It’s on the grapevine, Baz Lurhrman’s Set to Screen podcasts have hit the iTunes store offering young filmmakers an insight into the process behind the making of new feature film Australia. Critic Lynden Barber mentions it in his blog Eyes Wired Open and credits Luhrmann and Fox for a genuine effort to reach out to [...]
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It’s a rare occurrence for a kid’s film to really touch you emotionally – especially with the assault of CG animated features which just keep coming and kids seem to lap up like ice cream. I’m thinking of The Bee Movie, Valiant, Madagascar – even Pixar’s offerings are getting stale and saccharine. The kid’s ‘effects’ [...]
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A new partnership has just been announced which will shape the future of Australia’s digital film industry in the coming years. Australia’s leading production company – Kennedy Miller Mitchell – has announced it will partner with the Omnilab group to advance the future of digital cinema creation in Australia. George Miller made the following statement [...]
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Was just looking at popular vlogs on You Tube and came across Charles Trippy. He’s kind of a bad ZeFrank immitation only younger, better looking and much less acidic. Anyway, Charles has just been selected as a contestant on ‘The Next Internet Millionaire’ which is a reality TV concept on the web. Might be worth [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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