Transmedia Vic meetup this Monday with Lance Weiler (USA) & David Varela (UK) :)
Christy Dena
keen to meetup with Transmedia Victoria folk this Monday 28th
November.
Story architect Lance Weiler (USA) and digital writer and producer
David Varela (UK) are here for Screen Australia's "Multiplatform
Storytelling" event on Tuesday (http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/
news_and_events/Events/2011/MultiStory.aspx) - Tickets are still
available!
Lance Weiler wrote, experience designed and directed the feature film
Head Trauma and its accompanying alternate reality game and theatre
experience; as well as the alternate reality game Pandemic, which was
selected for the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontiers program. He
runs DIYDays.com, a roving conference for indies and his latest
project is Robot Heart Stories, a participatory storytelling project
for kids. http://www.lanceweiler.com/
David Varela is a TV and Alternate Reality Game producer and writer.
He has worked on alternate reality games such as Sony Xi, Perplex City
and Lewis Hamilton: Secret Life for Nike. Two of the latest projects
he is part of have been crowdfunded, Balance of Powers and Clockwork
Watch: The Arrival. http://www.davidvarela.com/
It is so good they're both in town - so make the most of this
opportunity to chat with two highly experienced and generous
creatives.
Event starts at 7pm, talks at 8pm. It is at The Loop Bar, 23 Meyers
Place, Melbourne. Here is the Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/events/315348545143478/ - sign up so we know
numbers!