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Paid Training Opportunity at 01Zero-One

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Do you work in Broadcast? In: • Multi purpose/format editing • Interactive producer/production • IT/Media Integration • Web meets Audio Visual • HD Engineering/Science • Live Events/Music Directing (Vision Mixing) • Broadcast Media Graphics • Presenting for Live Events • HD (5.1) Sound • Mutliplatform Writer/Project Creator 01Zero-One is building a pool of Industry trainers for 2012 – would you like ...

InSync: Rise of the Post-Network Brandcasters 28/02/08

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Consumers ARE connected. The market IS a conversation Convergence HAS happened. Broadband is MASS market. Mobile finally works. …and everywhere we look we see rich content…. But where does all the content come from? The last two years has seen an explosion in user generated content and new channels but research is showing that as audiences ...

Creative Industries - £10m Call for Collaborative Research

Friday, January 25th, 2008

On 30th January details about the £10m call for collaborative research projects, targeted specifically at the creative industries, will be announced and the competition formally launched. Full details about the call and how to apply will be posted on the technology programme website. Objectives In recognition of the importance of technology to ...

Content 360: designing a lab for MipTV

Friday, January 11th, 2008

We've been asked to run a 2 day 'innovation lab'  as part of the Content 360 pitching competition at this year's Mip TV in Cannes. It's an interesting development from last year when we worked with the BBC on their categories in the competition. This time we're working with Ogilvy (part ...

Buzz in Leicester

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Spoke yesterday at a conference on Creativity:Innovation and Industry, organised by the Insititute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester. The other contributors were two academics, Professor Margaret Boden and Dr Claudia Eckert, and Toby Moores of Sleepy Dog, the company that brought us Buzz. Annoyingly I managed to ...

Big Apple

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Originally uploaded by FrankBoyd In New York to run a workshop at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers. The brief is more or less: do Crossover (normally a five day lab) in four hours. I have a feeling that this crowd, who are all from television, are going to ...

Muddy Boots: prototype from the 2007 Innovation Labs

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

One of the projects commissioned from last year's northern Innovation Lab at Swinton Park has gone up on Rattle Research's site. "Muddy Boots is a project prototype commisioned by the BBC to investigate the ways in which social metadata can be utilised within the BBC. It's called Muddy Boots because we ...

Crossover Pitch Competition

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The final act of Crossover UK was Cross-Platform Pitch competition at the Doc/Fest in Sheffield. The whole DigiDocs strand was well attended and we had a full house for the pitches. Four of the teams which formed for the last two days of Crossover in October chose to pitch the projects ...

Digidocs at the Doc/Fest

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The Doc/Fest in Sheffield started last night with a fine documentary about Joy Division written by Jon Savage. The festival starts in earnest today. It has been transformed over the past two years, doubling its budget and the number of delegates attending.  They've also introduced a 'Digi-docs' strand looking at the ...

Staggered

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The Soho Project climaxed on Saturday with a live Stag hunt starting from the steps of Blake House. Weekend shoppers on Carnaby Street didn't seem unduly phased by the sight of resistance operatives attaching gold balloons to the creature's antlers.