Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
The extended labathon, which started with the Hi8us/UK Sound TV workshop in January, finally ended yesterday where it had started in at the Spread Eagle in Midhurst. The 10 companies selected for the BBC’s Southern England Innovation Lab pitching to BBC commissioners yesterday.
Taken collectively they were the most engaging, creatively ...
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
One of the major challenges for mentors on this week’s BBC Innovation Lab has been to get some of the participants to ‘kill their darlings’.
The ten teams for the Lab were selected on the basis of proposals submitted in response to a set of briefs from the BBC. Two people ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
The next InSync event will be on Thursday March 15th.
The technological changes happening within television (from YouTube to 18DoughtyStreet, Current TV to Joost) together with the increasing democratization of the medium are obvious. Likewise, the inherent conflicts are equally clear; balancing being commercially viable, technologically up-to-date, creative, and maintaining audience ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
This year’s sequence of BBC Innovation Labs started at Forest Hills Hotel, north of Glasgow, last week - 4 days after the end of Crossover in Adelaide. From temperatures of over 40 in the Australian summer to three inches of snow in the Trossachs.
The Scottish Lab included teams who were ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
"Nearly two weeks have passed since CrossOver Australia and I remain inspired and grateful. This has been, without doubt, the most useful media course I have attended in a 20-year career in broadcast television."
"The experience of rapidly developing ideas and projects in cross-media teams was so much more ...
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