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Student competition
Posted by Pete | 01.05.08
Green Lit Media are looking to create a ninety second humorous viral and in line with Bristol Media’s objective to engage with new talent we are extending the creative concept element in the form of a competition to you students. If this is your thing then why not send us a short paragraph outline. if this is better than anything we come up with then we’ll invite you (and pay you) to come and work with us on producing the viral. You’ll work with our production team and hopefully gain some ‘hands on’ experience as well as see your concept brought to life and shown to the world. send outline to: info@greenlitmedia.com
Giant snowmen on college green
Posted by Clarered | 30.04.08
Giant snowmen in college green, aliens crashed in the city centre. Over the last few weeks I have had a few sneak peaks at the Quicktime VR visuals that Jon Williams of Licorice has just created for his new game Harmonize, and they certainly show Bristol in a very different light.
Harmonise is an experimental GPS-based team game which has been created as part of Media Sandbox. Teams work together in a race against the clock, harmonising virtual and physical world gameplay to overcome the challenges of the environment.
You can sign up a team to play for free at Watershed, Bristol UK between 17th and 19th of May 2008. Visit www.harmonise-game.co.uk to sign up.
TV Highlights w/c 21st April 2008
Posted by Attentional | 28.04.08
Friday 25th April 2008
Benidorm, at 9pm on ITV1, was once again pitted against BBC1’s long-running satirical quiz from Hat Trick, Have I Got News for You, which last week won the slot. This week, however, the positions were reversed, and Tiger Aspect’s comedy Benidorm won the slot with 5.55m (23.9%), and an impressive TI™ of 180.4. The series is going from strength to strength.
Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Rock Rivals came to the end of its run last night. The show, produced by Shed, which on paper may have sounded like a sure-fire hit, featuring a blend of flashy drama and X-Factor-style setting, somehow failed to click with the ITV drama audience. The eight-part series bowed out to an audience of 2.4m (9.9%), giving a TI™ of 49.9 and a series average, based on overnights figures, of 2.5m (10.8%).
Tuesday 22nd April 2008
The eyes of the nation’s football fans were firmly on ITV1 last night for the live coverage of Liverpool’s clash with Chelsea in the Champions League, starting at 7.30pm. An exciting match with a knife-edge finish, that saw an own goal from Liverpool give a 1-1 result in the dying moments of the game, kept an excellent average audience of 8.1m (33.3%) glued to their sets, giving a TI™ of 144.9.
For a more detailed summary of the week’s television, please visit http://www.attentional.com/blog.php
Do the Trinty Mirror closures spell doom for our own Newspapers?
Posted by Montage comms | 25.04.08
News that the Trinity Mirror is to close eight loss-making newspapers in Derby and Peterborough, could mean that the writing is on the wall for some of our own weeklies in the West Country.
The group has decided to shut down the titles, which are all free weeklies and include the Derby Trader and the Peterborough Herald and Post.
It is understood that 23 employees will be made redundant after Trinity’s failed attempt last year to find a buyer for its Midlands division.
This has ominous signs for our own local media giant Northcliffe, who also tried to sell it’s own regional network of newspapers recently too (that includes the Bristol Evening Post and the Western Daily Press.)
Indeed Northcliffe’s intentions for the future of its newspapers can be graphically illustrated with the Bath Chronicle, that has now been made a weekly in order to “focus efforts of their online offering.”
Northcliffe are developing online offerings that are getting industry recognition such as the Hull Daily Mail’s website, which is based on reader forums and excepts user generated content and recently won a Newspaper award for the best use of new media. I think that this approach will be vital in media “black holes” that are left by closures of smaller newspapers too.
Locally, the Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily press have merged the Business Desks so one could speculate that the newspapers teams are to be merged under umbrella sites that cover larger areas to save cash. For example the Western Daily Press’ patch.
Locally our newspapers have yet to develop their online offering to the Hull newspapers level of web 2.0 offering, but apparently this model is due to be rolled out across the Nothcliffe network.
It is noticeable that the Plymouth Evening Herald and Western Morning news have developed a strong social networking presence on the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
So what’s next for the Bristol Evening Post’s website?
Bath citizens used in bluetooth surveillance experiment (unwittingly)
Posted by Tom | 23.04.08
If you live in Bath and have your Bluetooth on you might want to turn it off.
Apparently over the past 6 months an experiment has been taken place using the citizens of Bath as unwitting surveillance guinea pigs.
”...Kostakos’s have an even more frightening idea. Why not test the idea by anonymously monitoring the movements of students, residents and workers of the city of Bath by listening out for their bluetooth-enabled devices as they move around the city. And that’s what they’ve done.”
TV Highlights w/c 14th April 2008
Posted by Attentional | 21.04.08
Thursday 17th April 2008
The BBC is certainly making Graham Norton work for his money – the host of current BBC1 Saturday night talent contest I’d Do Anything was back on BBC2 last night for a new 12-part run of his own chat show. The Graham Norton Show averaged 1.6m (7.8%) in the Thursday 10pm slot last year, but this new series has been thrust into the very heart of peaktime with a 9pm start time. Norton had Hollywood heavyweights Kevin Bacon and Tony Curtis as guests to start the new series, bringing in 1.7m (7.6%) to give a TI™ score of only 75.1. The Graham Norton Show lost out to BBC1’s slot winner New Tricks, which attracted 4.7m (20.9%) between 21:00 and 22:00, despite being a repeat.
Wednesday 16th April 2008
Wednesday night television is now owned by Sir Alan Sugar. This is the conclusion you might reach looking at the current figures for The Apprentice, going out on BBC1 at 9pm on Wednesday evenings. Since the format crossed the pond, and was produced by Talkback Thames with Sir Alan in the driving seat, it has gone from strength to strength. Its first run on BBC2 in 2005 averaged 2.4m viewers. This climbed to 4.3m viewers for Series 2, but the programme really started to grow into its potential when it switched to BBC1 for Series 3 in 2007. On average, 5.6m tuned in to see the potential candidates melt down as they tried to carry out seemingly straightforward tasks. Seven million watched the final. That figure has already been achieved with the latest series: last night’s episode, the fourth, achieved a 7m audience and a 30.3% share, giving an excellent TI™ of 153.4.
Monday 14th April 2008
BBC1’s stalwart crime drama Waking the Dead returned for a seventh series last night, with the first of 12 new episodes dominating viewing in the 09:00 – 10:00pm slot with an audience of 6.8m (27.4%). This gave an above-average TI™ score of 123. The appearance of Waking the Dead was bad news for the final episode of Kudos’ thriller series The Fixer over on ITV1, which dropped to 3.3m (13.4%) in the same slot (the lowest audience of its six-part run). This brought the series average to 4.5m.
For a more detailed summary of the week’s television, please visit http://www.attentional.com/blog.php
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