Are we on the precipice of an anti social media tipping point ? Is the backlash about to hit?
On twitter this morning – as you do these days – and spied a tweet from mumbrella – interest piqued, followed the bitly link to an article that questions the plethora of wordage that is blurted out [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A link to a piece written by one time AFTRS lecturer Mark Pesce for DRUM over at the ABC’s website is doing the rounds at AFTRS today – prompting some internal commentary :
“All it will take are a few people crashing their cars after watching a 3D film and the bubble will burst. 3D is [...]
With the advent of all of the major analog Free To Airs now ‘live’ with their digital offerings the red set thought it might be a good time to check in and see how they are traveling and consider whether more channels is translating to greater diversity for viewers or just ‘more of the same.’
Quietly [...]
Interested in learning more about what’s on offer at Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast School in 2010?
AFTRS Sydney – Saturday Sep 5 & September 6 – 10 am – 3pm
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What you will find and can do at OPEN DAY
+ Course information booths – talk to AFTRS teaching staff about the course you [...]
Just in from the FTO
On 27 July, the NSW government initiative to form 13 new super agencies was formalised with the Public Sector Employment and Management (Departmental Amalgamations) Order 2009.
Screen NSW is now a partner agency to the Department of Industry and Investment, with staff working to that Department (other than arts policy staff and [...]
John Woo brings movies
From the US to China
and then back again
Red Cliff , by Ian Brown – VFX lecturer at AFTRS
Inspired by the rigour of twitter, where character count determines what one shares, the redset has decided to move to one sentence reviews – just like haiku – sort of…..
Every week we will randomly [...]
An interesting piece in the Australian the other day – first spied on Screenhub got the red *set thinking about changing screen viewing habits as bandwidths and connection speeds get fatter and faster..
As Lara Sinclair wrote in the Australian on July 6:
“NETWORK Ten claims reality cooking show MasterChef is the best-rating [...]
The Australian Writers’ Guild has just announced via their newsletter the nominees for the 42nd annual AWGIE Awards to be presented in Sydney on August 28 and we are delighted to have quite a few AFTRS alumni in the nominee list.
This year is proving to be a great year for Australian feature films reflected in [...]
