Archive for February, 2010
Well done
Well done for today’s session.
Please post link to edited pieces as a reply to this post. Got the first one already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0zarR7Nxk
You worked well together but the learning will really come from the reflection on both the activitiy, the content of the lecture, your analysis of the edited pieces and how what you learned relates to your own production. So, it would be very good to see this on your module blog (hint, hint!).
Cluster session: Friday 26th February
Owing to various external circumstances over which I have no control, the session this week has had to be changed. The format for the day will now be as follows:
9.00 – 10.00 Lecture in ET34
10.00 – 1.00 Workshop and production of practice pieces (outlined in lecture at 9.00 so you all need to be there to understand what is happening: it is quite complicated)
1.00: Coventry Conversation with Jana Bennett (BBC number 3: EXCEPTIONALLY powerful woman in BBC and in world media so all of you should be at that). Nobody was at the Andrew Davies session last week (one of the most infulential and powerful scriptwriters in the country): you REALLY are missing out BIG TIME by not going to these sessions.
2.00 onwards: completion of practice pieces.
Interim Crits: Update
The crits for the drama video cluster will happen at 9.00 on Thursday in GSG11. Please make sure that you are there in good time and that your presentations are ready to go. You must upload electronic presentations to your blog and have USB as backup. The Uni computers can take up to 10 minutes to load USBs (as they need to be fully virus checked) so you should NOT bring your presentations on a USB. Each presentation will last ten minutes (including feedback).
Interim Crits: 24th/25th February
Interim crits on the module will take place on either Thursday 24th February (for Video Cluster Drama only) or Friday 25th February. They will happen within your normal clusters.
They are formal, ten-minute presentations where you will outline the research and development work that you have done since submitting your initial proposals. You will obtain feedback on your work from staff and the other students in the cluster that will enable you to move your ideas further forward. You will be allocated three student blogs that you need to visit and make further constructive comments after the presentations.
The proposals submitted were, on the whole, very superficial so these presentations are an opportunity to really sell your project in terms of its creativity and feasibility. As the proposals were so scant, final decisions about whether projects should proceed will be made on the basis of these presentations so you must take them seriously. We want to see detail about your process not simply a chat about how you are getting on so you should prepare your presentation well in advance.
Friday 19th January
Just to confirm that the camerwaork workshop will NOT take place tomorrow as scheduled but will now take place the following week in conjunction with the working with actors workshop. The SQN mixer session WILL take place tomorrow as planned at 1.00 with Paul Adkins.
Cheers
S&C
Possible Opportunity
This has just arrived. Not sure how useful but the team behind it are world-renowned documentary makers. If interested, you MUST go to the session (taking a CV and showreel of your work of course!)
Friday 12th February
The time of this Friday’s session on sound kit and the audio kit/Audition has been changed. It will now run 11.00 – 1.00 in ET313 with Paul Adkins.
Cheers
S
Possible opporunity for after graduation
Have not looked into this so not sure if it is of any use. Let me know.
S
Note for those in broadcast cluster as well.
Friday 3rd February Broadcast cluster – Radio skills session . 9-11am with Paul Adkins in the radio studios. Please make every effort to attend. Thank you Karen.
Please let anyone else know who might be interested.
