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| METRO SCREEN MASTERCLASS IN VODCASTING |

METRO
SCREEN MASTERCLASS IN VODCASTING
Three events to walk you through the exploding business of Video-on-demand
and how to truly engage the nearly 1 billion people online right
now.
Industry Seminar – June 13th,
9am-1pm Chauvel Cinema.
Intensive Workshop – June 16th
– 27th, applications closing now. Metro Screen.
Launch Party – June 30th, 7.30pm
– 9.30pm
With bandwidth capacity increasing by the hour, and a new dot-com
video/social/consumer-generated/custom-browser launched every
week, where do film-makers and creatives begin to understand what
is going on out there!?
INDUSTRY SEMINAR –
June 13th, 9am-1pm
Our keynote speakers and panellists will show the way in this
focused half-day industry seminar.
You will hear about, discuss and debate:-
- new creative opportunities
- emerging business models
- new media brands
- new ways to tell stories
- how to engage with ‘the swarm’
- why existing free-to-air TV models are doomed.
Featuring keynotes:
Mark Pesce, Future St. Consulting & ABC TV's
"The New Inventors",
Ian Gardiner, founder and MD of leading online
video company Viocorp.com, Tim Parsons founder of Mobile Monday
Sydney,
Justin Baird, Senior Product Specialist, Google,
and a panel of vodcaster producers who’s work has already
been seen by millions.
RSVP by calling Metro Screen on 02 9356
1818 or emailing metro@metroscreen.org.au
Tickets Metro Screen Members $10, Guests $20.
INTENSIVE WORKSHOP –
June 16th – 27th, applications closing now.
Do you have what it takes to grow an idea from concept to pilot
prototype in 10 days ?
A unique opportunity to DEVELOP and LAUNCH your own cross-media
video podcasting concept – episodic screen drama, documentary,
animation series, comedy, or niche production.
Mentors drawn from film/TV, online and mobile will guide our successful
applicants through a process developing their initial ideas from
concept to script and then through to pilot pieces and working,
live online video podcasts.
A unique opportunity to get to grips with an emerging discipline
that’s exploding the creative and commercial possibilities
for screen media and visual storytelling, and a chance to show
off your work at the launch party.
Apply now!
http://metrovodcast.files.wordpress.com/apply-now.html
Subscribe to the Vodcast of the Vodcasting Masterclass!
Visit http://metrovodcast.wordpress.com
and click on ‘subscribe’.
LAUNCH PARTY – June 30th, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Come along and view the results of all the hard work put in during
the Masterclass.
See how they did it, meet your peers, get inspired.
Final venue details TBC for Launch Party, stay tuned
for details.
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Screen PORTABLE CONTENT |
| WORKSHOPS
IN MOBILE PHONE CONTENT, CONVERGENCE AND MOBILITY
SYDNEY SONGLINES
Metro Screen and the City of Sydney.
Participants were asked:
What makes a city is its people. What gives a city life are the
people who’s daily adventures, horrors, love’s and
history are played out amongst its architecture and natural features.
Participants mapped their personal experiences and relationships
in and with the city.
Here are some of the films that were made as part of Sydney Songlines.
You can download them and put them onto your mobile or watch them
here online.
Click on links below to view quicktime movies
online:
To view on Mobile Phone click on links below
to download mobile videos.
If you are using a MAC computer, click apple key when you press on
link...
If you are using a PC then right click at the same time you click
on link, this then will start downloading your movie.
Then either transfer the video/s from your computer via an USB
cable or use Bluetooth to send to your mobile phone
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HOMEAGE
Five Day Workshop in Mobile Media Creation
Think of one person you admire, adore, hold in high regard, or
just think is pretty damn cool. Be they a figure of myth, mirth
or history, your best friend or ex-lover, or maybe just someone
you met in the street, saw on a train or went to school with.
Whether they’re a rock star, a politician or your mum, this
is your chance to document their influence.
How would you like to pay Homage to this person in a way that
you can share with the entire cyber world? This is your chance
to make a mobile veneration to the one you esteem.
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Metro
Screen PORTABLE CONTENT |
| VIEWING
OUR WORK ON YOUR MOBILE
Follow the instructions to view selected works from Metro
Screen’s Portable Content workshops over the past years.
To view on Mobile Phone click on links below to download mobile
videos.
If you are using a MAC computer, click apple key when you press on
link...
If you are using a PC then right click at the same time you click
on link, this then will start downloading your movie.
Then either transfer the video/s from your computer via an USB
cable or use Bluetooth to send to your mobile phone
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Metro
Screen SOUND AND VISION 2007 |
Sound
and Vision is a free 5-day workshop for portable digital content
about MUSIC.
Eleven participants will produce a 2-3 minute project about
MUSIC, for distribution on mobile phones, wireless computers
and portable media players. Participants will also author
a DVD and create a website for their project.
Projects can take the form of music video clips, band and
artist profiles, or documentaries on music genres or music
events. This is an amazing opportunity to promote your favourite
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Ballet
School
By Tonnette Stanford
Length: 3min
BRIEF SYNOPSIS
It's every mother's dream to see her little girl transform
into a beautiful, graceful ballerina. Unfortunately, for
one little tomboy, ballet school was a place of torment,
torture and constant humiliating failure. Yet no matter
how futile, some mother's refuse to give up on their dreams!
CAST
Starring Tonnette Stanford | Mother:
Patricia Stanford | Narration:
Tonnette Stanford
CREW
DOP: Tonnette Stanford | Stills:
Tonnette Stanford | Music:
Asher Pope & Tonnette Stanford
Tonnette Stanford | tonnettestanford@yahoo.com.au
Watch Video online CLICK
HERE >>
View on Mobile Phone DOWNLOAD
HERE >>
(right click at same time for PCs or click the apple key
if you are a MAC user) and then either transfer from your
computer via an USB cable or Bluetooth to your mobile phone
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The 20th Project
By Liz Dooley
Length: 3min
BRIEF SYNOPSIS
Three people who have never played music together before,
have one day to write and record one whole song, for the 20th
Project. Will they pull it off?
CAST | James Bagley, Jarrad Trudgen, Liz Dooley
Liz Dooley | elizabethdooley@yahoo.com
Watch Video online CLICK
HERE >>
View on Mobile Phone DOWNLOAD
HERE >>
If you are using a MAC computer, click apple key when you press
on link...
If you are using a PC then right click at the same time you
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Pinball
Punks from Punchbowl
By Michael Park
Length: 1:30
BRIEF SYNOPSIS
Few people appreciate the role that migrants have had on the
birth and development of punk rock in Australia. As professional
outsiders, the Hard-Ons continue to live life with a punk
philosophy – ear-splitting inspiration for us all!
CAST | Peter Black, Ray Ahn,
Keish de Silva
Narrator/Writer/Director – M.C.S. Park
Michael Park | mcspark@gmail.com
Watch
Video online CLICK
HERE >>
View on Mobile Phone DOWNLOAD
HERE >>
If
you are using a MAC computer, click apple key when you press
on link...
If you are using a PC then right click at the same time you
click on link, this then will start downloading your movie.
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Mia
and Me : A Music Profile
By
Nicole Craig
Length: 2.57 mins
BRIEF
SYNOPSIS
"A short film about talented blues musician Mia Dyson...and
well, me..."
CAST/CREW
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Mia Dyson, Nicole Craig
Nicole Craig | ncraig@cbaa.org.au
Watch Vidoe Online CLICK
HERE >>
View on Mobile Phone DOWNLOAD
HERE >>
If you are using a MAC computer, click apple key when you press
on link...
If you are using a PC then right click at the same time you
click on link, this then will start downloading your movie.
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Screen PORTABLE CONTENT 2006 Workshops |
PICTURE
TALKS: Mobile Phone Content Development
A four day workshop in creating content for mobile phones. Participants
shot and created movies, games, slideshows and instillations for
replay and transmission on mobile phones via infrared, blue tooth
and downloads from external web sites.
"Mobile content development is a growth area with endless
possibilities for creativity and technology to work together.
As the functionality of mobile phones grows so to does the growth
of mobile phone content. Metro Screen will provide the fundamentals
for building such content." Katrina Beck, Marketing Manager
of Metro Screen
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MOBILESTORIES: Digital Storytelling
“Digital storytelling” is a method of relating personal
narratives using accessible, simple, yet technically sophisticated
digital media production tools.
Each participant produced a “Digital Story” in a mobile
phone playable file form, a web streamable version (on a web site
created during the workshop) and on a DVD.
The workshop provided tuition in script development models, asset
acquisition practices, Apple iLife 06 package, Photoshop, After
Effects and access to Final Cut Pro, Flash and Dreamweaver.
A typical digital story should be around 2 to 3 minutes in length,
be composed of a series of still images and possibly some moving
images with a voice-over delivered in a first person narrative
style.
Then have all the works with synopsis, contacts and names.
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CYBERPLACE: Development
of New Media Content for Portable Devices
The 5-day creative workshop developed new media content for portable
devices, such as mobile phones, wireless computers and portable
media players.
Participants were taught to write, capture, edit, record, conform
and compress their own very personal audio/visual story of “home".
This was an amazing opportunity to explore the notion of “home",
whether it is the home of memory or of imagination, a place you
have been that just felt like home, or some place from your half
forgotten past.
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Screen PORTABLE CONTENT 2005 Workshops |
METRO:MOBILITY
2005
METRO:MOBILITY 2005 was a series of events to introduce
emerging and established filmmakers, digital artists and screen-media
professionals to the new opportunities and challenges of the exploding
3G mobile phone content and services sector.
It was decided to make this ‘introduction to new opportunities’
by way of three events aimed at bringing creative people together
with people working for mobile telcos, mobile service and content
providers, angel investors, and end users:
• an ‘Industry Seminar’ held on the morning
of the 30th May 2005;
• a two-week ‘Masterclass’ held from 30th May
– 14th June 2005;
• a ‘ShowParty’ held on the evening of the 14th
June 2005.
By bringing the commercial and artistic communities together in
this way, Metro Screen foster the emergence of new ideas, new
distribution channels, new careers – in short, a new content
industry built on the technical, marketing and business underpinnings
provided by a rapidly evolving telecommunications industry.
With 100’s of people in attendance throughout the activities
and eight completed pilot/prototypes, content developers also started
negotiating with industry.
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Screen DIGITBYTES |
DIGIBYTES
FINALIST WORKS
DigiBytes.
A competition for ‘little movies’
DigiBytes encourages and rewards creative work specifically made
for mobile phones and the web.
2006 competition to help celebrate Metro Screen’s 25th Birthday,
stipulated a maximum duration of 2.5 minutes.
Eight finalists have been choosen and will have their work bluetoothed
to mobile phones at the Metrospective screening Sept
15, Chauvel Cinema 6pm.
Finalists:
1st PRIZE $500 voucher for Metro Screen goes to ‘Tina Sol’
by Tonnette Stanford.
2nd PRIZE $300 voucher for Metro Screen goes to ‘Light Shows’
Andre Bacalhau
3rd PRIZE $100 voucher for Metro Screen goes to ‘A Turning
Tide’ by Jill Carter-Hansen
Special mention goes to ‘Siam Sunset’ by Jon Daley
Mobile content development is a growth area with endless possibilities
for the arts and technology to work together. As the functionality
of mobile phones grows so too does its broad range of creative
applications.
DIGIBYTES FINALISTS
To view these files, you need the Quicktime player, click here
to download QUICKTIME
Light Show
Light Show is a simple movie that follows the playful journey
we go through in finding our identity and who we are in life.
It deals with how we constantly change in this never-ending cycle,
from choosing to and realising it, to at times being unaware of
the changes going on with us.
Credits Animated Andre Bacalhau
CLICK HERE TO WATCH
MOVIE Size is 404KB
world sham pain
The piece “world sham pain” is the first track from
a forthcoming ep for my musical project “the dead sea”.
The video component was filmed on a Nokia 6280 phone in the Blue
Mountains and edited in Final Cut Pro. I wanted to create a textural
video that would work both as a music video and also as a projection
for live performance.
Credits “world sham pain” was composed,
filmed and edited by Tim Bruniges
CLICK HERE
TO WATCH MOVIE Size is 4.7MB
Turning Tides
As the tidal movements of the ocean shape the shoreline, so this
life-story appears to have been shaped by different tides. Throughout
my life, the ongoing discoveries of where I came from and who
I have become appear largely connected to the ocean.
Credits Jill Carter-Hansen
CLICK HERE
TO WATCH MOVIE Size is 2.9MB
Painting Air
Australian multi-media artist John Douglas, painting the sky over
Elizabeth Bay, Sydney. The painting AIR3 AUSTRALIA003 is from
his 3 Elements: Earth, Water Air series. Featuring music composed
and recorded by the artist.
Credits All work by John Douglas | Music, painting,
filming, editing by John Douglas.
CLICK HERE TO
WATCH MOVIE Size is 2.1MB
TINA SOL
Tina Sol takes time out to promote her new album and discuss her
life, her success and her ‘unbelievable aesthetic perfection’.
Tina Sol is “All Real Woman!”
Credits Tina Sol Camilla Borde | Writer Tonnette
Stanford | Director Tonnette Stanford | Director of Photography
Mark Lane
Editor and VFX Artist Tonnette Stanford | Music Composition Adrian
Mcphee
CLICK HERE TO WATCH
MOVIE Size is 1.4MB
Siam Sunset
Dow Fairtex is a professional Thai kickboxer. He trains 6hrs a
day 6 days a week with little more than a roof over his head in
a Thai Boxing camp on the outskirts of Bangkok. He has 6 professional
fights and is 8 years old.
Credits Filmed, photographed, written by Jon
Daley | Narrated by Rob Morton | Starring Dow Fairtex
CLICK HERE TO WATCH
MOVIE Size is 812KB
Card Games
Card Games follows the fantasy we go through in growing up. From
the feelings of being trapped, to turning our back on what came
before and finally actually stepping out of our youth and breaking
away onto our own paths.
Credits Animated Andre Bacalhau
CLICK HERE TO WATCH
MOVIE Size is 684KB
GUEST WORK Roaming Sweets
By Anita Bacic + Natalie Woodlock.
Sound: www.extraspecialforces.com
DOWNLOAD
EPISODE 01 Walled Garden, 848KB
DOWNLOAD
EPISODE 02 Sweet Suite, 988KB
DOWNLOAD EPISODE
03 Sweet Seat, 996KB
DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS:
If you
are using a MAC computer, click apple key when you press on link...
If you are using a PC then right click at the same time you click
on link, this then will start downloading your movie.
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Screen PORTABLE CONTENT Contact |
Media inquiries
02 9356 1818 or marketing@metroscreen.org.au
If you require further information about Portable
Content , please contact:
David Opitz on
P: 02 9356 1818 F:
02 9361 5320 E: d.opitz@metroscreen.org.au
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