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 f…

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 …

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 th…

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. …

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 challenge…

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 toda…

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 th…

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 a…

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 th…

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 year…

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 inte…

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 …

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 Ch…

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 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 abo…

"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 One3Cre…

“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 l…

"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 i…

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 …

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 ou…

"We’re throwing all the money at news and social media, which I think is like pissing your pants. If you put all your money into creating content for social media channels, you’re just sleeping with the enemy. We’re turning our audience - who should be regarded as citizens we work for - into products." Kåre V Poulsen is a producer and manager of in…

The year 1999 saw a lot of things, from people freaking out over Y2K to the debut of music downloading service Napster and many many other things. It also saw a small horror film with a small budget but a huge buzz making its premiere at Sundance. Twenty years later "The Blair Witch Project" had its 20th anniversary screening at Sundance. A first o…

In this episode Christy Dena stops by for an in-depth talk about a crucial aspect of today's reality for storytellers and creators - the need to look at what the audience will be experiencing and designing with the audience transformation in mind, a process and a way of creating that puts some quite unique demands on the creative minds of us all. I…

In this episode of the Evolving Media podcast I'm joined by Bernie Su, known for creating and running projects like The Lizzie Bennett Diaries, Emma Approved and Vanity. As audiences' expectations of their media experiences change, so we as creators have an obligation - or a possibility, or a challenge - to change how we create our stories to inclu…

"It’s still the most rare thing in the world, to be genuinely heard, to be listened to… and that’s at the core of any fandom." My guest for this episode is Jeff Gomez of Starlightrunner Entertainment, with decades of experience of creating storyworlds and narratives for ventures big and small, and one of the main champions of the Collective Journey…

Lance Weiler has been exploring the frontiers of storytelling for decades in his many projects. Last year the project "Frankenstein A.I. - a monster made by many" launched, a "immersive theatre, installation and collaborative storytelling" project using "AI, IoT, Projection Mapping, Algorithmic visual, audio and movement systems". AI might be intri…

My guest for the seventh episode of The Evolving Media Podcast is Tomas Lindh, executive producer for development and online at Swedish public service broadcaster SVT. Tomas has created numerous projects and shows in Finland and Sweden and reached a global audience with the documentary project "Breaking the Cycle" in 2017. We'll be discussing the c…

I'm thrilled to have Sandra Lehner back on the podcast, to talk more about Generation Z. It's a creative, caring, sometimes conservative but always expressive generation, and working for and with them as a content creator is a challenge. In this episode we dive into Gen Z, what the best examples of storytelling for that particular generation we've …

The world of e-sports, streaming and gaming is a fascinating one from a lot of different angles, the ones of audience outreach, engagement and interaction not least. Joining me for this episode is Angela Natividad, co-founder of Hurrah , the first creative agency that is 100% devoted to e-sports. We talk about all (or at least many :) ) things e-sp…

The world documentary filmmaking is facing some challenging times when it comes to financing, production as well as distribution. The old models for all of these areas are still in effect, but they no longer fully answer to the needs documentary filmmakers have today. Not to mention the rapidly changing habits of the audience and the need to adequa…

Jeff Gomez from Starlight Runner Entertainment has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to creating stories and story worlds that resonate with and engage audiences. Lately Jeff's been championing the theory of a Collective Journey slowly taking over the role that the traditional Hero's Journey has occupied in the narratives of different media prope…

Mike Monello of Campfire NYC has an extensive track record of creating content that millions of people engage with, often as additions to already successful titles such as Westworld, Game of Thrones, Sense8 etc. Their latest venture, however, sees them starting out pretty much from scratch - with a horror-genre drama podcast. Well be spending Episo…

The inaugural episode of this podcast is a talk with Sandra Lehner, whom I had the pleasure of moderating a talk for at the Leipzig Networking Days, invited by Documentary Campus. In this episode we'll take a look at Generation Z - who they are, what their media habits are and how traditional media producers can hope to reach and engage with them. …