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Quick Links
| Author: | edeverett |
| Date: | Wed, 06/12/2006 - 21:52 |
| Category: | Comment > General |
Links are what makes the internet great, so here are a few for your browsing pleasure:
Is this the inspiration for the Sony's bouncing balls?
http://www.e-cr.co.uk/crblog/?p=300
"Ubois cites a recent European video-archiving study that found TV tape storage begins to degrade after 20 years. That means 70 percent of existing TV footage will be gone by 2025. Imagine if 70 percent of existing books were going to be burned by 2025." The problems faced by US television researchers
User Generated Content
| Author: | Zara |
| Date: | Mon, 13/11/2006 - 18:31 |
| Category: | Comment > General |
The buzz word at the moment is citizen journalism. CNN provides these journalists with their own weekly program, the BBC invites people to submit their news, and July saw the first Citizen Journalism Awards. Of course Citizen Journalism is nothing new, but the demand for this type of content appears to be on the rise. So much so that it is being branded as a genre - 'social media'.
Three Links
| Author: | edeverett |
| Date: | Tue, 25/07/2006 - 21:37 |
| Category: | Comment > General |
Opensource animation:
Free Jack is providing all their .fla flash source files and bitmaps for use under a Creative Commons license.
"We love animation and we just know you do too. We're proud of Odd Job Jack and we've put lots of work into our show. Our art deserves to live beyond broadcast and who better to give a free gift to than the entire planet?"
Getting Ideas
| Author: | Zara |
| Date: | Tue, 30/05/2006 - 08:07 |
| Category: | Comment > Writing |
Raindance's Elliot Grove has kindly shared an excerpt from his book Raindance Writer's Lab: Write + Sell the Hot Screenplay" with us. Check it out in our Features section.
BBC's "Creative Future"; a film buff's question
| Author: | LL |
| Date: | Tue, 02/05/2006 - 13:14 |
| Category: | Comment > Broadcasting |
Director General Mark Thompson's RTS speech on Tuesday is well worth reading in full. If you'd rather bleed, here's a summary: digital's impact on the future will be "disruptive" but ultimately brilliant.
Procrastinations
| Author: | edeverett |
| Date: | Tue, 11/04/2006 - 20:23 |
| Category: | Comment > General |
A couple of film related links that recently caught my attention:
- And you thought you're job was insecure already? You'll soon be replaced by robots anyway...
First Response
| Author: | Lucas |
| Date: | Sun, 09/04/2006 - 22:11 |
| Category: | Comment > Writing |
We have a new article on film criticism:
More often than not we know more about the film we are going to see than we need to. It leads to us being conservative in our choices and stops us from appreciating film's greatest pleasure: spontaneously responding to what is happening on the screen.
You never forget your first time...
Read the full article here
First Response
| Author: | Lucas |
| Date: | Sun, 09/04/2006 - 19:22 |
| Category: | Comment > Writing |
More often than not we know more about the film we are going to see than we need to. It leads to us being conservative in our choices and stops us from appreciating film's greatest pleasure: spontaneously responding to what is happening on the screen.
