First print publication - publicity lealfet.

Another landmark - this time the first piece of published material associated with the course is through the hoops and looking quite pretty: Publicity leaflet

The next step is to get the course entry on the OU website up and running and we'll be taking registrations.  Any takers?

Watching rough cuts

Rick and I have spent the week in Herefordshire, knocking out D0s - outlines of the different weeks study in the course.  More on that later when we have one a little more tidied up to show, but in the meantime here's something a little rough:

http://podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/T156Development/20110215T110414_Getting_Your_media_in_to_your_computer.m4v


It can be hard work watching yourself on a rough cut - Why didn't we mention the mobile phone at all in the script, and why didn't I smile more?  The little miracle is the next stage - a fine cut will throw out unnecessary bits and fix the timing to flow much more smoothly.  Looking forward to it now.

Social Media

Cheap cameras and enough processing power were game changers in video.  Social media is the next.

The sequence went something like:  

i) Joe Smith hears I'm working up a proposal for a video course and gets in touch.  The resulting conversations leads to a partnership between the course and Joe's Creative Climate initiative.

ii) I blog about it (http://t156-dfilms.blogspot.com/2011/02/partnerships.html), posting an interview with him.

iii) That's posted to facebook by a Hungarian friend

iv) A friend of their's sees it and goes on to look at the Creative Climate site and then posts those links up too.

and so it goes...This kind of thing is changing distribution.