FACULTY OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND BUSINESS

1. RESEARCH PROFILE (2006-PRESENT)

Name: Daniel Wagner_________________________________________________

Position: Lecturer and Course Coordinator: Film & Television Projects____________

Department: Performing and Screen Arts___________________________________

Current Academic Qualifications (and date qualifications were achieved)

Bachelor of Arts: Responsible Telecommunications (1973)

Graduate Certificate: Higher Education (2007)

Qualifications that you are currently enrolled in, if applicable. (Include e.g.:
enrolment date, research topic, academic Institution enrolled at, details of supervisors and expected
date of completion).

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Post Graduate Supervision. (e.g. Number of post graduate students, M and PhD level, e.g.
numbers completed, currently enrolled, and due for completion in 2010).

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2. CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY

My current research activity is focused on integrating newer technologies with more

traditional modalities of cinematic storytelling and promotion. I am also looking into the
effects of new and emerging technologies on a culture and on the individual in terms of
programme delivery and consumption.

I have been Director of Photography on 3 projects which utilise a ground-breaking delivery

vehicle (faux holographic projection of life-sized human images into storefronts to create the
impression that the person is actually inside), and also on a short film shot with the RED
ONE, a new-generation of super-high-resolution camera (much higher than High Definition).
The film is still in post-production, for an early 2010 release.

I’ve had an article published in OnFilm, the New Zealand trade magazine for the motion
picture industry. This article was about the necessity to teach traditional film theory and
technique in order to properly prepare students for shooting in High Definition.

I have been invited to contribute additional articles on related topics, and have a few in the
works.

I coordinated and established the technical infrastructure on the Film & Television end of the
Rod Oram Forums for the Future, and will do the same next year, when we hope to establish
a live webstream of the events, including online interactivity (on an international level) with
the Forums as they are occurring.
Research Track Record 2006-2009
Quality Assured Outputs
Quality Assured Outputs
(70%)
Formal & independent scrutiny; publicly
disseminated
Exhibitions in Quality Assured Galleries
Journal articles (refereed)
Fully refereed conference papers
Book(s), Book chapters (normally peer-reviewed)
Note: Non quality-assured items may also be
included
Published Article (2009)
Back to the Future in OnFilm, September
2009
Technical Coordination: Forums for the
Future (2009)
Created and managed infrastructure for
collaborative interactive project involving
industry leaders and online audience.
Broadcast of TVC on local television
(2008, 2009)
Director of Advert for Unitec’s Department
of Performing & Screen Arts
Exhibition of Work in Telecom
storefront (2006)
Peer Esteem
Peer Esteem
(15%)
Fellowships, prizes, awards; (research-related)
Fellows and/or restricted or elected membership
of learned societies or academies
Participation in editorial boards and/or refereeing
(eg for journals)
Invitations to present conference address or
similar
Favourable reviews and/or commendations
Appointments to key discipline-based, research,
professional, community or government bodies
Esteem factors associated with students
Research-related favourable citations
Other evidence of peer esteem (eg
acknowledgement by peers)
Contribution to Research
Environment
to
Research and disciplinary leadership
Contribution through students and emerging
researchers
Contribution to institutional vitality
Membership of research collaborations and
consortia
Contributions to the research discipline
Contributions to research environment within and
without the TEO (eg membership/leadership of
institutional research committees and leadership
in national / international research associations)
Supervision of student research
Mentoring of postgraduate students (especially
Maori & Pasifika)
Assisting student publishing, exhibiting or
performance
Facilitating discipline-based and research
networks
Other evidence of contribution to the research
environment
Departmental co-coordination of
eLearning initiative (2009)
Director of Photography on promotional
video displayed with Vizoo (faux
holographic) projection system.
Exhibition of Work in Vodafone
storefront (2006)
Director of Photography on promotional
video displayed with Vizoo (faux
holographic) projection system.
Exhibition of Work in Adidas storefront
(2006)
Director of Photography on promotional
video displayed with Vizoo (faux
holographic) projection system.
Individual Staff Research Planner 2010-2011

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research and Outputs (70%) Environment (15%)
proposed research Fellowships, prizes, Provide Indicate here what
outputs for 2010. Note: All outputs are, awards; (research- Including – but not limited to: detailed type of funding is
for example, to be related) estimate of requested from the
Indicate the expected placed in the context of Research and disciplinary all costs following categories:
date for each research the following, where Fellows and/or leadership associated
output which will be applicable. restricted or elected with each Individual Project
completed. membership of learned Contribution through students and research
* Article for journal societies or academies emerging researchers project Group Project
Note: All information publication Participation in
to include * Vertical qualification editorial boards and/or Contribution to institutional vitality Post Graduate Support
identification of the attainment refereeing (eg for (conference
appropriate targeted * Presentation for journals) Membership of research attendance)
journal, conference refereed conference collaborations and consortia
etc. * Exhibition Invitations to present Capacity Building
* Etc. conference address or Contributions to the research
The "where" and similar discipline
"when" and status is Outputs may be
also advisable subject to one or more Favourable reviews Contributions to research
information to be of the following: and/or commendations environment within and without
provided where the TEO (eg
possible. Formal & independent Appointments to key membership/leadership of
scrutiny; publicly discipline-based, institutional research committees
disseminated research, professional, and leadership in national /
Exhibitions in Quality community or international research
Assured Galleries government bodies associations)
Journal articles
(refereed) Esteem factors Supervision of student research
Fully refereed associated with
conference papers students Mentoring of postgraduate
Book(s), Book chapters Research-related students (especially Maori &
(normally peer- favourable citations Pasifika)
reviewed) Other evidence of peer
esteem (eg Assisting student publishing,
Note: Non quality- acknowledgement by exhibiting or performance
assured items may also peers)
be included Facilitating discipline-based and
research networks

Other evidence of contribution to

the research environment

Technical Coordination: Attendance at an international

Forums for the Future conference on eLearning (TBD)
(2010)
Create and manage
infrastructure for
collaborative
interactive project
involving industry
leaders and online
audience. A multi-
camera, live-switched
panel discussion,
webcast live to an
international audience
who interacts with the
panellists through
webcam, txt, twitter
and mobile streaming.
The New Storytellers. Attendance at an international
OnFilm article conference on Mobile Web
documenting a case Entertainment (TBD)
study whereby
students use mobile
streaming and online
editing to craft
narrative, documentary
and experimental
works which are
published online.
Assessing Professional
Practice. OnFilm article
exploring the
definitions of
“professionalism” in a
Film/TV context and
examining a variety of
methods for assessing
its achievement.
Video Dance – A
Performance Mashup.
OnFilm article detailing
PSA’s Video Dance
project, which uses the
camera as a
choreographic element
(rather than merely to
document a dance
performance). What
happens when dancers
and film&video
craftspeople
collaborate to create a
work which synthesizes
the two disciplines?
“Be Careful” – Director
of Photography on this
NZ Short Film, shot on
RED ONE, new-
generation of super-
high-resolution camera
(much higher than High
Definition).