Introduction

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Welcome to the New Media Production Guide!

This site is meant to be an open reference for anyone interested in the advancing possiblities and opportunities in entertainment media. Exciting new technology has opened unexplored distribution channels and business models that promise to change the way we interact with all forms of media in an even more profound way than the introduction of television less than a century ago.

The New Media Production Guide is intended to be a high-level resource providing information related to the production of all media. The advent of the web and digital production heralds a streamlining of all media into consolidated production, distribution and marketing systems. Music, video games and movies are created using the same software and hardware, distributed with the same technologies and advertised in the same markets.

The "New Media Production Guide" is meant to both improve and track the developments in the creation and distribution of all media. The name is meant in a number of ways: the guide is a new addition to the creative meme, has a concerted (but not myopic) focus on so-called "new media" and is meant to encourage the production of entertainment projects in all forms.

Hopefully the site will grow to offer a primer of best practices in the art and craft of entertainment. It will offer a base set of knowledge in order to preserve the techniques and knowledge held by the various trades involved in the production of artistic media. It will also offer a greater sharing of information within and between different disciplines. Hopefully this can help foster greater interdisciplinary communication and understanding on future projects.

You can begin your exploration by orienting yourself to the organization of this site and learning About this Guide.