Archive for the ‘Creative Labs’ Category
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
One of last year's BBC Innovation Labs projects has just gone live.
Geo-Stories, developed at the London Innovation Lab in March 2006, is a collaboration between the BBC, Nokia (who donated the handsets) and tech firm Ymogen.
Ymogen began working with students from the University of Brighton in December 2006 to explore ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
We've secured support from the BBC, Creative London and Screen Yorkshire to organise a Crossover-style Lab in the UK. A collaboration with the International Documentary Festival in Sheffield, Crossover UK will offer talented and experienced documentary film and television makers from Yorkshire and London an opportunity to collaborate with new ...
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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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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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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
There has been a lot of very positive feedback about Crossover from the participants. Michael Cordell described it as “one of the most enjoyable creative and learning experiences I've ever had”. But there were times during the week when there was considerable scepticism about the value of the techniques ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Crossover finished last night. I had intended to blog from the event regularly but it was so full-on that there was no time to write anything (and, as the picture reveals, there were other distractions). The past five days have been the most challenging and creative Lab that I’ve directed ...
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
UK Sound TV is a broadband channel set up by Hi8us, the most dynamic media training and production organisation working with young people in England, and Space Studios,. Over the past couple of days I’ve been facilitating a sort of mini lab at the Spread Eagle in Midhurst for the ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
A couple of accounts of the Lab process. One was sent by David Kousemaker, one of the winners from last week's Mediaguild Lab. The other is about the last of the BBC Innovation Labs, a post by Rik Abel from Headshift I've only just come across.
This is what David found ...
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