Elizabeth-Anne's Blog (10)

Media is one of the fastest growing industries in Cardiff, with many organisations based around the regenerated Cardiff Bay. But are things as healthy as they seem? Since the success of Russell T. Davies’ re-launch of Doctor Who and its sister programme Torchwood, Car… Continue

Or: no website is an island.

Something that can be understood by anyone who uses the internet even on a casual level the principle that is at the heart of the internet age itself: the web as a social network. Ten years ago this took the form of mailing lists where parties with similar interests would gather to geek out about whether the Nazgul have usable wings. Now utilising interest groups is a multi-million dollar business.

Anthony Mayfield spoke to us on the issues jou… Continue

Following a tip off from Tim, I have signed up to Project Loudmouth, the beta form of a social networking site from EMAP. (I can be found under queeniefox) And they really do mean beta. Currently it's so beta that I can't actually see the point of it, other than it offers me yet another opportunity to fill in lots of little coloured boxes indentifying myself purely by what films I like.

However, even its current ropey state, it looks more i… Continue

At last, a bit of realism!

While I may not have been with him on all counts, in general I left Richard Burton's lecture with a great feeling of relief that I was not in fact, going mad. Burton - no doubt because of his old school print background - was unafraid to point out that online journalism has not yet taken over the world.

People still read the paper on the train. There are still a seperate desk in every newsroom where content is adapted for the web. Convergence has not… Continue

Well, that last hour was not really what I came to university for to be honest.

I expected that in the Nokia Trends Lab workshops we would be shown how to use the phones we had been told about all morning. In reality we were just given them with no instruction, and although once we had grasped the basic principles it was not excessively hard to film a one minute clip, most of our time was spent pressing buttons randomly. We could have achieved such knowledge of the phones on our own.… Continue

Or possibly a free woman.

(This has been cross posted to my two other blogs so excuse wavering style!)

We just had a big talk from guys working for Nokia Trends Lab, which gives out Nokia's newest phones to bands and such like, giving them the opportunity to experiment with digital media while at the same time getting good exposure for their brand. Where we benfit from all this is that Nokia let us play with some very nice N95 phones… Continue

In an age where You Tube is overrun with clips of skateboarding dogs and badly performed covers of Bob Dylan songs, Daniel Meadows wants to bring narrative back into digital video. The clips we viewed in this lecture, both from Meadow's own website and elsewhere were at the same time something interestingly new and something old fashioned. They reminded me not only home movies but of the documentaries of Humphrey Jenni

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Capturing Cardiff proposal

For my Capturing Cardiff article, I propose to look at the rise of television companies based in Cardiff. Everyone knows about the success of BBC Wales' Doctor Who Torchwood programmes, but there is more to the story than this well known name. It is this wider story that I wish to explore.

Cardiff is rapidly becoming a highly viable city in which to base television production. This is reflected in the fact that Green Bay Media, which has produce… Continue

I have been thinking about my last post on You Tube, and have concluded that I am a bit dense. If I look on my Netvibes page then, quite apart from the actual newspaper feeds, most of the sites I watch are using embedded video, courtesy of You Tube or other hosting software. Looking at Feministing along I can see the blog using video to bring local, national and international issues to a larger audience, to expose sexism in popular culture, and to promot… Continue

Well, that was a good start. I had to delete my orginal profile and start again because I'd ballsed the first one up so much. EXCELLENT. So now I'm not touching anything on here again. Except this blog, obviously. Um.
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