Our intention from the very beginnings of T156 was to have students work in conditions that matched the environment in which they could reasonably be expected to make films afterwards. This is reflected in the task briefs, the steer towards solving problems through asking for help from those who're able and willing to provide it, and building up confidence and trust so that feedback is helpful for improvement rather than threatening.
One of the things we are going to have to sharpen up on is making clearer that we expect students to post their work live on the internet. The most practical reason is that we can't compete with the likes of YouTube for development time and server space to produce an easy platform for uploading video that looks good across a big range of input file types. In a followup course it might be worth insisting on ogg files of less than 7MB for sharing, but it would be valuable for the challenge rather than because it matches the way most video is distributed these days.
However, it's also valuable for the challenge it presents. There's some emotional work to be done in making your work public. It puts an honesty and a discipline to the process. Not all students are keen to use video in this way, and of course we'd rather negotiate something with them that works well enough. But the preference is still very much oriented towards putting work online and seeing what the reaction is.
One of the things we are going to have to sharpen up on is making clearer that we expect students to post their work live on the internet. The most practical reason is that we can't compete with the likes of YouTube for development time and server space to produce an easy platform for uploading video that looks good across a big range of input file types. In a followup course it might be worth insisting on ogg files of less than 7MB for sharing, but it would be valuable for the challenge rather than because it matches the way most video is distributed these days.
However, it's also valuable for the challenge it presents. There's some emotional work to be done in making your work public. It puts an honesty and a discipline to the process. Not all students are keen to use video in this way, and of course we'd rather negotiate something with them that works well enough. But the preference is still very much oriented towards putting work online and seeing what the reaction is.
