Media Futures for students
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Forces shaping the world of the soon to graduate media student
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Media Futures for students
- 2. CONTENTS 1. You, 2. Your Work, 3. Exemplars
- 3. 1. Let’s think about you
- 4. “To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- 5. Your Working Life 50+ years of work Economic instability Lack of consensus Rapid skills change Constant contracting Automation of professional jobs Globalization/ migration Democratic tech & connectivity Maker Culture Self Employment
- 6. Context: new landscape Creativity Tech Business Ecommerce Big Data, Maths, Prediction Hardware and External Devices New Architectures, Experience and social Philosophy, Creativity Mobile, Context Sensitivity Gameplay Behaviour and Psychology Content
- 7. Able to tell stories, make compelling experiences, create things that people want to talk about and share, communicate Creativity Tech Business Able to understand the potential of available tech and to exploit them to tell your story to your best Able to understand the commercial impacts of what you do and how to make enough money to live, create and grow
- 8. RISE OF THE ARTISAN TECHNOLOGIST RE-EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN
- 10. It’s unlikely you will work for an old school media business
- 12. Skills needed to prosper Broad and deep core education Ability to search, verify and filter Presentation, Pitching, Working with people Ability to think laterally Mindset of constant enquiry Continuing learning – Constant reskilling Mentoring and Guidance Constant Connections Intelligence, Intelligence, Intelligence Personal Branding
- 13. 2. Let’s think about your work
- 14. “If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life
- 15. Trends ▸Post Web ▸Post App ▸Connectedness ▸IoT ▸Frictionless sharing ▸Smartness ▸Iteration and fast fail ▸2nd gen YouTubers (& others)
- 16. Impact on what you do, 1 Make content that causes people to share it/talk about it THINK, WHY WOULD SOMEONE SHARE IT?
- 17. Impact on what you do, You have to have a story that can extend off screen THINK, WHY WOULD THEY TALK ABOUT IT?
- 18. Impact on what you do, If it’s playable, is it easy & rewarding to play? THINK, HOW MUCH DO YOU HAVE TO LEARN IT?
- 23. Most people think interactive storytelling is like this but we have seen things like this for over twenty years http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/high-rise/ Newer tech has opened up newer possibilities http://www.google.co.uk/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/ Like this, which is EMMY award winning http://www.pemberleydigital.com/emma-approved/ Wow! Country music star turned pop star wins best interactive TV emmy http://www.justjared.com/2015/09/10/taylor-swift-wins-original-interactive- program-emmy-award/ A long time ago http://www.starwarsuncut.com/
- 24. QUBE 1978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-tRWnHrUnw&feature=related Computer that writes folk songs http://motherboard.vice.com/read/livingston-the-computer-that-writes-folk-music-is-too-good-to-be-real Crowdfunded Star Trek http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/ Interactive Installations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaUt5CbpI0 An Interactive Story http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com