Production Starts

Just spent the first actual day of course production on a new course.  It's going to be fun - an introductory course on digital video.  10 hours per week of study for 10 weeks, presented anywhere in the world, and aiming at people who want to learn how to make video from scratch or improve what they can do.  We think it'll suit enthusiasts and professionals who're finding making media is something they're being asked to do, as well people thinking about going into the industry and wanting to get a feel for the range of different roles they might like to follow.

It's taken a while to get off the ground, for all kinds of reasons, but after three years of preparation and proposals and negotiation, we've just had our first 8 hours of proper, paid for production time.  And after all that preparation, we spent the day taking what we'd done to bits - we know there's too much in there and it's about taking things out and smoothing it over.  We've given ourselves a presentation to do for next week where we show the concept and the approach to a selection of OU people for comment.  No real pressure, but a straight deadline and one more working day before we need an outline we can defend in public.