Part two of of the May 2012 StoryCode Immersion - Mark Harris discusses how to work with a technologist.

1. How to Work with a Technologist

2. Department Heads From The Start:
1) Art Director
2) DP
3) Costumes
4) Composer
5) Sound Designer
6) Editor
7) Software Architect?

3. Culture of Collaboration

4. Culture of Collaboration

5. Stuff Everyone Can Do:
Twitter
Facebook
Foursquare
Blog Software
Fake site
App “builders”
Social Samba

9. Technology vs. Products

10. Stuff Everyone Can't Do
Projects Conceived With Technology

11. Collapsus
http://www.collapsus.com/

12. Highrise
http://www.doclab.org/2010/highriseout-my-window/

14. Him, Her and Them
http://www.himherandthemfilm.com/

15. Pandemic 1.0
Sundance 2011
●Many Data Sources
●Algorithms
●Live User Interaction

16. Future Mate: 1st StoryHack Winner
●Queuing
●Data Integrity
●Eventual Consistency

17. Technology Feeds Art

18. Story Technology Story Technology

24. New Tools

25. Technology as as asset

26. Technology as as asset

27. Practicalities

28. Tech Department
Quite likely more than one person:
●IA
●Graphic Design
●Systems Architecture
●Mobile App
●Web Front End
Tech Department under Tech Lead.

29. Tech Lead understands:
● Speed and timeframe
● Open source? Licensing
● Relying on current companies
● Data Ownership
● Technology Ownership
● Changing Terms & Conditions
● Scalability issues

30. Understands how to:
●Break down problems
●Find answers
●Find right people
●Delegate

31. "…But how do you tell the robot what to do?"
"I don't tell the robot what to do. I switch it on and it does
what's in its nature"

32. Mark Harris
Director, Platform Engineering
Broadcastr
http://www.broadcastr.com
mark@broadcastr.com