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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
In July 2006, we organised a debate at InSync with leading commissioners and producers from the UK’s broadcast industry on the ‘Future of Documentary’. This year we’re going one better by offering an opportunity to be part of creating it.
On June 20th, InSync will host the London launch of Crossover ...
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
The ability to tell stories about our selves and share experience is is what separates us from other creatures on the planet according to István Szabó, director of Mephisto, Sunshine and Being Julia.
Szabó was speaking at an EBU seminar on Storytelling in Lucerne where he was followed by Jean Claude ...
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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, 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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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
In the past three years both I and my partner, Jude Williams, have won battles with cancer. I had a major operation three years ago. Her struggle started in January 2006 with a hysterectomy, she then underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy. After a period of convalescence she started work again in ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Greg Childs, a former colleague from CBBC, is involved in a campaign to protect children's television from the damaging impact of audience fragmentation and the loss of revenue caused by the regulation of advertising.
"Save Kids' TV is a coalition of parents, producers, artists, educators and others concerned about screen-based media ...
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
I was really nervous about this one. I'd expected the tv producers from BBC Comedy to be sceptical, cynical and resistant to structured creative exercises. Some of them had had their arms twisted to participate and at least one arrived at the Spread Eagle distinctly unamused at being made ...
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
At the Broadcast Live show at Earls Court, all the hardware sales pitches seemed to be about HD; all the panels were obsessed with how to generate revenue in an IPTV, video on demand world. One speaker, can't remember who now, suggested that it will be increasingly difficult for the ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
I made the mistake recently of 'upgrading' my phone to the O2 XDA exec. It's an appallingly designed piece of equipment. I have this naive faith that the perfect handheld device: phone, PDA, games platform, music player, hand-warmer is just about to appear on the market. I knew that the ...
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Occasionally I'm reminded what a great project Artec was.
I met Mervyn Jarman today; he was a trainee at Artec in about 1996 or '97, one of a group that set up Mongrel with Graham Harwood.
Mervyn's major project over the past 5 years or so has been 'the Container Project': "a ...
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