 2018.
Lecture to be chaired by Associate Professor Belinda Smaill from Monash University
Date: Thursday, 24th August 2017
Time: 5:45pm (for 6pm start)
Place: Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza, 1 McArthur St, East Melbourne
Sponsored by the Film and Screen Studies Program, the School of Media, Film and Journalism, and the Film, Media and Communications Graduate Research Program at Monash University
As announced in today’s (Week 4) class:
Company 1: Jie, Andrew, KC, Federica, Hannah and Hardy
Company 2: Nhung, Annette, Stella, Rik and Nick
Company 3: Margot, Makara, Emily, Nan, Shena, and Zhexiong
Company 4: Wing, Ella, Rachel, Miro, Lisa and Jacinta
As well as being your proposal collaborators for the rest of semester, these are the peers for whom you will provide feedback on the Week 5 pitches – don’t forget the 8.30am start time.
Hi all,
Good to meet everyone today! A few of the off-the shelf programs you might want to explore that are relatively easy to use are: Shorthand, Verse, Klynt and Korsakow. They are all quite different so it’s good to look at the gallery and example projects. As I mentioned, I’ll be doing some workshops in weeks 5 & 7.
Another short reading about getting ideas for documentary if that’s what you want to pursue is this one: The Answer is Within.
Good luck with your idea development and see you in week 5!