New items and general pontifications around community media and the state of the multiverse:
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posted 8 Feb 2012 04:51 by Ben Edwards
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updated 8 Feb 2012 05:05
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The story of the first newspaper journalists in the UK
to turn to Video
journalism. They brought no visual
or technical skills with them, but a passion to learn,
patience to understand, and a need to know how. In
the ensuing months their video journalism skills would
reap huge rewards. They'd also begin to break national
stories. Their trainer and veteran video-journalist, David Dunkley
Gyimah, one of the first video-journalists in the UK in 1994 tells the
story of how they cracked video-journalism in 8 days. Something you could
do too.
Films official wesite is @ http://www.mrdot.co.uk/ "David Dunkley Gyimah is an international award winning videojournalist, independent filmmaker and future of news designer.
His career spans 25 years working for the likes of for BBC e.g.
Newsnight, BBC World Service, ABC News, Channel 4 News, ITN/ London
Tonight, Channel One, and several other creative outlets and dot.coms.
He regularly contributes to the media either through reports and his acclaimed blog or presentations of media ideas; more recently to BBC World Service Executives, BBC Journalism college, and as a panelist at the Sheffield Documentary Festival.
Previous work and collaborations include: The Financial Times, UK Press Association, Nato, Chatham House and Fortune 100 companies.
APPLE
calls him A One-Man Hurricane and Channel 4's Jon Snow says he is an
original. Based in London, he is also a senior lecturer in digital
journalism at the Universty of Westminster, and an artist in residence
at London's cultural milleau, The Southbank Center. He produces the award-winning online magazine viewmagazine.tv,
is a director of the UK's governing body linking universities and
broadcast institutions, and has been a member of London's foreign policy
think tank, Chatham House since 1994."
(http://www.viewmagazine.tv/about.html)
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posted 27 Jan 2012 01:46 by Ben Edwards
posted 27 Jan 2012 01:42 by Ben Edwards
The Bristol Radical Film Festival screens some of the most socially and
politically engaged documentary films from around the world. Taking
place over the course of a week, the festival hosts screenings in a
variety of community-based venues, culminating in a weekend of
screenings, talks, workshops and debates at the entirely volunteer-run
and not-for-profit cinema, The Cube. The variety of venues reflects the
festival's aim to bring this kind of cinema out from the shadows and in
the community. Despite being used since its inception as a tool
to educate, agitate and inspire action on some of the most important
social, political and economic issues facing society, the vast majority
of audio-visual media today is dominated almost entirely by the profit
motive. Consequently, the majority of our screens are filled with a
cinema which, when not entirely reactionary, gleefully reproduces the
status quo and the social, political and economic values that go with
it. The Bristol Radical Film Festival showcases a radically
different kind of cinema. In the wake of the recession and the
unnecessary and unjust attempts to make ordinary people pay for it,
recent months and years have seen an explosion of protest, resistance
and solidarity. The fight back is on. Come and see what cinema can do to
help. For more information, visit http://www.bristolradicalfilm.org.uk/index.html, or see our Facebook pages here: https://www.facebook.com/events/141597512623564/ here: http://www.facebook.com/RadicalFilmFestival?sk=app_106878476015645 here: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/260720467326820/ and here https://www.facebook.com/events/294219810626007/ |
posted 18 Jan 2012 06:05 by Ben Edwards
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updated 25 Jan 2012 13:45
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Local Televisions Time Has Come. This article assesses
the bidding process for the new licenses as it stands and examines what
a successful local television channel might look like. |
posted 17 Dec 2011 06:38 by Ben Edwards
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updated 17 Dec 2011 06:44
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Bristol will be one of the first 20 Cities. The 20 towns and cities across the UK which are expected to be the first to have their own local TV stations were announced today by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The first ‘pioneer areas’ are expected to be: Belfast, Birmingham,
Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds,
Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford,
Plymouth, Preston, Southampton and Swansea. |
posted 9 Nov 2011 17:29 by Ben Edwards
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updated 26 Jan 2012 06:46
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My Street is many things... It's where I live, it's where you
live, it's an idea, it's your hood, your locale, your community, your
neighbours, it could even be your corridor or your lift.
Now it is 2 more things: it's a nationwide (UK) competition for you to
make a short documentary film about your "street" and it is a new
website where your film will be seen, telling your nation's stories,
street by street ... by you. Anyone can take part. From any country.
Professional, amateur, journalist, animator, young, old, activist,
artist. You can make a new film or perhaps you already have one.
Each year the shortlisted films will be showcased at the OPEN CITY
London Documentary Festival (June 21-24 2012). The submission deadline
for this year is May 1st 2012. Films submitted after this date will be
eligible for the festival in 2013.
Films must be between 90secs and 9mins. Films made any time in history
can be uploaded onto the website, but only those made after 30th May
2011 are eligible for MyStreet competition in Open City 2012.
They will be judged by an acclaimed international jury.
For more information and terms click here or to watch the films that have been submitted already click VIEW in the menu. |
posted 9 Sep 2011 04:02 by Ben Edwards
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updated 9 Sep 2011 04:05
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Rough Guide to Location Sound Recording
This introduction to location sound recording assumes no prior
knowledge of film or video sound. It covers both solo shooters and those
who have a sound recordist. Although it is aimed at beginners, those
with more experience may also benefit from it. As well as those involved
in the sound department it should also help others understand and best
work with sound recordists, which is to everybody's benefit. |
posted 19 Jul 2011 01:47 by Ben Edwards
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updated 5 Sep 2011 02:30
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"A new framework which will allow local television services to be created across the UK was published yesterday by Secretary of State
for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt.
The Government is committed to acting to address the technical and commercial barriers to developing new and thriving local TV provision
broadcast on Freeview – the digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform. To make it feasible, Mr Hunt is announcing that a package of
geographic interleaved spectrum will be allocated and managed by a new licensed multiplex company. This company will be obliged to build and
operate the necessary multiplexes to carry separately licensed local TV services. The number of services that will emerge is subject to
spectrum coverage and commercial sustainability. Ofcom will lead the licence award process for each."
For full article see http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/comtv-l/2011-July/000488.html.
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posted 29 Jun 2011 02:41 by Ben Edwards
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updated 30 Jun 2011 07:04
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posted 21 Jun 2011 13:10 by Ben Edwards
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updated 22 Jun 2011 03:46
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On 14th April 2011 Helen Caldicott gave a talk in Bristol. It was at the
height of the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima Japan. The talk covered
nuclear
power, radiation biology and here own life as well as the events in
Japan. We were there to film it. You can watch the first part here and other to follow.
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