Media Conference Notes

MM Conference Notes

How to be creative- 7 tips from the front line:

1) Volunteer- getting involved

2) Circles

3) Beachcombing

4)No one comes from nowhere

5) Put everything in to everything (but life is not a meritocracy)

6) Don't wait to be invited to dance

7) The day after you finish, what do you do?

The UK Script Writers Survival Handbook - Time Clague

Chucklefish Games:

• Long road
• Mixed Media
• Internship
• Apps
• Kickstarter
• Steam
• Disney

Sports Journalism:

• Seek new information
• Be prepared
• Believe in yourself
• BE YOURSELF
• Sports media has a lack of diversity
• Diversity offers better range of viewers and perspectives
• Challenge respectfully
• Stay true to your own values

Young Film Makers Panel:

• NFTS
• Ravensbourne
• National TV school
• Internship will have tasks given such as, "create a commercial advert..."

Advice-

• gain a living
• do a unit in film
• highest standard- push yourself
• mistakes are key
• DO IT!

Media Democracy:

• "Increasing control" of all media by a few corporations
• "The economic crisis, vicious spending cuts"
• "Social, cultural, economic and institutional racism"
• Educational exclusion/social fragmentation

Sites of socialisation-

• Family, media and social/college
• Families/schools which encourage a wide range of media consumption and greater amount of debate.
• Youth voice
• A very limited range of ideological positions (Goffman) and imaginaries (Taylor)
• Traditional media is still big tools in young people's lives

Tony Garnett:

• Person- sense of producer
• Ordinary working people- ordinary citizens
• Each film shows truth- but not 'the truth'
• each film is political- how we choose our thoughts to live together
• research-facts-out in to the world- film
• belief
• create a creative environment for yourself (inside)