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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Presented by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (in association with Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover Labs) Digital Revolutions is the biggest short film competition around and you don’t need to be a professional to enter! With a professional and amateur category this competition is open to all... So, put on ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
A KPMG study, covered by here by the Daily Telegraph, shows that UK consumers remain far less willing than their global counterparts to pay for digital content, especially when compared with the BRIC countries.
Britons are, however, more willing to accept targeted advertising on communication devices and are willing ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has published six template contracts to help digital agencies retain more of their intellectual property rights when negotiating commissions with public organisations.
http://www.nma.co.uk/news/nesta-issues-templates-for-ip-rights-deals/3011008.article
Summary of the Frameworks and the templates and how they can be used can be accessed here
http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/creative_industries/digital_innovation/ipr_frameworks
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
One of the most striking online documentaries yet was Arte's Gaza/Sderot, produced by Serge Gordey.
He has now followed it with Havana/Miami which looks at the different aspirations of and challenges facing young Cubans on opposite sides of the Straits of Florida.
"The Cuban Revolution happened more than fifty years ago – ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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Jamie Campbell from Juice Games who was a participant in Crossover Play has written an article about the experience. You can read ithere
Another participant, Karen Johnson, has given an account on her blog.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
A press release from Channel 4:
Channel 4 is delighted to announce a new partnership with Crossover, the cutting-edge media training organisation that specialises in preparing producers to embrace the cross-platform future and new opportunities in emerging digital media. Channel 4 is leading the way by being the first broadcaster in ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I’ve been doing some work with the UK Government’s Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) which was established around a year ago to advise ministers on creating frameworks for regulation. I was invited to help design and facilitate an idea generation session involving representatives of industry and consumer organisations ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Some thoughts on what the creative media industries are: http://bit.ly/Ud1Xh from Triston Wallace at the UK's lead body for training in the audiovisual industries.
"Traditionally the creative media industry is split into different categories - Film, TV, Radio, Photo
Imaging, Publishing, Computer Games, Advertising, etc. The boundaries and divisions of these
seemingly ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
We've just completed our first lab specifically to explore Channel 4's programme for new kinds of public service media, 4iP. It was commissioned by Northern Film and Media and held in the spectacular Turbine Hall of Newcastle's CastleGate Centre.
As part of the preparation for it, I asked one of the ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
We’re now able to invite applications the first UK Crossover in 2009.
Crossover Play will explore new forms of entertainment for digital media: the relationship between play and narrative, formats dependent on user contributions, mobile or location based entertainment with a broadcast component. And of course, games: social and casual games, ...
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