Digital Media Alliance Florida

Join Us for the Mar 26 DiMeNar

jamie — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:36:10 +0000

“Convergence Technopolis: The Case for Central Florida as a World-Class Emerging Media & Technology Region.”

Join us from 6:00pm to 9:30pm in the Darden Theater of the Orlando Science Center for “Convergence Technopolis: The Case for Central Florida as a World-Class Emerging Media & Technology Region.”

Meet Florida Film Commissioners, Paul Sirmons and Lucia Fishburne.Learn about the current real successes achieved by the Don Davis Entertainment Industry Economic Development Act and its potential in the future.

Discover how you can participate across workforce, industry, education and economic development to further support the growth and vitality of Digital Media and Convergence industries in Florida.

Free Admission, Hot Hors d’Oeuvres & Cash Bar

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Upcoming Events

jamie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:28:04 +0000

Media Talk Interviews DMAF

jfrench — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:28:25 +0000

Jud French was a guest on Tampa Bay’s Media Talk June 8th. Video below:

Florida’s Digital Media Industry has a New Incentive Program

jamie — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:38:34 +0000

WE DID IT! DMAF led a successful industry-wide effort to enact new legislation providing millions of dollars of incentive funding to qualified Florida digital media projects. These include “interactive entertainment which is produced for distribution in commercial or educational markets, including a video game, simulation or animation, or a production intended for Internet or wireless distribution.”

Applications to the Governor’s Office of Film and Entertainment will be accepted starting July 1, 2007. To find out more,keep checking DMAFlorida.org, our forums or here in the blogs.Contact: Natalie Edwards Governor’s Office of Film and Entertainment, (877) 352-3456 or Natalie.Edwards@MyFlorida.com.

Many thanks to the members of DMAF’s Legislative and Government Affairs Committee, the Florida Alliance of Media & Entertainment, and the Governor’s Office of Film & Entertainment for this tremendous group effort!We’ll be celebrating the signing of the Don Davis Entertainment Industry Economic Development Act at DMAF’s June 6 Convergence networking event. It is also the Opening Reception for the Film Florida Annual Meeting…You won’t want to miss it!Meet lots of great entertainment industry folks and find out about incentive dollars available for your projects!5 pm Digital Media Panel Session6-8 pm ReceptionLocation: (Google Maps Link)Italian Club in Ybor CityL’Unione Italiana1731 East Seventh AvenueTampa, Florida 33605

Full Sail All a-Buzz

jamie — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:53:04 +0000

Nationally Syndicated Morning Show to Relocate to Full Sail Campus
The Daily Buzz Moving to New State-of-the-Art Facilities

WINTER PARK, FL, May 15, 2007 — Full Sail Real World Education and ACME Communications (NASDAQ: ACME) announced today that The Daily Buzz, ACME’s leading nationally syndicated morning show, will move to the Full Sail campus in Winter Park, Florida beginning June 2007. As part of the relocation from its original location in Orlando, The Daily Buzz will move to a new facility with state-of-the-art technology on the Full Sail campus.

Launched in 2002, The Daily Buzz is a three-hour morning news program that has successfully become an alternative to the common older-skewing network news and paid programs. The Daily Buzz reaches a much younger demographic (18-49 year olds) and currently airs on 144 stations, including all of ACME’s CW Network affiliated stations, The CW 100+ Cable Group, and many of the CBS-owned CW stations. The program currently reaches approximately 39 percent of U.S. households, or 44 million television households.

“The Daily Buzz is succeeding in changing the way typical morning news programs are produced and delivered, while providing stations with new and better inventory for advertisers,” said Doug Gealy, President and Chief Operating Officer of ACME Communications. “That mission has remained unchanged and our ongoing commitment to the show is reflected, after a national search for a new facility, in our decision to move to Full Sail, a dynamic and creative epicenter in Central Florida. We look forward to settling into our new facility and expect a long and fruitful relationship with Full Sail.”

“We greatly appreciate that The Daily Buzz and ACME Communications values the education of young professionals. Having The Daily Buzz on the Full Sail campus brings numerous opportunities to our students each day,” said Ken Goldstone, COO for Full Sail. “The ability for students to participate in the production of a successful nationally televised live broadcast is invaluable and is consistent with our real world education philosophy.”

“This is a great move for the state,” Paul Sirmons, Florida’s film commissioner in Governor Charlie Crist’s office, further added. “We not only get a very popular, nationally syndicated TV show to remain in Central Florida, but students at Full Sail get hands-on experience. That kind of credit on a resume will really help those students once they graduate. It’s truly a win-win situation.”

Digital Content Creation Market to Grow to Nearly $5 Billion in 2012

jamie — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:01:28 +0000

Source RedOrbit

Jon Peddie Research announces the release of the 2007 Digital Content Creation Report. This year’s report includes sections on 3D modeling and Animation, 2D Animation, Digital Video, Graphics and Imaging, and Audio.

The digital content creation market has seen a healthy period of growth.

The total DCC market grew 16% from $2.6 billion to reach more than $3 billion in 2006. The fastest growing segments in the future will be interactive development and video as the web offers new distribution networks and new programming approaches such as AJAX to enable small compelling applications to be developed that extend the power of individual web sites.

Jon Peddie Research predicts the market will reach $4.9 billion by 2012 reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 10%.

“We are seeing big shifts in the digital content creation market. For example there have been game changing moves by Adobe with the acquisition of Macromedia and Serious Magic, Autodesk’s acquisition of Alias and Colorfront and Google’s acquisition of Sketchup and YouTube. The landscape is changing right in front of us all. It’s all good, but companies are going to have to be nimble to adapt,” says Kathleen Maher, Senior Analyst at Jon Peddie Research and author of the DCC Report.

Mobile Media Multitasking Mania

jfrench — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:04:35 +0000

As a gadget-freak with a long history of multitasking (I started playing the drums at age 10, and would be lost with out my Palm Treo’s phone- pda- MP3 player- camera- videocam- IM- web- email- reminder capabillities…) Steve Lohr’s article in the March 25th NYT, “Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic“, was of particular interest to me personally.As our industry explores, develops and encourages the many uses of mobile digital media devices (see DMAF’s June 2005 DiMeNar, “Digital Media Content on Mobile Devices and Platforms: What does the future hold?” and “Digital Media is…” multimedia segment we must make a concerted effort to remain aware of the latest research that addresses the effects, benefits and risks of their use under a variety of conditions, in a variety of situations. Future research in this area is bound to be controversial and the subject of future legislation, so DMAF will endeavor to identify and hightlight materials that allow our members to make and encourage responsible decisions.If you run across any articles, blogs or video features on this topic, please send them along and we will post the information.