RIK LANDER
Rik is a director, producer and copy writer across multiple platforms like TV, web, live events and social media. Credits include TV commercials for Low Cost Holidays, EDF Energy and Playstation, and interactive ads for E! Entertainment and HP. He's also made TV series from The Word to the Turner Prize, the BBC's first interactive soap and a No1 music video. Rik also engages in funded research into new digital formats such as 'pervasive dramas' where the audience are characters and the story emerges around the city across multiple mediaEssential workshops and consultancy on cross-platform media
Q. What the hell is pervasive, cross-platform transmedia and how will it affect how I work?
A. Do one of Rik's workshops and explore the exciting possibilities offered by social, mobile and interactive media.
Rik's next course is THE ESSENTIAL 360 PRACTICAL PRODUCING
Date TBC
at DV TALENT
Studio 531 Highgate Studios, 53-79 Highgate Road, London.Skillset subsidy available.
Rik Lander offers a one day course for producers and producer directors who are making cross-platform projects or wish to move into making cross-platform projects. It is an introduction to the practical skills required to oversee the creation of cross-platform projects – whatever the platforms.
As is appropriate for its subject matter, the course is highly interactive with the participants discovering many of the solutions in exercises rather than passively receiving instruction. It covers the day to day overseeing of projects and the bigger questions of how to create relationships with new partner organisations.
Details here
In 2010 he devised and ran The Essential 360 Storytelling Lab, a five day, hands on, exploration of the possibilities of cross-platform documentary and fiction creation. This concluded with a live IPTV transmission from the National Film and Television School to the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol, where a live audience were able to test the interactive creations of the course participants. Excellent fun and very informative.