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Program 2010
This year, from October 26-28, Symposium 2010 will be held in partnership with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Bringing media industry stakeholders together with non-broadcast public institutions, this three-day industry conference offers content creators a novel opportunity to forge relationships with media execs from museums, parks, aquariums, zoos and other public organizations. From gallery installations and interactive kiosks, to handheld video podcast and web-distribution, the conference will explore the latest technology and visionary media applications as well as develop opportunities for innovative artistic, educational outreach in exhibits and on the web.
2010 Symposium Pitch Sessions
Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Filmmaking at American University
Each day of the Symposium, up to 10 projects will be selected for a dynamic live pitching opportunity. These sessions will be moderated by Chris Palmer and the 7-minute presentations will have full AV support. They will be immediately followed by an end-of-day cocktail and networking reception to encourage lots of discussion and feedback.
Tuesday, Oct 26: Content creators seeking institutional collaborators
Wednesday, Oct 27: 3D projects seeking partners *note any 3D media must be compatible with Dolby 3D system requirements
Thursday, Oct 28: Institutions & NGOs seeking media partners
For Requirements & Guidelines please click here.
Call for Presentations & Session Topics Opens: April 1st
Call for Speakers Opens: June 1st
Program 2008
Media Applications
Creating dynamic media that can be applied across delivery platforms simply makes good sense. Learn how to manage the creative, production, and delivery needs of multi-platform use, from theater or exhibit display, to web distribution and podcast downloads.
Real-time systems, high definition, 3D digital projection, and stunning audio all contribute to an experience that is much more than star gazing. The modern digital planetarium is a more flexible and powerful medium than ever before, creating new paradigms for producers and exhibitors, alike.
Technology is changing the way we define an exhibition. Visitors expect more sophisticated, immersive experiences. As a result, the whole concept of what an exhibit is, has changed, inviting visitor participation and moving beyond the museum’s walls.
Hand held units and podcast downloads offer engaged and personal interpretative opportunities, and increase accessibility through multilingual formatting. The newest platforms and features.
Innovative use of media can transcend barriers and inspire. Attract and engage visitors with media that complements your institutional mandate and extends your educational mission through powerful interactive opportunities. From remote live-streaming and presenting niche events to virtual exhibits and web-based experiences, technology has opened the door for new opportunities to make an impact where it actually counts—on a personal level.
Overcoming institutional obstacles and finding funding can be a brutal and painstaking process. Creative financing strategies and different business models for project underwriting across the spectrum. From federal grants to subscription or pay per view downloads, and guerilla distribution, the possibilities are rich and varied.
Is it feasible to co-create relevant content, sharing the cost and broadening the impact? Learn what producers are looking for as they seek institutional partners, as well as the unique programming needs of institutional venues. Partnerships have inherent challenges, but the rich opportunities for collaboration have yielded amazing results.
Learn about global programs that are taking institutional knowledge into the public domain, literally opening new worlds of information to the broadest possible user group—everyone in the world. It is the epic opportunity of the digital age.
Here is your chance to meet informally with commissioning editors from National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, and other major international broadcasters, as well as representatives from independent production companies and NGOs looking for program ideas and potential collaborations. Come armed with copies of project proposals to leave behind.
In a final plenary session, Symposium visionaries offer provocative observations on what emerged through the week--where we stand, where we want to be going, and what is standing in the way.
Production, Technology & Equipment
From tapeless cameras and the range of HD acquisition tools, technology has become accessible to even the smallest institutions. Users examine the latest tools available, with a mind toward what is looming on the horizon.
How to deploy your content and maintain the highest quality possible using digital video and audio…it’s not as expensive as you think. Inexpensive high definition cameras, portable, nonlinear editing systems and high quality stock libraries for both images and audio provide accessible tools that make it possible to create high value programming on a budget. Developing an in-house media division--from the ground, up.
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In the complicated world of multiplatform media, the decisions you make regarding format origination and post pathway to delivery format and sound mix decisions, are critical. A guide to project-driven production and post production pathways, identifying the key decisions that will determine the best road to travel.
New Media—New Opportunities
Untangling the Web
Users have become active co-creators of their media, commerce and entertainment distributing via peer-to-peer networks around the world. From social networks to viral marketing and web streaming, the internet has become a pervasive and integral component of the nonbroadcast media market.
From repurposing content and digitizing archives to expanding revenue streams and attracting new patrons, viral marketing and guerilla distribution pathways have fundamentally changed the nature of our audiences and how we reach them
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The web offers more than a distribution method: a new genre has emerged. Adopting storytelling traditions to this global and pervasive, interactive network, has huge power to influence attitudes and behavior and offers exciting opportunities for even the smallest institutions.
Learn how the applications in the Final Cut Studio suite work seamlessly together, allowing you to create media for multiple distribution outlets. From high definition broadcast to exhibit hall monitors to podcasts, find out how Final Cut Studio adds production value to your media and helps you engage your viewers. Special sessions will focus on Learn the production of specific deliverables in multiple formats from podcasting to web dvds, with specific workflow sessions with Sony and Panasonic.
From nano to the galactic, the domed environment is a natural way to recreate how the brain absorbs information. Dramatic examples of the three dimensional experience, including the recently released Denver Museum of Nature & Science production, Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity.
Accessible tools, format standardization and digital workflow make this medium available to any creative producer. We’ll break it down, using recently shot footage and screen Minnesota Planetarium productions: Listening to the Northern Lights, and Exploring the Arctic.
Immersive environments offer more than simply cinematic display. From satellite download and domecasting to 3D experiential storytelling, this is a true multiplatform medium, with live uplinks with NASA scientists and West Africa’s first planetarium and juried selections from DomeFest, 2008.
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