Released yesterday by the British Film Institute, a 4-DVD set of short films, Land Of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950. This follows the two main DVDs of the crucial Humphrey Jennings films, the two DVD volumes of the The General Post Office Film Unit Collection, and (although more transpotter-ish) the nine DVD volumes of The British Transport Films Collection.
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British Documentary Movement 1930-1950
The annual London Zine Symposium is here again, this year it’s on 3rd May.
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London Zine Symposium
Lots of juicy papers and some videos are now online from the latest MIT6 conference. Including: “The Scholarship of Sound and Image: Producing Media Criticism in the Digital Age” “Do Mainstream Games Exist? : Reflections on Independent Game Culture” “Video Games and Transmedia Storytelling”, and “Digital Cartographical Interfaces as Transformative Material Practices”, among others. And, being MIT, there are also lolcats in the mix: “The Digital and teh Cute”.
I’m currently working through the the excellent SF TV series Firefly on DVD, so “Versioning and the Fluid Text” (Powerpoint) was also interesting for being academic thinking (outside of marketeering journals) about the sheer range and sophistication of the repurposing, repackaging, and merchandising of media content, and how this ties into what the fans are doing. The U.S. TV show Firefly for instance, has been…
A DVD set of the series. A HD DVD set of the series. A Blu-Ray DVD set of the series. Two books of academic essays on the series. A cinema movie. A DVD of the cinema movie. A Blue-Ray DVD of the cinema movie (with all sorts of extras). Two multi-cover comic-book mini-series, with a plot sitting between the end of the series and the start of the film. Two hardback graphic novels made from the collected comics mini-series. A commercial role-playing game in rule-book form, significantly expanded with fan-made content. A web-only set of shorts as a prequel to the series. Several fan-made films. And I think also a couple of novelisations and inumerable posters, t-shirts, etc.
… and all that from one TV series that was cancelled even before the series ended its first showing on TV.
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Screen West Midlands has a tasty new job on offer, although the salary is not so tasty. The ‘Innovation and New Markets Executive’ will deliver…
“a programme of support for digital projects and companies in the region including events, project development and production funding and identifying new trends in digital media, technology and emerging business models.”
Deadline: 14th May 09.
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Two new sets of pictures from Louviere+Vanessa.
“If X, then why?”. Louviere+Vanessa.
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