Digital Futures - Digital Academies

The Media Training North West Digital Futures programme has recently been exploring how media is changing, how audiences are consuming differently, but more importantly how content producers can capitalise on these developments.

Having attended quite a few of the digital futures seminars i was keen to get on the digital entrepreneurs academy as part of the programme which was for producers to hone cross or multi-platform project ideas with input from industry mentors which would then be pitched to North West production companies.

I pitched a Web 2.0 project to MultiMedia Arts and found out today that i won the pitch and subject to contract will be producing the project through Sept and October.

I developed the idea for my pitch whilst in Australia. A number of different things inspired me, including, bizarrely the pattern on the floor of the carpet at the Powerhouse Museum in Melbourne (see pic above). It got me thinking about how content is distributed on the web and thinking on solving the problem that user generated contend is distributed all over the place.

An unconventional view

Recognise this?

I'm in Sydney, at the opera house. Perhaps not the conventional view of the place but the inside is just as fascinating as the outside.

I spent four great days in Melbourne effectively producing a new media project called 'A DAY IN THE LIFE' at a Neuroscience Convention. Of course because the content is user-generated - the joy is there is little to do except hand out the camera packs and talk up the project to potential users.

With the conference over and nearly 200 camera packs handed out - i thought a trip to Sydney was warranted - to see the opera house, the museum of moving image, the harbour...