Internationalising Media Production: Early Users of Remote Creative Collaboration Tools

During 1996 there was a sharp increase in the use of remote collaboration technologies within the advertising and film industries. There was even some international collaboration, driven by the need to use scarce expertise located elsewhere. This paper reports on a series of case studies carried out in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. to assess the reactions of these forefront users and to try to determine 1) which CSCW tools will be most useful for international production applications and 2) what conditions will facilitate creative collaboration internationally.