I am an Emmy®
award-winning interactive content creator, producer and creative consultant. I
develop creative transmedia content and help broadcasters and producers
scope out interactive project components. I can also oversee
production of these projects, bringing the right partners together to
produce excellent results.
Production credits:
Concept Creator,
Executive Producer and Creative Consultant:
Endgame Interactive (2012
International Digital Emmy®
award winner, 2011 AToMiC award winner, 2012 Rockie
nominee, 2012 Webby nominee, 2011 Gemini
award nominee)
Concept Creator and
Development Producer (interactive components): Drunk and on Drugs: Happy Fun Time
Hour (a 2013 Canadian Screen Award winner [Best
Cross-Platform Project - Fiction] and a 2011 Digi Award winner [Best in
Digital Advertising])
Concept Creator: I have created the interactive concepts for two police
procedurals that are currently under development (one with Bell Media, one
with Shaw Media).
Concept Consultant (interactive components):
My Babysitter's a Vampire,
In Real Life (seasons 2 and 3),
D-Day to Victory,
Cross Country Fun Hunt,
The Next Step, Grojband
+
other projects that are currently in development.
Personal awards:
Deal Makers Live! competition Audience Choice Award
winner,
Banff World Media Festival 2011
Achievements:
I have collaborated and/or advised on eleven Bell Fund
applications with a 100% success record with
overall project budgets totalling over $3.9 million. These projects
have received over $2.0 million in non-repayable grants from the Bell Fund.
What others have said about me:
"Alan has a wicked imagination combined with an
extraordinary technical capacity - he is smart, funny, creative and clever, and
I will work with him whenever I get the chance to do so.”
"Alan's creative contributions have become a
valued part of a number of our projects, both at early stages and also during
the production process, always leading to great success!”
“He was instrumental in opening us up to new
ideas and ways to bridge old and new media constructs. I highly recommend him as
a thinker and facilitator”
“Always insightful and ahead of the curve”
“His knowledge of broadcasting, new media and
telecommunications industry is among the best in Canada”
“… not only possesses an extensive depth of
knowledge in digital content, but he is also masterfully skilled at moderating
his contemporaries”
“Alan is an excellent resource. Clear minded,
focused and thorough”
“The horizons are broad on Alan's insight into
both the present and the future of the television industry at home and abroad”
“He’s a cut-through-the-clutter type of thinker
with a high-level perspective on all things digital content and distribution.
His dedication to high standards of quality and excellence also make him a
pleasure to work with”
LinkedIn users can read these recommendations
(and see who wrote them!) here
I also offer a wide range of transmedia, broadcast and interactive media consulting
services. Read more at
www.twosolitudes.com.
For more information please
contact:
Alan Sawyer
Twitter: chgchn
(production-oriented tweets)
asawyer (consulting/personally
focused tweets)
Phone: (647) 477-6187
Toll free: (800) 315-0608
