I’ve done a lot of things in my life, and last weekend I added another new experience: I produced my first indie film.
Granted, it’s only an eight-minute short for the 48 Hour Film Project, it was really the baby of Bill Coughlan, my “assistant producer” Kate Gibson probably did more actual producing than I did, and I got totally floored by a 104-degree temperature on the actual day of shooting, but it was a great, wonderful experience, and now I have the bug in more ways than one. While I’m still flat on my back with whatever this virus from Hades actually is, I’m mentally making plans for creating another short film, and then maybe another, and then maybe another…
Heh. Lots of my friends have been bitten by the dramatic bug, but I think I’m only one of a small handful that has no interest whatsoever in appearing in front of the camera. We’ll get Kate and Jess and Talon and their friends to be in front of the camera, Bill or Shannon to direct, David Seitzinger to do the effects, Andy Rozsa and Scott Andrew LaPera to do the music, I’ll do the writing, Kate and I will produce… I love having creative friends. Onward!
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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