Rick, John and Joe have done sterling work to get all the media ready and handed over. There're a mass of files, ranging from one-shot General Views for the students to use to example pieces of media to tutorials. They'll all be available on a creative commons basis once the course is up and running, and here's a preview for now:
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Two day film school, or 10 weeks?
Just saw an ad for this intensive 2 day film school in June in London: http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.php?id=565,7382,0,0,1,0
It looks very interesting and I'm tempted to sign up. It's for a completely different market than the Digital Film School - a rapid introduction if you want to make feature films, rather than starting from wherever you are and giving a grounding in actually making short films (for the internet). I'd like to think they'll be quite complementary, but that many more people will value what we have to offer.
One of the eye-catching differences - It costs £249.95+VAT for 2 days in central London. You can study T156 for less than that if you live in the UK from your own home without having to add in travel and accommodation.
It looks very interesting and I'm tempted to sign up. It's for a completely different market than the Digital Film School - a rapid introduction if you want to make feature films, rather than starting from wherever you are and giving a grounding in actually making short films (for the internet). I'd like to think they'll be quite complementary, but that many more people will value what we have to offer.
One of the eye-catching differences - It costs £249.95+VAT for 2 days in central London. You can study T156 for less than that if you live in the UK from your own home without having to add in travel and accommodation.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Unstructured authoring
The media team and our text editor are now engaging with the material, and there's the rather unholy task of pulling together a lot of material that was written at a gallop. At the same time I'm going back to feed in what the critical readers have come up with. Sections are moving around and titles changing and it was a little challenging this week to go through things section by section and see just how rough some bits are.
The good side of it is that this is all stuff the OU cares about. There'll be at least 2 more passes through the material to ensure that it's good enough to go public between now and October, and a lot of effort to make sure things are consistent. Of course even then a few small things will slip through, but I'm sure we'll be able to present students with material we can be proud of. I can't wait.
The good side of it is that this is all stuff the OU cares about. There'll be at least 2 more passes through the material to ensure that it's good enough to go public between now and October, and a lot of effort to make sure things are consistent. Of course even then a few small things will slip through, but I'm sure we'll be able to present students with material we can be proud of. I can't wait.
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