Month: July 2006

This is my bio site, where I’ve thrown all details that I feel are relevant together. Who am I?

3rd-person bio version:

For the past few years Christy Dena has been working as an industry strategist, mentor, designer and PhD researcher in cross-media entertainment. She has provided advice and presentations on multi-platform storytelling and marketing to Nokia Finland, Australia Council for the Arts, Film Australia, Center for Screen Business, AFTRS, ABC, dLux Media Arts, ACT Filmmakers Network, IGDA Brisbane and the Web Standards Group. She is part of the UK-based Sense Worldwide Network, a company that provides contextual research and concept development services to Blue Chip and Fortune 500 clients. Her advisory clients include the Australian Literature Board, Killer Bald Men, dLux Media Arts and Instinct Entertainment. Christy has mentored practitioners and producers at the AFTRS Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP), Booranga Writers Center, DeMontfort University and University of Melbourne. Her PhD candidature, at the School of Letters, Art and Media, University of Sydney, investigates changes to entertainment in the context of cross-media production. She recently gave a keynote at the First International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design in Sweden. She has presented, co-organised, MCed and been a panelist at many events. Dena has also unorganised the first two BarCampSydney events (unconferences) in Sydney, Australia. Upcoming projects she has worked on include the Copenhagen Council communications programme in which she was the lead strategist for the Killer Bald Men pitch, and is consulting for an alternate reality game in development in Australia. Her main blog is: www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com and she co-edits www.WriterResponseTheory.org.

Basically, I’m passionate about anything to do with cross-media entertainment…transmedia storytelling, distributed narrative, cross-sited narrative, cross-media communication, convergent storytelling, multi-platform storytelling, 360 content, integrated marketing, neo-baroque aesthetics, multivariant narrative, networked narrative envrionments, cross-media, X-media, XME, inter-media world franchises …whatever you want to call it.

Feel free to contact me at cdena at cross-mediaentertainment dot com. 🙂

 

Last year I was lucky to be a mentor for the University of Melbourne High Achieving Secondary School Student Mentorship scheme. I was even luckier to be teamed with budding film-maker Ezra Silman. Ezra was working on a film script back then, a script that he has not only filmed, but edited, sound, titles, everything. [I should add here that he can also act, sing and probably do brain surgery.] His film, Dark Beauty, will be screened on:

• 3rd (tbc) August 2006
• at 7pm
• at Bialik College, 429 Auburn Road, East Hawthorn, Victoria

But what I’m also thrilled about is that he’s created a website to go with the film, and a forum! This is something that  professional film-makers still struggle with and he is doing at the age of 16. Go Ezra! Speaking to Ezra about his experience, he gushes at what he has learned: how the script affects the film, narrative structures, sound recording techniques, the list goes on. He is getting out there and teaching himself, seeking out the advice of mentors in all areas of his intended profession, willing to make mistakes and willing to achieve. Ezra will go far. I’m lucky to know him.

WeÂ’re happy to inform you that the registration form for PICNIC Â’06 Cross Media Week is now available online at www.crossmediaweek.org/register

PICNIC ’06 is an international conference focused on cross media content and technology related to media and entertainment which is being held from September 27 – 30th in Amsterdam. We expect approximately 1000 delegates from Europe, North America and Asia.

Speakers will include top creatives and entrepreneurs such as Michael B. Johnson, Moving Picture Group Lead at Pixar, John de Mol, Co-Founder of Endemol and Founder of Talpa, Craig Newmark, Founder of craigslist, Philip Rosedale, Founder of Linden Lab/Second Life, Jamie Kantrowitz, Senior VP Marketing Europe at MySpace, Lorraine Twohill, Marketing Director in Europe for Google, Marko Ahtisaari, Director of Design Strategy, Nokia, Dan Gillmor, Founder and Director of the Center for Citizen Media, Marc Canter, Founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics, Joseph Jaffe, Author of “Life after the 30-Second Spot”, Matt Locke, Head of Innovation at BBC New Media & Technology, Emile Aarts, Vice President and Scientific Program Director at Philips Research Laboratories, and many more. For complete information, visit http://www.crossmediaweek.org/