Multimedia Showreel - Joe T Velikovsky (January 02020)

Online Multimedia Showreelof 
Dr Joe T (aka: J.T.) Velikovsky Ph.D. (aka: JTV)
(Updated: January 02020)


Ph.D. in Communication & Media Arts
JTV graduates the PhD (02017)




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So my Short C.V. (2 pages) is here, & my Long C.V. is here. (If, you like that sort of thing...) 
& Here's a summary of me, of sorts:

J. T. Velikovsky, PhD (Communication and Media Arts) is a member of the Future Work Research Group (FASTLab Research Center) and Communication and Media Research (CAMR) Group at University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also a million-selling, multi-award-winning transmedia writer (videogames, movies, television, books, songs, comics), filmmaker, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been a judge for the Australian Writers Guild and Australian Directors Guild, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies. 

JTV's Academic Research interests include: Applied Evolutionary Epistemology; biological & cultural evolution; creativity, and consilience.

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& Below are some of my past projects, sorted into the media-categories of:
FILMS / MOVIES / FILMOVIES (i.e. Feature-length)SHORT FILMS (Shorts)VIDEOGAMESCOMPUTER PROGRAMS/SOFTWARETVNOVELSNON-FICTION BOOKSPLAYSSHORT STORIESARTICLES (in: JOURNALS, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, etc)POEMSJOKESSONGSCARTOONS & COMIXPAINTINGSPHOTOGRAPHSINSTALLATION ARTWORKSPh.D.sPROMO VIDEOS
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Drumroll...

RUNAWAY CHAINSAW - The 90-minute Comedy Feature-Film (2016)
A (magic) chainsaw gets away from a bloke,and goes on a tour across the countryside.
Visit: http://runaway-chainsaw.blogspot.com.au/

(I was: Writer-Producer-Director-Cameraman-Actor-Editor-Sound- & Continuity-Guy.)
(I wanted to see if one guy could make a Top 20 RoI movie [a movie that makes over 71 times its production budget] in a week. ...Turns out, you can!)
The Short Film version of it (14 mins, as opposed to 90 mins) also won some awards. 
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Also:
The Jungle  (2013)
Big cat conservationist LARRY BLACK and his filmmaker brother BEN travel into the Indonesian jungle to find and document the rare and endangered Javan Leopard. As they travel deeper and deeper into the jungle they realise they are being stalked by a deadly predator.


The Jungle - Trailer

(I had various roles on this film, long story. See the End Credits in the film itself.)
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Caught Inside - Movie Poster
Winner, Audience Award, Sydney Film Festival 2010 Winner, Independent Spirit Award, IF (Independent Film) Awards 2010 SXSW (South By Southwest Film Festival) 2011 - official selection.

Caught Inside (2010) - Trailer
The world's first surf-thriller-horror film (!)
When a tight-knit group of surfers venture to a secluded island paradise on the 'surfari' of their lives, they make the mistake of bringing the one thing that can tear them all apart: a beautiful young woman...! As tensions boil over and friendships fall to the side, a `monster' emerges from within - the most revered and feared amongst them. A monster, who soon turns their "dream vacation" - into a nightmare fight for survival...
"CAUGHT INSIDE: Anyone is a weapon if you twist them right..."

(I was a co-writer on the film.)


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& some of my spec movie screenplays...
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SHORT FILMS: Rocket Man - movie poster

Rocket Man (1997) (Rated R) (10 mins) (Docu-Drama/Science Fiction)
The incredibly true story of Darwin Edward Cole - "the serial killer who saved the world."
(I was a co-writer on the film.)
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Retro Sheilas  - in -  SPACE ALIENS ARE TOOLING OUR SHEIIAS~!!! 
(1995) (Comedy - Rated R) (7 mins)

Three truckin' Aussie super sheilas embark on a mission to save the earth against alien invasion, with unexpected consequences. For Adults Only! 

(I was writer on the film. Also acted in it.)
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Hero (4 min excerpt)  (Psychological Horror / Drama) (13 mins)
A lonely man finds a woman's lost mobile phone and sets about rescuing her from violent thugs.
(I was a co-writer on the film. Also did: Continuity, on set.)
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Short film:


RUNAWAY CHAINSAW ™ in Bathurst - Trailer

A (magic) chainsaw gets away from a bloke, and roars off on a `historical sight-seeing tour' of Bathurst, NSW, Australia.

RUNAWAY CHAINSAW ™  in Bathurst  (Short Film - 14 mins)
See here for more details. 
(I was: Writer-Producer-Director-Cameraman-Actor-Production Designer-Editor-Sound-StuntMan, Chainsaw-Puppeteer & Continuity-Guy on the film.)
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Stageplay poster

Darwin Down Under (in 1836!) (Historical Comedy)
The story of Charles Darwin's historic visit to Bathurst, NSW, Australia, in 1836.
For more see: the stage play (blog post).This film also won an award.
(I was the Writer, Director, Narrator, Animator, Sound-guy, etc.)

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Robo-Tato - in... THE ROBOTS are COMING!!! (30 secs)
(I did everything, including strip the Mr Potatohead, but that's not really saying much.)

I also make Art Films, but not always on purpose:
What is it LIKE, to be: a bat? (10 mins)

Attack of the Bin Chickens  (ANZCA Conference, 2017)

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VIDEOGAMES

3-D Augmented-Reality Sky Invaders (A-Rage 2005)
An award-winning Augmented-Reality game: "3-D Sky Invaders" produced by A-Rage Pty Ltd.
(A-Rage - Augmented Reality: Active Game Engine)

A-Rage game system

(I was the Producer-Director-Writer-Game Designer)
(We also published a conference paper in 2005, on this augmented-reality games technology.)
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Looney Tunes: ACME ARSENAL (Warner Bros 2007) (Console game - sold a million copies, on: PS2, Wii, & XBox360)

Gamers can arm themselves for fun in the all-new LOONEY TUNES: ACME ARSENAL videogame. Tag-team with the Tunes as they fight for their lives in a combat-packed, pick-up-and-play videogame. The ever-popular Looney Tunes characters keep their irreverent humour and get a cool, modern look created by Warner Bros. Animation for their romp through time in an action-oriented, arcade style game. Players will find themselves immersed in fast-paced combat with incredible weapons, puzzle-solving challenges and vehicle-based action in rich environments inspired by the beloved, outlandish cartoons.

(I was the Senior Game Designer & also, Writer.)
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Liferaft Mobile-phone interactive-soap-opera game8 x 1-minute episodes
Watch the 1-min Eps, and decide , over 8 Episodes of the series, if you will Save - or simply `Savour the schadenfreude' - of Shane & Freida, a honeymooning couple stuck on a sinking liferaft...
(I was the Writer & Designer)
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COMPUTER PROGRAMS / SOFTWARES

The Robo-Raconteur (artificial-writer computer-program) - Demo video
For more, see: The Robo-Raconteur (Velikovsky 2017)   
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StoryAlity: The Creative Practice Theory (CPT) Agent-Based Model
For more, see:  The `Creative Practice Theory’ Agent-Based Model


The Systematizer (How systems work)

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TV


(Science fiction TV series)


(...I've also done a bunch of other TV stuff, I'll put it in here, soon...)

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NOVELS
I wrote a novel called A Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols (AM SO AS), in 2011.

AM SO AS (2011)
OSCAR, a disaffected teenager is mentored in the Art of Game Design - by God Himself...But - can he solve the mystery of the Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols in time-?
A Satirical Magic-Realist Bangsian Fantasy Coming-of-Age Novel about Videogames, and Everything Else, as Well...(and yes - we're living in a simulated multiverse)by Oscar Velikovsky (no relation)© 252nd November 2088.


Novel & Game Trailer - (40 secs)for the novel `A Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols' (aka "The Voice of the Videogame Generation") and - the free videogame "BOOKS KILL PEOPLE".
See the book's website, here.
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Also, as of the year 02020, I've got another novel partway written; I'm serializing it in chapters on a blog:


J.B.: ABOVE-TOP-SECRET AGENT PERSON GUYinAdventure #1: “The Case of the Thing with the Thing, and Whatsaname” By: JT Velikovsky© August 12th 02017, and whatever

(And, I have a few other drafts of novels... but, I gotta beat 'em into shape yet.)
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NON-FICTION BOOKS


The Feature Film Screenwriter's Workbook (Velikovsky 1995/2011)
For more info, see here.

And, here.

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The STORYALITY™ Screenwriting Manual  (2013)See: StoryAlity #67 – The STORYALITY™ Screenwriting Manual (2013): out now on Kindle -------/-----------


I co-edited this book of conference proceedings:

See: StoryAlity #96 – Transmedia Practice: A Collective Approach (2014)
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STAGEPLAYS


The Abercrombie Zombie

A historical comedy play about Ralf Entwhistle and the Ribbon Gang in Bathurst, Australia - in 1830 !
Written by JT Velikovsky

See the website, here.

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Darwin Down Under 



(See above; we already talked about this :)

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SHORT STORIES
Spartacus The Incubus (1994) - Horror-comedy short story, in the anthology Shadows of Life
Roadkill (OPUS Magazine, 1993) - Horror-comedy short story
The Ancient Cities of Tomorrow (365 Tomorrows, 2019) - Science fiction (flash fiction)


...etc...

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ARTICLES  (in: JOURNALS, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, etc)

StoryAlity #144 – My article: `The structure of the meme, the unit of culture' (in: The Encyclopedia of Information Science & Technology, Velikovsky 2017)
StoryAlity #151 – My article on Stanley Kubrick, Charles Darwin and Joe Campbell’s monomyth, in The Journal of Genius and Eminence (March 2018)
StoryAlity #136 – 5 articles in Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania (2016)
StoryAlity #132 – The holon/parton structure of the Meme, the unit of culture – and the narreme, or unit of story – book chapter (Velikovsky 2016)
StoryAlity #125 – My article on Nia Vardalos, in  Women Screenwriters: An International Guide (2015)
StoryAlity #152 – The Holon/Parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture. In the book Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, and Human-Computer Interaction (2019)

& I have a few chapters in Miller's Compendium of Timeless Tools for the Modern Writer (2015)



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POEMS
Now and then I also write poems... See some of them at my Outrageous Bullshit  satirical-comedy blog. (e.g. I wrote a sonnet, about the 2019/2020 Aussie bushfires, etc...)
And see my collection of: Horrifying Haikus .
And I once wrote one, using only the top 100 most commonly used English words....It used to be here, but seems to be gone from there, now. I must find it again sometime.

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JOKES
I've been a joke-writer for TV shows, and comedians, etc. Here's a bit of standup. It has a few jokes in it. (What's not to like about: jokes?)
JTV Standup Comedy - Bit #42
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SONGS



I'm in a band called Texas Radio & the Big Beat. In the band I play bass, & sing a bit.We've released 2 albums: the white album & black album.
Here's the 2 `album samplers':
Everything's Okay (Texas Radio & the Big Beat) - the white album sampler

(Texas Radio & the Big Beat) - the black album sampler
(I wrote the songs: Monkey Boy, Juicy Flirt, NASA Be Informed, Mr Velikovsky, & Wonder Why)
For more info on all that, go here.
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I also write, perform & record music `solo' sometimes... Just for shiggles, I wrote & recorded an album called Zen Stupidity:

Zen Stupidity:  An Concept Albumen by JTV
(I wrote, played & recorded all that stuff.)
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CARTOONS / COMIX
Here's some of my random comix.
e.g.  Naked Philosophy Guy,  Dr N. Sayne - Mad Professor, Dog Weiner-Dog,  etc




(Dr N Sayne is: written by me (aka `Tesla'), & drawn by Deane Taylor)

Dr N. Sayne builds his lab at the rubbish dump


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PAINTINGS

I did a triptych:

& this is a blue cattledog, and a vampyre.




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PHOTOGRAPHS
I did Photography (among other subjects, like Screenwriting) for my undergrad Comms degree in 1991-3... I've been the Stills Photographer on a few feature films. Also, I just like taking photos...?

Here's one:

And a poem to go with it.

Also I often take a lot when I go to conferences... 
(I took the 3 at the bottom)

& Here's some from a The Prodigy concert: (great lightshow!)




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INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION ARTWORKS

Now and then I write scripts, and do story & interactive consulting for interactive installation artworks... e.g. `The Very Near Future', by Alex Davies:


See: The Very Near Future - art installation.

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Ph.D.s
Okay, so I only have one so far - 

My Ph.D.:

The StoryAlity Ph.D. Dissertation (Velikovsky 02016)
You can download the Ph.D. Dissertation as a PDF (for free), here.
(Or, more quickly - without as many clicks-thru - here.)

It's a comparative study of the Top and Bottom 20 Return-on-Investment (RoI) movies. And then - compares those 40 films, to some of the popular screenwriting manuals, to see how correct they are...!

(Short story: The (popular) Screenwriting Manuals are only about 50% right...) 

See also my PhD blog (StoryAlity) for: vastly more info.

& Here's a super-duper short version of it: (10 mins, as opposed to 450 pages, or whatever)

The StoryAlity PhD in 10 minutes, or it's FREE~!!!
(P.S. It's free, anyway.)
I also do 

STORYALITY - High-RoI (Return-on-Investment) Film/Story/Screenplay Consulting 
See: Services & Rates
(My Consulting Rates seem expensive, but - they're not as expensive as Hollywood's-! :)
& For some of "the information" (about: creating high-RoI feature films) - see, also this post: 
StoryAlity BlogPost #150 - Key Findings – from The StoryAlity PhD on High-RoI Movies (Velikovsky 2016)

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PROMO VIDEOS


In 2017, I shot & edited these short Promo Videos, for the Bathurst Arts Trail:


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& here's another one (playlist of 13 videos), on some:
Central West NSW Authors & Artists - & stuff... (2017)

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& here's some stuff on an art exhibition by Dr Jim Frazier OAM(David Attenborough's cameraguy):
`Out Of This World' - an Exhibition of Crystal Art and Butterflies by Dr Jim Frazier OAM ACS (02019)
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& That's about it, for now...?


I usually post any exciting NEWS, here on my PhD-blog NEWS page......but, that all depends on your definition of "exciting", I guess.Maybe, that stuff's all relative.

Thanks for reading/viewing~!

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You have been reading/viewing a blog-post by:

Dr J T Velikovsky
AI Researcher & Enthusiast...  & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Random Guy
(and, also The  StoryAlity  Guy) aka Humanimal 

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Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames): Music: Texas Radio & Zen StupidityYoutube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
Researchgate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre...
etc etc.

For more, see On Writering and StoryAlity News