Television did not replicate film - it evolved as a medium with its own peculiarities that required and spawned new ways of telling and structuring screen stories. Yet despite their vast differences, over the past fifty years, television and film have become intimately interwoven. We watch films, and information about films, on television. Films morph [...]

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The Film Victoria International Financing Summit was held on November 28 & 29, 2005 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia.
As expected, mobile media wasn’t a platform of focus at the Film Victoria International Financing Summit, but it certainly laid waiting underneath many nervous discussions of the changing economics, production methods, audience [...]

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This year’s x|media professional conference was, for me, an incredibly stimulating experience. A range of speakers delivered provocations on the future of media. But as with all good conferences, the real value lay in meeting interesting people doing interesting things, and in allowing yourself the mental space to sit in a theatre for a day [...]

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As the name suggests, AIMIA’s ‘Commercialising Mobile Content Forum’ was very much about the business of the mobile sector – about “successful mobile content that pays the rent”. A dozen or so presenters gave their views on the dollars in the dot mob. The following reports on some of the event, and some of the [...]

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Jason Wilson is a researcher and teacher at the University of Luton, Luton, UK. His primary responsibility there is assisting the editors of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Dr. Alexis Weedon and Dr Julia Knight. In January 2005 he submitted a PhD in Griffith University’s school of Arts, Media and [...]

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