the (red) set*

While posting a tweet on twitter this morning – about a gorgeous photo spread, shot here at AFTRS and featuring two of our fabulous graduates Kriv Stenders and Warwick Thornton, that accompanies an article on the Australian Film Industry {The New Wave, page 204}, in the latest issue of Australian Vogue – the red set spotted a tweet from AFTRS Multi Platform lecturer Gary Hayes…….

@GaryPHayes ” Game design a lot like dealing drugs – GameSpot “”the interesting stuff is in the intersections. Game design a lot like dealing drugs – GameSpot “”the interesting stuff is in the intersections.”

……..and followed the bitly link to land on gamespot.com which has a piece on a presentation given by Will Wright at the recent 2010 Game Developer Conference, held in San Francisco, which touches on how games fit into the overall entertainment picture.

In the write up on gamespot the crossover between games and other media such as movies is also touched on:

“He pointed to the main science disciplines–geology, physics, biology, and chemistry and said, “the interesting stuff is in the intersections.” Wright claims that a similar crossover is already happening in entertainment, pointing to augmented reality and its introduction into televised NFL Football and the recent Winter Olympics.”

In light of the recent mega success of James Cameron’s Avatar, which well and truly brought the notion of the avatar into the mainstream – it will beintersting to see how, when and if AI makes an even bigger inroad into movies and TV…

image found online and retreived from: http://bit.ly/9q4P1

Michael Bodey, over at the Australian, wrote some words yesterday about the second edition of LUMINA – a journal published by the AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION and RADIO SCHOOL which  incidentally is availale to order at bookstores now….

Michael’s words as they appeared in  Reeltime in  The Australian March 03, 2010:

“THE second edition of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School’s journal Lumina is out this week and it’s a chunky effort, an improvement on the first. Highlights include some of the conversations from the Friday on My Mind series, with Jan Sardi, Andrew Bovell and John Edwards; and others from the Centre for Screen Business with Rick McKenna and Andrew Knight. The journal includes Robert Connolly’s provocative paper Embracing Innovation: A New Methodology for Feature Film, and Adrian Martin writes lucidly, as always, about teen movies. The Australian’s David Stratton contributes a piece on the “Great talkie revolution”. Order copies through bookstores.”

image: cover of Issue 2 of LUMINA – AFTRS journal on screen arts and business

Friday on My mind this week:  Great Adpatations with Jennifer Byrne

Feb 26

In light of one of Australia’s best loved novels Cloudstreet by Tim Winton being adapted into a 6 hour mini sereis commissioned by Showtime and set to start shooting in Perth, the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club host Jennifer Byrne will examine what makes a “great Australian novel” ripe to become a great screen adaptation – from fiction, non-fiction, biographies and thrillers to the romance and history genres

5:00pm AFTRS Sydney

Special guest:

• Jennifer Byrne – ABC host (First Tuesday Book Club)

Want more info?

Go to the AFTRS website

image: book cover of Cloudstreet by Tim Winton