The 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead is being remade or “reanimated” in a first for the film industry.
Mike Schneider one of the project coordinaters and lead animator explains:
“Night of the Living Dead Reanimated is a mass collaborative re-envisioning in which artists from around the world select scenes from the original 1968 film [...]
The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below).
Award Recipients - Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman
Award Recipients - Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The Australian Film Television and Radio School - The Laboratory for Advanced Media [...]
Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]
As LAMP were presenting in mid 07 during various machinima and virtual world seminars the film ” Molotov Alva” has finally been transmitted on a national cable network, HBO in the US yesterday. Click here to go to HBO site to see a preview (for a week or so) and here is the official web [...]
The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]
Never shy of blowing their own trumpet, Virgin Media says that within a year its customers will spend more time viewing its video-on-demand service than watching Channel 4.
Customers of the British cable television company use the video-on-demand service 22 times a month on average. “We are at the start of a fundamental shift in [...]
LonelyGirl15 actress Jessica Rose is making a comeback to the computer-screen with a new web series called Blood Cell,produced by digital studio 60Frames. This new series is not a faked vlog but a well-produced murder mystery. Part of the current onslaught of professionally produced web content with a hyper-syndication (the viral distribution of content through [...]
The LAMP team have been packing up our offices at AFTRS in North Ryde in preparation for the big move into our new building at Sydney’s Fox Studios. In the process, a lot of paper, DVD’s and CD-R’s have gone into the wheelie bins and we’re hoping that in future we’ll be accumulating a lot [...]
An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]
Walt Mossberg, the Wall Streets Journal very well connected editor of “All Things Digital”, was invited to the Finnish Embassy in Washington DC this week for a talk organised by Andy Plesser of beet.tv fame.
His comments on the future of online media is extremely interesting especially his comments on slow broadband. He also dropped a [...]
Just for fun, for all you LAMP’ers who are movie makers and game designers, here is a fascinating article on how you should arm yourself to survive a zombie apocalypse if ever needed for your project…
Step one, Know Your Zombies.
The idea of the zombie derives from Voodoo lore. Voodoo (or voudou or vodun) is [...]
Not really cool more enlightening, but Tim Smith a student (ex?) at AFTRS sent me this YouTube link that gets Aussies talking about Australian films and how relevant they are to them. It speaks for itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCvLFgsbN8
