Speaker: Don Levy, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Time: Wednesday, September 8, 6-8 pm
Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 116
Crewed-Source Production: Collaborative crowd-sourcing with a professional edge
Please join us for a presentation by visiting scholar Don Levy. He is working out the pieces of a new approach to crowdsourcing, that he refers to as “crewed sourcing.” He asks the question: Can we crowd-source everything? What parts can be effectively crowdsourced? Where are the challenges? How do we break down the project? What is the interface? What tools can and should be used? Will professionals between projects join the party, like a pick-up game of basketball? What is the business model? Join in the discussion.
Don Levy Bio:
Don Levy is a senior vice president at Sony Pictures Digital Productions. For the past 15 years, he has lived at the intersection of technology and entertainment, starting at Sony Pictures to help grow Sony Pictures Imageworks into an industry leading visual effects and animation studio. Continuing at Sony Pictures, the studio’s post production, sound recording, scoring, HD, DVD authoring, and digital asset management efforts were added to his brief. With the formation of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, in 2000, he was promoted to senior vice president of marketing and communications and took on responsibility for online games, media software,user generated content, digital distribution, mobile entertainment and digital policy in addition to maintaining his relationship with Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation. Earlier in his career he was a freelance publicist, working with many top producers and directors.
seems like next class should be pretty awesome!