Summaries of pitches of strategies
Going to get a video of my MEGA pitch up as soon as I get hold of the (undoubtedly embarrassing) clip, but this is a summary of where The Precinct is now (also a summary of my pitch), as written for the MEGA guys:
THE PRECINCT
Australia doesn’t have its own animated series for adults; a [...]
Animation time again!
The MEGA pitch went really well! Unfortunately, none of the broadcasters or entertainment types Justin invited actually showed! True, the pitches were happening right in the middle of the work day, but still… not good enough, ABC and SBS. You really had something better to do?…
TEN THINGS THE REPS FROM THE ABC MIGHT HAVE BEEN [...]
Proof things are moving along
Here’s the current version of my Farnsy-themed animatic!
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I (and our growing team) just spent a few weeks working on an application to Film Victoria’s Digital Media Prototyping fund. It’s 80 pages long. You could injure someone with it if you swung it at their head. I would never do such [...]
Tear it up
On Wednesday night our MEGA session was about “Financial Feasibility”.
In other words, we’d spent a couple months chucking ideas around in a friendly playpen, and our fearless leader Justin felt the need to dampen our enthusiasm by dropping some people with market experience on us.
One was the afore-pictured (is that a word?) Brendan Lewis, and [...]
Rooms full of people with big brains
Going along to these MEGA sessions and listening to the smart people talk about interesting things reminds me of two other slightly similar gatherings. One I’ve actually been to, and one I’ve just seen bits of on the web.
The one I’ve seen bits of on the web is called TED. Rebecca Clements put me onto [...]
MEGA sessions 3 & 4: market analysis
In the last two MEGA sessions we’ve been spoken to by some industry professionals in of the mobile/online “space” (this is the word ICT people use, and who am I to do different) about what the market’s currently like for mobile phone/devices and related services, where money comes from for the development of these, and [...]
Hello, MEGAteers
Woody The Producer and I have been accepted into the MEGA program. This is how they (eloquently) describe themselves:
MEGA is an Entrepreneurship Masterclass series which takes participants from the mobile, digital content and ICT industries through an industry-driven development program to build their creative, technical and business skills for the development of new products and [...]
