The Evolving Media Podcast

Steve Coulson is the creative director over at Campfire, the company that's done a lot of amazing campaigns in the immersive and audience engaging transmedia vein over the years. Some weeks ago Steve caused a bit of a stir by releasing the graphic novel "Summer Island", a novel created with AI-generated artwork. As everyone can imagine, it's been fairly polarising, with some seeing a threat where others see possibilities. Very timely, Steve also released his second novel today - "Exodus"! Today we'll talk AI, art, and the future of content! Enjoy!

We're back! In this episode I talk to the prolific Sandra Lehner about utilization of NFTs in the world of media, about what the world of TV can learn from e-sports, about the need to build audience and actually engage with them and about how Gen Z is approaching their roles as consumers and increasingly producers. Check out Sandra on her LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandralehner and enjoy the episode! As always, please do like, share and all that jazz! We'll be back with the next episode in a couple of weeks!

Welcome to a new episode of the Evolving Media podcast. In today’s episode I’ll be talking to Claudia Rinke, who’s a bestselling and award-winning author and the creator and screenwriter of the documentary film NOW - available later this spring - about the climate movement. The film features add-ons such as a podcast-series, and is an example of the interest she haves for narratives of vision and the Collective Journey. Let’s dive into it! Links for the episode: Claudia on new narratives and the Collective Journey https://www.innovatorsmag.com/future-chapters-ours-to-write/ The documentary film NOW https://climatewarriors.wfilm.de/now/drehbuchautorin_644/ Participant https://participant.com/ Hafencity University https://www.hcu-hamburg.de/

For almost a year the COVID-19 pandemic has created a number of obstacles not only for our everyday life, but also for creatives and producers all over the world. At the same time, new projects featuring ways of engaging and telling stories have cropped up around the globe, as lockdowns and Zoom calls have become integrated parts of our existence. One of these projects is called “Play Inside” - a very interesting way of letting the audience become part of the narrative, fostering understanding and empathy. In today’s episode, I’m thrilled to have been able to have a chat with Rosie Poebright. Rosie’s the Creative Director at Splash & Ripple, PhD researcher in the Embodied Story at University of the West of England, and now co founder of Play Inside, a new form of experiential podcast which brings an immersive theatrical audio experience to your home.

In this episode we do a deep dive into the world of documentary filmmaking and the change (some would say long overdue change) that we're witnessing at the moment. Old models don't necessarily work anymore, and we desperately need to learn how to navigate new realities... while at the same time taking into consideration a whole set of new challenges and possibilities. Joining me for this talk is Louise Rosen. With over 25 years of experience of the documentary filmmaking industry, her company Louise Rosen Ltd (LRL) provides services to filmmakers including guidance on project development, editorial review at all stages of production, strategies for fundraising, distribution and festival planning, sales agency for project financing and distribution of finished films. LRL projects have included Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, and other award-winning films and have been released across all platforms. Enjoy! If you find this interesting, please share, comment, recommend and subscribe. Thank you! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

Some of my formative media years were spent in the TV format industry, which back in the days was a creative hotbed for new ideas with the potential to go global basically overnight. Today the industry looks different in many ways. There is no one better to talk to about the future of TV formats and how they could potentially find a purpose in today's media world than Jan Salling. Formerly of Banijay, Nordic World, Zodiak and FRAPA, he now heads up the Nordic division of BBC. If there's something he doesn't know about TV formats, it's probably not worth knowing. Welcome! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

These are surreal and horrifying times we're living in, and I hope each listener to this episode are safe and sound. I've seldom felt that a podcast episode I've made been more pertinent than this one though. We've talked about the Collective Journey (https://blog.collectivejourney.com/) on this podcast before. Never had I thought I'd experience the entire world living one out as we are today. I'm very happy to be able to have a new chat with Jeff Gomez for this episode. Join us as we dive into what this all means, and how we can help our collective story play out in a way that will benefit humanity on the whole. Do join in the discussion! Hit me or Jeff up on any social media platform where you can find us, or comment on this episode. Let's make the best of this! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In this episode of the Evolving Media podcast I’m joined by Topaz Adizes, writer, director and experience designer. Through the experience design studio he founded called The Skin Deep he’s won an Emmy with their project The And, won two world Press photo awards for immersive experiences and is continuously exploring new ways to interact with the audience. Join us for a talk on that most crucial thing today, how humans can connect in the digital age. Enjoy! Links for this episode: thedig.tv | theand.us To learn more about the skin deep - theskindeep.com Purchase the card games at www.theskindeep.com/shop Topaz' personal site - topazadizes.com Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

Today I’m joined by Michael J Maguire, i.e. @clevercelt, Creator, Founder, Teacher, Speaker and much more. With a career spanning decades in everything from games to digital literature, and with a knowledge base rivalled by few, join Michael and me as we explore gamification, technology’s impact on us, marketing and the media, from the heyday of the Commodore 64 to what the future might bring in the way of AI and more (although in fairness we had to save the most of that chat to the next episode Michael’ll be in :). Enjoy! And yeah - share, comment, etc and so on. Thank you! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In this episode of the Evolving Media podcast we’ll be talking about the world of social media - where we’re going, how it can be utilised best and whether bots will simply drown everything else out in the end. To get some answers to these questions, I chat with Gavin McGarry, CEO of Jumpwire Media. Gavin started up the social media agency ten years ago and clients include the likes of Red Bull, BBC, Formula One and so on. Enjoy! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In this episode we meet with Lucy McRae, body architect, filmmaker, science fiction artist, innovator and all around a person who pushed the boundaries of who we are and what we could become. A note on the sound quality - connections were breaking up, so you will hear some glitches throughout the episode. Apologies! As always, if you find this interesting, do consider sharing, commenting, rating and subscribing! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In this episode of The Evolving Media Podcast my guest is Nicole van Schaik from Doc Society and the Good Pitch Network. One of the greatest goals anyone of us can have with the projects we’re working on is to affect some real change in the world. That’s exactly what the Good Pitch Network is about, and that’s what this episode is going to look at - how we can plan our projects from the get-go in order to have as great an impact as possible, how new models can allow us to find new funding models and how we need to tweak our own creative minds to take full advantage of new possibilities. As always, if you find this interesting, do consider sharing, commenting, rating and subscribing! Helpful links: https://goodpitch.org, https://docsociety.org/projects/#impactfieldguide Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In episode 21 of the Evolving Media podcast Christian Fonnesbech arrives to talk about the future of narratives and the importance of collaborations, as well as the challenges emerging forms of narratives have when it comes to financing. Christian is active with Norwegian CEFIMA, he’s the Head of IP at Nordisk Film Games and the creator of Cloud Chambers - dive in! As always, if you find this interesting - please subscribe, rate, comment, share and so on. The more the merrier! Thank you! The CEFIMA Facebook group discussed in this episode can be found here. Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In this episode I'm joined by Houston Howard of LA Film School, to take a look at the world of media from another angle - that of people just starting to learn the trade. We'll talk about where the new generation is at, what they know and what they lack, and about the need to think cross-disciplinary from the outset, even while still studying. Dive in! As always, if you find this interesting - please subscribe, rate, comment, share. Thank you! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In this episode of the Evolving Media podcast I'm joined by Frank Rose, faculty director at Columbia University and the author of "Art of Immersion". Over at the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia they host an award called "Digital Dozen" each year, celebrating groundbreaking and innovative ways of creating and distributing stories - it's all about "honoring the year's most innovative narratives.". Join us for a talk on this year's winners, what we can learn from the trajectory of the projects awarded over the years, where we're heading overall and that Frank's new book really is going to be about. Welcome! (If you like stuff like this, please share, comment, subscribe and rate! Thank you!) Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

"The opportunities are there to be able to create and grow your brand and engage audiences in new ways, but what it takes is an entrepreneurial mindset to acknowledge the need to hustle, to grind, to learn and to collaborate." In this episode of the Evolving Media podcast I'm joined by Houston Howard, professor at LA Film School, founder at One3Creative and author of the book "You're gonna need a bigger story". Join us as we talk the importance of revenue and an entrepreneurial mindset in creative industries, the art of pitching empathically (and cyberstalking the people you're going to meet) and what opportunities we can identify and grasp in our daily creative work. Welcome! (If you like stuff like this, please share, comment, subscribe and rate! Thank you!) Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

“We need to reconnect with our audiences, in a really deep and meaningful way - and just saying 'we’re going to open the comment section' is not enough [….] it’s a much different job than most journalists are doing today” In this episode of the Evolving Media Podcast we'll take an in-depth look at journalism in 2019 and in the future. There are a lot of challenges facing journalists today - financial challenges, challenges from new and unexpected competitors, the challenge of an ever-more elusive audience, and the challenge to disprove the “fake news” checkmark, over and over again. Where is journalism heading, and what hope is there for journalism's survival - and in what form? Joining me to talk about these challenges and a lot more is Gerald Holubowicz. He’s the Digital Product Manager at the french Liberation newspaper, he keeps tabs on all things journalism and digital over at the journalism.design site and he’s doing in-depth research into the world of Deep Fakes. Enjoy! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

"If you’re going to play with VR, you need to ask yourself 'who is the viewer in that experience, what is his or her place, what is their identity - or do they even have one'. From the script writing phase to the directing phase, this is something we haven’t had to deal with before." In episode 16 of The Evolving Media Podcast, we’ll dip our feet into the exciting waters of virtual reality and immersive storytelling together with someone who knows a lot about that field. Michel Reilhac is a producer, former head of Dutch outfit Submarine, former Head of Film Acquisition at ARTE and a lot more, and is right now the Director of Studies at the Venice Biennale College for VR. We talk about the hype around VR, how we as producers can know our project is suitable for VR, what the first steps should be… and we also divert to Kenya for a brief spell :). Dive in! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

This is the second part of our talk with Caitlin Burns, a producer and business strategist from NYC with a host of productions and projects spanning decades on her CV. In this episode we take on some fundamental questions, such as what crucial decisions need to be made early and during projects, the need for producers and other people in charge to realise the importance of opening clear channels of communication and how that can be done, and a lot more. Dive in! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.

In this episode of the Evolving Media podcast I'm joined by producer, storyteller and strategist Caitlin Burns. Having worked on everything from transmedia worlds for Disney, Hasbro, Sony, Microsoft and so on, to VR experiences, to empowering children to help others via UNICEF's Kid Power band campaign and so much more, Caitlin knows the ins and outs of most aspects when it comes to planning, designing, developing and producing in the media world of today. Join us as we - in this first part of a two-part series - dive into the most crucial things to know and decisions to take when it comes to creating things intended to reach people. Welcome! Music used in the episode: Chris Zabriskie: Readers! Do You Read? Available on a Creative Commons 4.0 License here.