June 2006 Archives

Here's something very exciting! For the last few months a team of animators has been working hard at the Film and Television Instiutute developing an idea for an animated television series. You can have a senak look at their work which has been posted online at YouTube. The team have also put together an interactive website for the program that gives an idea of the characters and potential storylines for the program. This is a great example of how programs and creative television concepts need to be developed with a wider maketplace than traditional television in mind. The project works as a traditional animation, a website, and the team also has great ideas based around games, merchandising and most importantly ways to interact with the audience in a truly innovative way. I'm not telling you what thier ideas are (now that would be telling) but some of the proposals the team has come up with a really cutting edge. The creation of the concept as been a great collaborative effort involving a number of emerging animators, most of who had not worked together before but through the KEYFRAME program spent 12 weeks putting the SCHOOLIES proposal together. The team have also developed a series of sample scripts and spent some time with a consultatn producer devloping practical ideas of how to develop thier project from a business perspective. Give the team your feedback, you can comment here, at the 'Schoolies' website or even on YouTube

This exciting new project will see Trainers and Learning facilitators from both organisations join together to develop skills in building learning networks through ‘blogging’ and ‘podcasting’ to build accessible knowledge and resources about new media and cross platform developments.

The national training system’s e-learning strategy, the 2005–2006 Australian Flexible Learning Framework, has provided funding for the collaboration through its professional development project, ‘Learnscope’.

FTI’s Professional Development and Training Manager, Graeme Watson notes,

“The screen industry is one of the fastest technologically developing business sectors and to keep on top of rapid developments we need to have new and innovative methods for building and sharing knowledge at lightning speed.”

Geoff Duncan, State Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation commented,

“The ABC in WA welcomes this opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with FTI and the larger screen industry. In this era of cross platform media development, the need for flexible, immediate and innovative learning opportunities is crucial.”

Hot on the heels on Channel 9 offering downloads of 'McCleod's Daughter' Channel 10 has done one better by giving away sections of their hit show 'Thank God You're Here'.   

This makes a lot of sense though because this is shot that costs very little to make, but consequently has very little value once it has been seen.   Ten has wisely only made a limited run of epiosdes of this show, so the audience can not tire of it too quickly.   It's likely to be back on air again before the end of the year but has a potentially short life span.  

To download a clip visit the networks website.