Learning on ScreenNews Archive for January, 2011
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Learning on Screen Conference – Registration Open
Published: 28 January 2011The Learning on Screen Conference, to be held at the National Film Theatre (BFI Southbank), London on 24 March 2011, will focus on the importance and benefits of using moving image and sound in education. As student fees increase and institution budgets are cut, the need to meet and exceed student learning expectations, without increasing costs, is of paramount […]
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Latest BUFVC Gateway updates
Published: 27 January 2011Here are a few of the Moving Image Gateway entries that have been updated in the last few days: Academy of American Poets The Academy keeps a complete archive of its live poetry readings and other events, dating back to John Berryman’s historic first reading of The Dream Songs on Halloween night, 1963. The resulting […]
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Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 26 January 2011For the week ending 21 January 2011 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include various documentaries on those living outside of the mainstream and those hoping to succeed in UK service industries. 1. MICHEL ROUX’S SERVICE (BBC2) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National More information is available from […]
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Manifesto for Media Education
Published: 25 January 2011The media school at Bournemouth University have initiated project with the stated aim of attempting to, … develop a shared understanding, some shared reasons, for media education. We hope that by the end of the project (which will start life as a website and then result in a book) we will have a better, more […]
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Embedding video software
Published: 21 January 2011EmbedPlus allows users to seamlessly and freely upgrade video embeds with useful features that the standard player does not currently offer. Given a YouTube link it will generate enhanced embed code that adds features such as DVD-like controls, internet reactions, third-party annotations, and more. EmbedPlus can usefully offer viewers more content without having to actually […]
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DISCOVERING HAMLET released on DVD
Published: 20 January 2011DISCOVERING HAMLET, the 1990 PBS documentary about Derek Jacobi’s 1988 production of Hamlet for the Renaissance Theatre Company with Kenneth Branagh in the title role, will be released on DVD by Acorn Media’s documentary imprint Athena on February 1st. Three hours of bonus features include exclusive behind-the scenes footage and extended interviews with Jacobi and […]
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Muybridgizer app
Published: 20 January 2011The Muybridgizer is a free iPhone app available for download in the iTunes App Store. It allows iPhone photographers to take pictures inspired by Muybridge’s iconic motion capture experiments. The release of the app in in conjunction with the major exhibition of the British-born pioneer’s work at Tate Britain which closed this weekend after 4 […]
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Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 18 January 2011For the week ending 14 January 2011 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include some perhaps inevitable post-Christmas programmes on health and dieting. 1. 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT (BBC1) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National More information is available on the BBC website […]
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Farflungfamilies.net launched
Published: 17 January 2011Farflungfamilies.net is the website of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project examining the representation of the diasporic family in contemporary cinema. The project is based at Royal Holloway, University of London and coordinated by Dr Daniela Berghahn. The site provides information about the scope, aims and objectives of the project, a small […]
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Farewell to Anne Francis
Published: 14 January 2011Anne Francis, star of FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), a science-fiction retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and cover model of BUFVC’s Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher’s Guide (2009), died in California on the 2 January aged 80. Francis, who made her Broadway debut at the age of 11, was the only woman in the […]
