Does anyone have more fun at work than Evan Jones? The owner and creative director/producer at Stitch Media, an interactive media production company with offices in Halifax and Toronto, has the amazing job of coming up with ideas for cross promotions with traditional media creators. Says Jones: “I work with traditional media creators to make their projects interactive.”
Macleans Magazine, October 13 2008 issue
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A recent project in association with White Pine Pictures, known as The Border Interactive, won a Rockie Award from the Banff World Television Festival for Best Interactive Mobile Program Enhancement, while being nominated for a 2008 Gemini Award for Best Cross Platform Project.
No stranger to awards, Jones, a former creative director for Xenophile Media, led the ReGenesis Extended Reality Game, a groundbreaking integration of interactive television that won an International Emmy Award, a Gemini and a Banff World Television Award. And back in 2003, when he graduated from the interactive multimedia program at Sheridan College, he won the Graduate of the Year Award from the Canadian New Media Awards. Not a bad track record.
The Sheridan experience was “unbelievable challenging,” says Jones. “We were given all the tools and full access to the lab day and night. In many ways, the program was more challenging than some of the university-level courses that I had taken.”
Working with other talented and motivated students acted as a stimulus to Jones. “We were all in this crucible where being exposed to one another’s work helped us to thrive. The course demanded 100% of my time and energy, but it was well worth it.”
Jones went on to do a six-month program at the Canadian Film Centre, from which he jumped into the world of work and then self-employment. He credits the Sheridan program with giving him practical knowledge. “The combination of theory and practice gave me a lot of confidence. That is especially important for me today because my job demands that I think of ways to do things differently in the tech space… That’s what makes m job so much fun – I constantly get to invent.” He says, laughing at the sheer excitement of it all.
His work having been named one of the Top 10 New Media Groundbreakers in 2007 by the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, it seems Jones will continue to make his mark in the new media space.
