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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
We're now looking for participants for this year's Crossover programme.
Crossover is an extraordinary series of ‘innovation labs’ for creative professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds: game developers, tv and film producers, web designers, animators, theatre practitioners and others. Each Crossover lab is an immersive, five day incubator fostering new ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
In Göteborg for the launch of Crossover Nordic at Lindholmen Science Park, my presentation was preceded by a talk from Michael Gubbins, Editor of Screen International.
His theme was the inevitable shift from theatres and DVD to digital download as the primary means of distribution of feature films. To date, Hollywood’s ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Unexpected Media has had an extraordinarily busy couple of months including a visit to Winnipeg to run a workshop for the National Screen Institute of Canada, a "meet the players" session at the European Media Event in Brussels, three Innovation Labs for the BBC (with one more still ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
What is Tim Wright up to?
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
We've been working with Jon Kingsbury at NESTA to support the development of a new programme designed to encourage innovation in the distribution of film. In a first phase Unexpected Media facilitated a workshop to help define the scope of the project and inform the drafting of the 'request ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Meet the Players was part of the European Media Event, held in Brussels between 3th of and 8th of March.
The aim of the week is to turn a spotlight on the independent documentary sector and it's relation to the public broadcasters, but also to try to draw attention ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I wrote last week about the presentation by someone from ITV Imagine at a Digital Horizons seminar; disappointment at the channels failure of imagination was offset by an unexpectedly insightful talk given by a researcher from the University of Sussex, Michael Bull.
Michael focuses on people’s use of media products as ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
At a seminar that I chaired for Digital Horizons last week, a presenter from a department at ITV called Imagine presented their vision of the future.
I hadn't heard of Imagine before but it now employs 15 people and exists to inform internal and external producers, commissioners and execs at ITV ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Andy Palacio a musician and artist, who worked with me at the community media organisation Cultural Partnerships in the 1980s, died last month aged 47.
A member of the Garifuna people in Belize, Andy was a talented musician and passionate about preserving and promoting Garifuna language and culture.
Andy, whose musical career ...
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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 ...
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