One-Day Media Workshops

WHEN GLOBAL MET LOCAL

This is a one-day workshop examining the intrinsic characteristics of local and community media as compared with the world of broadcasting and mainstream media. Whether you are filmmaker, teacher, media graduate or student, this exploration of our shifting media culture will prime new thinking and pose telling questions for continuing deliberation.

Chris Haydon, director of CTVT, leads the day. Following a freelance career producing and directing for ITV, C4, US and corporate clients, Haydon has spent the last ten years exploring the UK media landscape from the local perspective.

You will explore a variety of themes involving some practical work:

• Regulating media and promoting culture: trust, ethics, law & the role of Ofcom … does Public Service Broadcasting have relevance in today’s hi-tech multichannel environment ?
• Broadband & Radio as conduits for local media
• Young people’s instinctive grasp of multimedia skills: the C21st way of life
• YouTube’s free service, global impact & communities of interest
• Negative news agendas: a public health issue … combined with practical shooting & editing of a local news story to explore moral dilemmas and editorial responsibilities
• Corporate agendas & branded news
• Linear scheduling: the end of the road ?
• Attention spans, DVD architecture, non-linear viewing habits

One feature of the day will be Haydon giving a Paper on “Local Media & Spirituality” written for a conference in Teheran last year.

Please note that this workshop is limited to eight spaces. Fee payable in advance to Community TV Trust.
Refreshments supplied.
Contact: chris@communitytvtrust.org or 07970 970 715

Community TV Trust is a specialist charity promoting community media’s potential and local media practice.

It’s a:  masterclass

Venue:  Elephant & Castle, London

Location:  Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Road SE17 1LB, London, United Kingdom

Date and time:  Saturday 26 September 10am to 5pm

Rates:  £150