Story R&D: Lance Weiler: Screen Australia Digital Ignition Clinic




Screen Australia: Multi-platform Storytelling show

Summary: The Creative Story World Process – How transmedia is both commercial and real, the studio and broadcast system and how to create stories that engage and extend across platforms. Exploring services evolving from one to another using key case study of how Head Trauma moved into Pandemic and other projects. A presentation from Lance at the inaugural Screen Australia Digital Ignition Clinic directed by StoryLabs in late November 2011. Podcast recorded by StoryLabs Gary P Hayes. ABOUT LANCE WEILER - Lance is recognised as a pioneer in mixing storytelling and technology. Businessweek named him "one of the 18 who changed Hollywood" alongside the likes of George Lucas and Steve Jobs. His films include The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma, around which he also made an acclaimed ARG (alternate reality game), and an online documentary series, Radar, which was nominated for a Streamy Award. In 2011, Lance's Pandemic, an immersive storytelling project, was official selection of the New Frontier section of the Sundance Film Festival. He sits on a World Economic Forum steering committee for the future of content creation, and teaches at Columbia University on the art, craft and business of storytelling in the 21st century. Lance is founder of the Workbook Project, an open creative network, and writes a regular column for Filmmaker magazine on the impact of tech on entertainment.