Hi everyone, it's Rick here. I haven't posted anything so far but I just thought it'd be worth letting you know where we're at with the course. Alongside many of the meetings already outlined in the blog, a large part of this week has been about fine tuning the media that will be part of the course. I've been working very with Chris now for a number of years on participatory video and training projects as my own production company Catcher Media which has been doing video using participatory methods for over 14 years and we've been pulling in our knowledge of working with a very diverse range of groups to help shape the media for the course (as well as the rest of the content). In the course of my work I've worked with primary school-children, teachers, third sector workers and academics amongst other so as we're drafting the course I'm always trying to relate the materials to a really wide set of media needs.
It's been great linking up with John Sinton at the OBU too and he has been bringing all of his film-making and training expertise to bear on our thinking, which after the long gestation of the course is now moving at quite a pace.
The primary challenge for me at the moment is to ensure that the media contains all of the elements necessary but doesn't feel overloaded or too technical (in the first instance). Alot of the thinking behind the course has been to try and bring in those people that aren't interested primarily in the technology (or are afraid of it to some degree) but are keen to communicate using video, as well as setting enough challenges to people that are fairly happy with talk about codecs and shutter speeds. Much of the media will focus on generic video exercises and film grammar with much of the work of future-proofing the course done by social media content - forums and rating systems, so that as new technologies, new kit etc come online students can pick their own way through to some degree.
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