Storytelling V: The Audience Strikes Back
The 6th Cross-Media Forum kicked off with a bang this year with keynote speaker Sean Stewart of Fourth Wall Studios. The founder and lead writer of the Emmy award-winning company held a mirror up to...
View ArticleLooking Under The Hood: Creativity, Code and Impact
At October’s Cross-Media Forum, Ingrid Kopp, Director of Digital Initiatives at Tribeca Film Institute opened our minds in her presentation Looking Under the Hood: Creativity, Code and Impact. With the...
View ArticleSay Cheese: How Technology Creates the Stuff You Need to Feast On
Paul Tyler, founder and director of Copenhagen-based Handling Ideas, examines how technology changes behaviour and how that behaviour is transformed into new social norms, at Power to the Pixel’s...
View ArticleAttitudes, Behaviours and Storytelling
The technologies we shape, shape us. As technology expands, we get smarter and the world moves more quickly. This is our reality. Wayne Fletcher, Innovation Partner at McCann Erickson explores these...
View ArticleSurfing The Digital Tsunami: Ways Forward for the Entertainment Business
Against a backdrop of changing audience behaviour, cord-cutting, multi-screen viewing, changing release windows and different forms of VoD, traditional business models are changing. Here, Wendy...
View ArticleHow to Cook A Cow Or: How I Learned to Fall in Love with History All Over Again
The convergence between interactive media, entertainment and education (edutainment) is a key global trend. Mahyad Tousi, co-founder and CEO of BoomGen Studios, explores this idea by illustrating how...
View ArticleNFB Interactive Sneak Peek
Loc Dao, Executive Producer and Head of Digital Content and Strategy for English Programming at National Film Board Canada looks at where their work is headed post award-winning projects Bear 71 and...
View ArticleCASE STUDY: The Spiral
The fundamental change in media consumption and audience expectation creates new challenges for film and television storytelling. Peter de Maegd looks at how the trans-European project The Spiral takes...
View ArticleWAR HORSE: From Page to Stage, Spielberg to Super-App
With reading habits changing and digital devices offering incredible opportunities for storytelling in bold new ways, the time feels right for an inspiring piece of digital publishing. In this case...
View ArticleWISH FOR THE FUTURE- OPEN DESIGN CHALLENGE
People are no longer passive viewers – they are their own media companies, watching on their own terms and publishing for the world to see. At the Cross-Media Forum, storytelling pioneers Lance Weiler...
View ArticleThe Think Tank Report 2012
The annual Cross-Media Forum attracts the biggest thinkers, innovators and creators from across the international media industry. On the final day of the Forum, a group of leading broadcasters,...
View ArticleThe Artists Formerly Known as the Audience
Storytellers became audience members at BFI Southbank on Tuesday. Over 350 people working throughout media entered Power to the Pixel’s seventh annual Cross-Media Forum to hear from some of the...
View ArticleWhat Are We Fighting For?
“Things move forward and they will not move back anymore,” remarked self-styled digital immigrant and Wallimage CrossMedia’s Director Philippe Reynaert in his opening keynote. Philippe’s truth was...
View ArticleMy Mother Has No Idea What I Do For A Living
This year’s Conference (15 Oct) was opened with Elan Lee‘s keynote presentation My Mother Has No Idea What I Do For A Living. With a resume that spans everything from multiple startups raising millions...
View ArticleConsumption of Culture: People’s needs, desires and expectations
Experienced in creating product briefs for the design world, Paula Zuccotti, founding director of The Overworld, placed people and their behaviours at the centre of her Conference presentation...
View ArticleThe Stories We Could Tell
As technology platforms and associated innovations impact our day-to-day existence in evermore profound ways, they simultaneously betray the intelligence of mankind; the interactions that define our...
View ArticleExperiments in Interactive Documentary
We have discovered new ways to connect story, technology and design to change the world. Interactive storytelling can challenge the single story, encourage agency and allow for the amplification of...
View ArticleOptimising Stories for Future Impact
From journalists to filmmakers to game designers, media makers and the institutions that support them are leveraging their platforms to influence audiences. Increasingly we are being held accountable...
View ArticleBuilding Storyworlds: A look into a writer’s room built for the 21st century
Designing immersive projects that mix storytelling, play and technology requires new kinds of processes and creative teams. Meanwhile shifts in media consumption and the democratisation of technology...
View ArticleCase Study: COLLIDER
It all started as a simple idea: Terminator meets Lost. Soon the idea became a best-selling graphic novel, followed by a YouTube web series with over 2 million views, two mobile games, a social media...
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