A Live Satellite event in Singapore:
What: An interactive panel discussion on the emerging web series and web show culture in South East Asia. What business models have been proven successful and how can local creators produce entertainment for the Millennial generation.
When: Saturday November 15h, 2014 – 18:00 – 20:30 SGT (GMT +8)
Where: One Maker Group (@ National Design Center) 111 Middle Road #01-02 Singapore 188969 (map)
How: Attendees can bring their own notebooks or tablets in order to be able to participate directly in the Hangouts. We will provide internet access and technical support where needed.
Schedule of events: SGT (GMT +8)
18:00-18:30 Reception/networking
18:30-18:40 Introduction
18:40-19:20 Panel discussion “Web series & shows – content creation for a new audience generation” (live stream)
19:20-19:30 Q&A (live stream)
19:30-20:00 Live Hangout SG/USA
20:00-20:30 Networking/dinner
Brought to you by: Storycode Singapore
StoryCode is an open-source, global community for emerging and established cross-platform and immersive storytellers. By developing, incubating and exhibiting innovative, immersive story forms, StoryCode serves creators, technologists and distributors of cross-platform narrative content.
We invite enthusiasts and professionals alike “to storycode” — simply meaning, to tell a story in a new way, using the bounty of new tools at our disposal.
Born out of the Singapore Transmedia Meetup group the StoryCode Singapore chapter continues to advocate and educate about new forms and formats of narrative experiences set in the media business context of Singapore as well as the South-East Asian region.
StoryCode SG empowers Singaporean creatives and content creators to prototype their ideas and bring them to the next level as well as represent on the international stage via the global StoryCode network.
Event Host: Marco Sparmberg
Marco Sparmberg is an award-winning transmedia producer and content strategist. Holding a MFA degree from Hong Kong Baptist University, he also is lecturer on university level as well as public speaker for new media and digital content strategies. While in Hong Kong, he worked as lead project developer for Salon Films with focus on international co-production and Pan-Asia film finance. In 2012, Marco co-founded Haexagon Concepts, Asia’s first transmedia content and IP management agency dedicated to create and implement new forms of digital, immersive and interactive story formats into the APAC entertainment market. In the following year, he was one of the Transmedia Alliance’s founding members and got selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. While building internationally connected and recognized communities for South-East Asian storytellers and content creators he founded the Hong Kong Webfest as well as the Singapore chapter of StoryCode. In 2014, Marco joined MediaCorp as first ever Transmedia Producer at the Studios Division, developing transmedia extensions and content strategies for the national broadcaster’s prime time programming and tent-pole events.”
PANELISTS:
- Ho Jia Jian (Viddsee)
- Christian Lee, Jason Chan (BananaMana Films)
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Neo Beng Poh (filmmaker at Neoimages)
More info on the UGPFF
- UGPFF Schedule here:You may interact with this live event via at anytime once the festival begins on Saturday November 15, 2014 at 1:00 pm NZDT (GMT+13)RSVP to the whole festival here: