How do you make documentary and factual content for social platforms that captures and holds attention? How do you condense big topics into 60 seconds? Oh, and is there a business model for this sort of content? These questions were among the conversation at AIDC.
As a self-professed "comic book person" and "genre head", Ryan Griffen is blown away to have the voice of Batman - Kevin Conroy - attached for his upcoming project, 'Lustration VR'.
The Australian Guild of Screen Composers has urged the Federal Government to impose a levy of at least 1 per cent on the combined advertising revenues generated in Australia by the tech giants including Facebook and Google/YouTube.
If the Federal Government needed any further vindication for imposing a mandatory code which will force Google, Facebook and other international digital platforms to pay Australian media companies for sharing news content, Google Australia's latest financial results are timely.
Lingo Pictures MD Helen Bowden has called on the Federal Government to adopt the model set out in the Screen Australia/ACMA options paper which would require all commercial networks, pay channels and SVOD services to invest a percentage of their revenues in new Australian content.
Screen Australia has announced five online projects that will share in $500,000 funding, including an animated satire about the ghost of Captain Cook; a science fiction drama; and a romantic comedy told from the perspective of someone on the Autism spectrum.
There's a guiding philosophy that's successfully steered much of Hannah Lehmann's career so far: When people are spending so much time on their phones and social media anyway, why not give them interesting content to watch via their apps - rather than mindless snaffle?
Seven Studios has signed a major content deal with Facebook, the first of its kind in Australia.