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Xover Networking Day, originally uploaded by FrankBoyd.
Topics of the day where business models for new media content, development of new media content for kids, IP and legal structures for new media collaboration, funding, commissions and the issues around cross-media delivery.
I had great chats afterwards with Dan Hon, Sixtostart and Richard Land, Illumina. Questions where raised about how to get paid for producing content. I think an important insight is to look at what services you could deliver e.g creation of attractive meeting points that meet a market need rather than just produce content.
On the train back to London we were a bunch of geeks including David Bovill, Dave Sag, Cathy Skinner, Dorigen and Mark Atkin that talked so intensively that we where degraded from first class to second class.
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Innovation by
malii on February 19, 2009
14092008494, originally uploaded by jasondaponte.
Wow it´s been a while since I wrote a post here!
The Launch of the first Crossover Nordic 2008 was a fantastic journey, including a lot of sweat. It went well and the response from partners and participants have been great. The Crossover labs model was adapted to the Nordic market, including strategies, infrastructure, translation work and coordination of a large amount of partners.
Crossover Nordic 2008 has been a pilot for a Nordic development lab for content and cross media projects based on the international model created by Frank Boyd, Unexpected Media and Heather Croall, Sheffield Doc Fest. Creators from different Media sectors and backgrounds including Mobile, Animation, Games, Film, TV and New Media, collaborates on the delivery of Cross Media projects using emerging platforms and new media.
21 Creators from the Nordic Countries plus international mentors, Frank Boyd, Unexpected Media and BBC Innovation lab, Heather Croall, Sheffield Doc Fest, Paula Le Dieu, Magic Lantern Productions, Mark Aitkin, SBS Australia, Neil Richards, The Mustard Corporation and Jason Daponte, BBC Mobile, participated in a one week “full on” lab at Slussens Pensionat, Orust. Read more on Jason Dapontes blog.
The Final Pitch of Crossover Nordic the 28th of September was held at Nordisk Panorama. 70 guests were invited and moderator for the pitch was Frank Boyd. 6 Groups pitched their final projects in front of a Jury and for a development sum of 100 000 SEK
The Jury was:
Erik Robertson, Nordic Game program, Sweden
Are Nundal, SVTi, Sweden
Anders Karlsson, Telia Sonera, Sweden
Klara Grunning, Kudos Family, Norway
Tomas Eskilsson, Film i Väst, Sweden
Commissioners and Financiers were invited and were given the opportunity to back the projects with development money. Further development discussions have been held after the pitch with several groups and their projects. See projects below and who participated at the Final Pitch.
The Winning Project was “Our Secret Society” with Andreas Öhman, Splinter Arts, Oskar Mellander, Royale and Gila Bergqvist Ulfung, Breidablick.
Crossover Nordic 2008 was financed by 9 funding partners, SVT, Film i Väst, Nordic Game Program, Region Västra Götaland, Center of Visualization, Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film and TV Fund and Moving Media Southern Sweden, plus Supported by Partners, Nordisk Panorama, Filmkontakt Nord and Telia Sonera.
Crossover Nordic was Produced by Martin Malii-Karlsson, BLaO Media.
Apply now for the very first Crossover Nordic that is about to take place in Sweden between 15-19 September.
It is a five-day residential content/cross media development lab aimed at experienced and established creators of Game, Film, TV, Animation, Mobile or New Media in the Nordic region.
The lab is free for all the 20 selected participants. They will be selected by an expert committee from different media sectors.
All experienced and talented professionals from the Nordic Countries are eligible to apply and one project are eligible to win a development prize of 100 000 SEK.
A final pitch of the results from the lab will be held at the Nordisk Panorama Five Cities Film Festival in Malmö the 28 of September.
Click here for more info
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Video and Film by
malii on February 10, 2008
Photo by Anders Billing: Henrik Toremark (kulturdepartementet), Ingemar Persson (SVT) och Charlotta Denward (Filminstitutet).
Frank Boyd and I did a Crossover talk at Gothenburg Film Festival the 28 of January, a day focussed on the Nordic Documentary Industry. (With a bad cold), I explained the vision about setting up a Crossover Nordic, a development lab for content in September this year and introduced Frank Boyd who talked about his experience in running successful Crossover labs in Australia, U.S and the U.K.
I have so far confirmed partnership and funding from SVT and Film i Väst and am in speech with more Nordic Public Broadcasters, Mobile phone operators, Film funds and National Film Institutes to participate. We are aiming to link up with Nordisk Panorama who run their festival in Malmoe, Sweden this year.
The interest has been great and I have convinced broadcasters, film institutes and regional funders in the Nordic to be partners in a lab next year. I invited Desirée Engholm, Commissioner from SVTi (Swedish TV) to come over to the U.K for one day to study the lab. SVTi has now decided to be one of the partners in the Nordic version next year.
In the Crossover U.K everybody was really open to share ideas and to collaborate.
Frank Boyd describes the U.K version on his blog www.unexpectedmedia.com. “Crossover UK, which finished on Friday, was probably the best of the 35 creative labs we’ve done in the past 10 years. Good people, good projects, great pitches on the final day. Roy Ackerman, creative director of Diverse, described it as: ‘an inspiration, enjoyable, creatively empowering, almost life-changing’.
The Crossover labs differ from the BBC Innovation Labs in that people don’t come in teams and they don’t come with a project. The point is to get people from different backgrounds (film, tv, games, animation, web design) generating ideas and working together in interdisciplinary collaborations to develop them.
It’s a demanding creative process designed to be accessible and engaging at the beginning but which quite quickly encourages participants to move beyond their comfort-zones.
The ride can get quite bumpy, one of the documentary film producers said: “It was a remarkable week and I felt extremely privileged to have been part of it…I may have resisted at moments, but it’s given me a lot of food for thought, and since I like challenges, at least of the creative kind, then I am grateful for the push”.
Some of the projects developed at Crossover will take part in a pitching competition for a £10,000 development award at the Sheffield DocFest in November.”
