Client: New Media Manitoba
Video Profile Series
This year, our New Media Manitoba Video Showcase featured seven stories of amazing Interactive Digital Media companies on The Metropolitan Entertainment Centre's giant multi‑story screen.
This ties together one year of shooting, editing, titles and motion graphics into videos that will inspire, entertain, and remind you why Manitoba is an excellent place for new media companies to thrive.
Indie Game: The Movie is a 2012 documentary film by filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot. As one of the earliest film projects on Kickstarter, Indie Game was a project that lived through the internet from the very beginning. Lisanne and James share some of their strategy to promote the digital life of their film through the entire process of creating it: in funding, building their audience, production, and distribution. Read more a detailed breakdown of the content discussed in this video on New Media Manitoba's website.
With 14 apps live on the Shopify App Store, consistently in the top rankings, and many more in development. Following the focus of "How can we make the store owner more money?", the range of apps Bold has created allows stores to bundle, price, promote and build their products in more engaging ways. Read more a detailed breakdown of the content discussed in this video on New Media Manitoba's website.
Presenting yourself effectively on social platform requires serious effort and strategy, which is why Dash has team members dedicated to each individual part of their campaigns. Dash helps brands and organizations reach out and connect directly with consumers.
Virtual Reality is coming quickly, and it is poised to change everything. Although there is no consumer-ready product to date, the technology is developing extremely rapidly, and the potential applications are wide reaching: from a consumer gaming device (see racing games as a perfect example), to educational and training simulations, to entirely new ways to discover the world around us, VR will allow entire categories to be re-invented with new energy from interactive.
Digital media is offering new opportunities for collaboration between traditional linear producers and the interactive community. Media production companies are taking advantage of these multiple mediums in order to make their content richer.
Manitoba has a strong health care sector, guided in good hands by the Life Science Association of Manitoba (LSAM). But as a digital media organization, New Media Manitoba believes it can be even stronger yet by bringing interactive solutions to make products more competitive, more responsive, and easier to use.
Visual Lizard is one of the oldest development companies in Winnipeg, having programmed, maintained, and expanded websites since the days of receiving circled copy edits by fax.
