film
Cinema City: history brought to life with digital development
Glasgow Film, comprising Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, is the west of Scotland’s leading independent cultural cinema.Glasgow Film’s Cinema City project connects visitors and residents to the fascinating cinema heritage of the city. Back in the cinema-going heyday of the 1930s, Glasgow had more cinemas per head than anywhere else in the world,…
Augmented Reality Brochures: Manipulate Festival of Visual Theatre video showcase
One of the limitations around a paper marketing brochure is that that it can’t show or tell you how attending an event will feel. A more multisensory experience can though, and the Manipulate Festival of Visual Theatre, which shows innovative international theatre and film, have used an augmented reality (AR) platform called Layar to bring…
macrobert share! Simulcasting & Social Media Policy for Working with Children and Young People
Stirlingshire’s arts centre based on Stirling University’s campus, macrobert, has recently undertaken the AmbITion Approach, and has made some immediate decisions around digital developments. Last night saw macrobert’s first ever screening of an NTLive production, Coriolanus. The show sold out, with War Horse, NTLive’s February simulcast selling out within minutes of being put on sale!…
EIFF: clipped wings increases span of programme
It’s good to see the Edinburgh International Film Festival jettison its strained efforts to “keep up with the Cannes-es”. Reduced funding this year has clipped the Film Festival’s wings in terms of the amount of high profile stars appearing for red carpet premieres. But the clipped wings have resulted in innovative programming around the enduring…
The Long Tail will wag
Slate magazine reports research that questions whether Chris Anderson’s theory about the “long tail” in the digital world might actually be wrong…with the move to a “long tail” being very slight – and the tail itself very flat. However, I think differently. I believe that The Long Tail has created new paradigms, and the movie…
Live experience of the virtually created
You thought that gamers and MySpacers were geeks and holed-up-in-their-bedroom freaks, right? Well check out the latest LIVE experiences created by and for these audiences: audiences who interact massively online, but who can be tempted out – by massively creative/arts projects offering innovative content! Video Games Live is a live orchestral celebration of video game…