Entries Tagged as 'the (red) set* conversations'

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Luminous LUMINA – “a chunky effort”

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 [...]

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

3D is so hot right now..but is it good for you?

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 [...]

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Good to GO – how the new digital FTAs are faring…

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 [...]

Friday, August 28th, 2009

AFTRS OPEN DAYS: ONE WEEKEND ONLY – Sept 5 & 6

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
One weekend only!
FREE
What you will find and can do at OPEN DAY
+ Course information booths – talk to AFTRS teaching staff about the course you [...]

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

FTO announces: NSW Government moving Screen NSW to Dept of Industry & Investment

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 [...]

Monday, July 27th, 2009

John Woo & Haiku movie reviews

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 [...]

Monday, July 13th, 2009

The Masterchef effect: making “Catch Up TV” the new black

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 [...]

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

What a great year for Australian Films – AWGIE nominees just announced

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 [...]

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

MAKE IT AFTRS in 2010 – Our full course offering for next year now available

Be on the look out at newstands and letterboxes around the nation for our latest eye catching insert featuring all of the AFTRS courses on offer for 2010.
You will find the 2010 AFTRS course offer insert inside the following newspapers on the following days:
+ The Koori Mail – National June [...]

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

NSW premier announces money for ‘creative industries’…..

Press release from Premier of NSW  [Wed 13/05/2009 05:11:37]
Premier Nathan Rees today announced increased funding and more jobs for the NSW film and television industry.
Mr Rees said that the NSW Government had secured post production of Peter Weir’s (Gallipoli, Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show) new film, The Way Back, in Sydney.
“The Government has [...]

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