Latest on: DVD
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New articles and reviews at Viewfinder Online
Published: 10 May 2013Viewfinder Online aggregates some of the content from the Viewfinder print magazine but also published new and original material. Some of the latest items published on the site include: We Need to Talk about Dying Someone in Britain dies every minute but many risk missing out on having their end of life wishes met due …
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Spring edition of Viewfinder is here
Published: 1 March 2013
Viewfinder 90 includes articles on British cinema colour, Mental Health TV, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, music, podcasting and more. -
BBFCinsight
Published: 28 February 2013The BBFC publishes detailed information about the content of every film that they rate via BBFCinsight, which is aimed particularly at parents. It offers a summary of how and why a film was rated at any given category. BBFCinsight highlights the key issues in a film then expands on this giving examples of the sorts …
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Concord Media launch new website
Published: 14 December 2012Concord Media, the venerable distributor of educational film and video content, has unveiled it new website, which can be accessed at: www.concordmedia.org.uk. It contains some new features such as video clips, case studies and improved search capabilities. New film listings include: How to Boil a Frog – on the climate change theme; Making the most …
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Winter Viewfinder published
Published: 27 November 2012
Viewfinder 89 is now out and includes articles on Open Resources, Universal Shakespeare, marketing education, 30 years of Channel 4 and more. -
Pioneering project to create citation guidelines for AV content
Published: 5 November 2012Despite the exponential increase in the use of audiovisual material in teaching, learning and research in higher and further education, existing guidelines for the citation of moving image and sound are insufficient as they are based on standards developed for the written word. This has the effect of discouraging the citing of moving image and …
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests
Published: 2 November 2012For the week ending 26th October 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include coverage of such topics as careers, disability, prison life, the biology life and death on earth and modern art. 1. HOTEL GB (CHANNEL 4) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National. For more information, please go …
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BFI Statistical Yearbook 2012 published
Published: 26 July 2012British film thrived during 2011 according to new figures published today by the British Film Institute (BFI). Compiled by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit, the Statistical Yearbook presents the most comprehensive picture of film in the UK and the performance of British films abroad during 2011. Now in its tenth year, the Yearbook aims …
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Classics on TV: Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen
Published: 22 May 2012In June the BFI is launching a season of rarely-seen-before TV productions of Greek tragedy, offering a fascinating range of approaches to screen presentations of ancient Greece in association with Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television, an AHRC-funded research project based in the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster. These plays …
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56 Up at BAFTA today
Published: 8 May 2012The Seven Up series of TV documentaries by Michael Apted has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 at seven yearly intervals, with the next edition planned for screening on ITV later in 2012. Today there will be a special screening at BAFTA in London of 56 Up, the new film in the …
