I’m looking forward to Sarah Austin’s presentation. She’s live streaming from the workshop now on Justin.tv — check it out now and you’ll get to enjoy some of the speakers.
I’ll do a blog round-up on the workshop when it’s all done.
I’m back in Canada after a week in Warsaw at the Input Conference for public broadcasters. In addition to attending, I had the opportunity to present one of the programs that I do the interactive production for. I’m really pleased that both the program and my presentation were very well received by the audience. I had lots of people come and speak to me after about how we use the internet to cast the show and build an audience leading up to the broadcast. That show is always a fun project and I’m glad it received enthusiastic attention from an international audience.
In addition to my part, I got to take in a lot of other multi-platform projects as well as straight television programs from every part of the world. I saw soap operas from Palestine, documentaries from Iran, talk shows from Denmark, game shows from South Korea and more. It was interesting to see what’s happening outside of the North American media market that I normally experience.
The dialog about what role public broadcasters are taking globally in an increasing commercialized and multi-screen media world was interesting as well. I didn’t realize that most public broadcasters skew to the 50+ crowd. All of us need to grow more in the younger markets.
Myself and some of the other people that I work with that also attended the conference are organizing a mini-Input for our co-workers this fall, but for my readers now, I leave you with links to some of the projects that I saw when I was there.
Here’s a clip from Neveneffecten (armageddon episode that I saw) where one lonely nerd is returning home after the world learns that a giant comet is attracted to him and will collide with earth, ending all life as a result.
I had to pick a clip where there wasn’t much speech — I saw the show subtitled. Anyway, if you’d like to see some international shows, check out some of these projects and enjoy!
I’m flying to Poland today to attend and present at the 2009 Input conference which is an international conference for public broadcasters. I’ll be speaking about multi-platform production for one of the reality shows I work on. It’s a great opportunity — I can’t wait to get on the plane!
I don’t know if the conference sessions have wi-fi available. If they do, I’ll post some thoughts on Twitter as I go or if not, maybe write a few posts in the hotel.
Everyone I’ve spoken to that has gone to this conference tells me it’s a great experience. I’m hoping to get some inspiration and new ideas to take back to work with me.
