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Professional Digital Content Training at BOVTS
Posted by Caroline | 01.05.08
Are you a runner, researcher, AP or digital content pro who wants to brush up on their skills? Need to refresh yourself with Self-shooting DV/DSR 570/Final Cut Pro Editing and/or Location sound recording? Then read on!
Industry professionals at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School will be running specialist digital content production courses throughout the summer and early autumn. There are a variety of courses on offer including:
Self –shooting DV for Directors/APs which includes a basic overview of shooting sequences on theZ1 camera and delivering content to basic broadcast standards;
Self-shooting DSR 570 for Directors/APs – same format as the Z1 course but focussing on the Sony DSR570 large form camera;
Final Cut Pro Editing for Directors/APs aimed at self-shooting Assistant Producers and Producers/Directors;
Location sound recording for PDs/APs which will focus on the development of professional location sound recording practices and familiarisation with high-end industry sound equipment.
All the courses will take place at the Television Department of Christchurch Studios, Clifton, Bristol – a former BBC facility with 2 edit suites, sound booths, studio space and pro tools suite. The perfect environment for professional training!
Each of the courses runs for two days and cost between £300 and £400. For further information please call the Production office on 0117 907 4306 or email vince@christchurchstudios.com
Five Minutes of Mystery
Posted by Caroline | 30.04.08
Calling all mysterious moving-image makers, enigmatic engineers of the silver screen! Five Minutes of Mystery challenges you to create and submit short films around a theme of mystery. Part of ‘The Compass of Mystery Festival’, Five Minutes of Mystery will bring together film-makers from far and wide to exhibit their work here in Bristol.
Judged by a panel of industry experts, awards will be for Best Film, Audience Award, Local Film-maker and Youth Award.
Entries must be no longer then five minutes in length. Submissions will be accepted in the following formats: DVD, Mini DV or as full quality DV QuickTime files. Submission to be accompanied by Five Minutes of Mystery Entry Form, and sent to: Compass Film, 9, Walton Street, Easton, Bristol, BS5 0JG no later than 15th August. For more information about the competition visit www.compass-film.co.uk or email nicky@compass-film.co.uk
Made in the South West
Posted by Caroline | 30.04.08
MPs including Andy Burnham – Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw – Minister for the South West and Jim Knight – Minister of State for Schools and Learners, as well as more than twenty MPs with constituencies in the South West joined creative people and companies from across the region yesterday at a reception at the House of Commons.
Over 150 people came together at ‘Made in the South West,’ an event celebrating the strength of the South West’s creative and media industries hosted by South West Screen.
Special guests included Mike Bailey star of Bristol-based hit Channel 4 / E4 drama Skins, Bath-based creator and writer of the BBC’s Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes Ashley Pharoah plus key figures from some of the South West’s most successful creative companies: such as Aardman, the BBC’s Natural History Unit, Plymouth-based Twofour, Beef, and Team Rubber.
Festivals including Wildscreen, the world’s largest wildlife film festival, The International Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham and Encounters – the UK’s leading short film festival were also represented, as were the five media ‘cluster’ groups in the region: Bristol Media, Plymouth Media Partnership, Gloucestershire Media Group, Wessex Media Group and Cornwall Media Focus. The region’s strength in digital media was also in evidence with award-winning innovative companies such as HMC interactive and Mobile Pie in attendance. Both are currently working on groundbreaking projects at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol.
Joining the MPs and creative industry representatives were senior figures from the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA), the UK Film Council, and other government departments and bodies including the department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS).
South West Screen presented a showreel of work produced in the South West including excerpts from Endemol’s Deal or No Deal, Channel 4 / E4 hit series Skins, Aardman Animations’ Shaun the Sheep and Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s cult comedy Hot Fuzz. In addition, Mike Bailey– one of the Bristol-based stars of Skins – and Aysha Rafaele (one of the directors) talked about the huge opportunity the series had given them, and how important it was for them to be able to start their careers in their home city.
Caroline Norbury – Chief Executive of South West Screen – spoke about the importance of creativity, talent and ideas in today’s global knowledge economy. She stressed the huge impact of the creative industries in the region – both economically and culturally – and lobbied MPs to champion the industries to ensure that the South West is acknowledged as a world centre for creativity.
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Burnham also spoke at the event, paying tribute to the South West’s creative industries and reiterating the government’s commitment to making its ‘Creative Britain’ strategy a reality in the South West.
South West Screen becomes Mediabox regional partner
Posted by Caroline | 25.04.08
South West Screen has won the tender to become the regional partner for Mediabox in 2008/09, and applications are now being welcomed from youth media projects around the South West.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has invested £2 million in Mediabox for 2008. Mediabox is run by First Light Movies, Media Trust, Skillset and the UK Film Council. It offers disadvantaged 13-19 year olds the opportunity to develop and produce creative media projects, using film, television, print, radio or online platforms. Mediabox is for young people to: express their own opinions, ideas and views, gain new skills, encourage creativity, boost personal development and get their voices heard.
Three different grants to make and distribute youth-led media projects are offered, ranging from £100 to £40,000. Young individuals can apply for My Mediabox, while organizations can apply for Mid and Big Mediabox.
Both Mid and Big Mediabox are open to youth and/or media focused organisations. Mediabox can only award grants to organisations and young people in England.
For further information email Sas Bonser, Mediabox Co-ordinator in the South West, based at South West Screen at sas.bonser@swscreen.co.uk. Sas can be contacted on a Wednesday or Thursday at South West Screen by phone on 0117 952 9977. Further information on the application process can be found at www.media-box.co.uk or www.southwestscreen.co.uk/TrainingandDevelopment/196.aspx
Wildlife Film-maker Simon King opens Folly Farm
Posted by Caroline | 24.04.08
Thursday 1st May sees wildlife film-maker and presenter Simon King officially open the new £4.5m wildlife discovery centre created by Avon Wildlife Trust at its 250-acre nature reserve at Bishop Sutton in the Chew Valley.
The centre will be used as the base for a broad range of walks, workshops and courses, including on wildlife film-making and nature photography.
One of Simon King’s duties will be to unveil the brand and website designed for Folly Farm by Bristol Media members, BDH and Beef. To find out more about Folly Farm, see www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk or (after 1 May) the new site: www.follyfarm.org.
Renault revs up interactive online advertising with Coull
Posted by Caroline | 18.04.08
Renault is trialling interactive online advertising for the first time, using the Coull Engage ad format to run across Lycos.co.uk.
“This follows a very impressive trial with the Boots ‘Here Come the Girls’ ad, testing the Coull Engage interactive video advertising format for the first time on Lycos earlier this year,” says Fiona Smith, Agency Group Head at Lycos. “Renault is already experiencing a high level of brand engagement, with 22% of consumers to-date interacting with the Renault Laguna Sport Tourer during play to book a test drive or request a brochure.”
“Interactive online video advertising provides a significant boost to the versatility of the video format – enabling levels of interaction just not possible before,” says Irfon Watkins, Coull CEO. “The Coull Engage ad format provides detailed reporting on interaction rate and channel performance, providing Renault with insight into what its potential customers are most interested in.”
Coull Engage enables brand marketers and digital marketing agencies to easily create interactive video adverts, delivering unprecedented levels of interactivity and consumer engagement. Coull’s robust reporting tools allow real-time campaign tracking, measurement and monitoring.
For more information on Coull Engage visit www.coull.com
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