Media Magazine Notes
Nik Powell: A Producer's Life
Director of he National Film and Televison school for 13years.
Discussed his legendary career as a producer.
Producers are craftsmen, ghosts
- Like an entrepreneur - money distribution
- Type of boss = Except for when shooting then its the director.
Lesson 1: Don't choose houses, choose neighbours
- Familiarity makes content.
- People are important, not institutions
Lesson 2: One head is a head, two heads are gold = Working together
Lesson 3: Don't do what you think looks nice, do stuff that fit the customers (comfortability)
Lesson 4: Don't be fearful of doing something you haven't seen done before
Lesson 5: Importance of taste - Judge who/what will be successful.
Lesson 6: Leadership - being a boss, responsibility
Lesson 7: Restart after one business ends
Lesson 8: Have no shame, ignore other's opinion
Lesson 9: Own films
Lesson 10: Win Awards
Lesson 11: Importance of script patience
Lesson 12: Importance of good manners
Lesosn 13: seven stages of film production
Lesson 14: Be prepared, do something unusual that progresses the story even further.
"the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."
Samira Ahmed
She has a special interest in the intersection of culture, politics and social change
samiraahmed.co.uk
- World of media has transformed
- News - The romantic view = Trenchcoat, Hat (Journalism)
= Serve the public interests
- The beige truth - White men, Beige coats.
Literary criticism
- Distinguish between outlets and how they tell stories
- Who gets covered
- What gets covered
- Who selects what gets covered
- Watch newswatch
Shashi Kapoor - Didn't show him in the videos
- BBC apologies (pluralism)
Twitter reactions = girls fined £150 lemonade stand
- Something said on social media - over exaggerated
- Not whole truth (citizen Journalism)
NEWS
- Vague language - Militant not terrorist
- Dodgy assumptions - Hugh Hefner = liberator of women - not the case
- Prioritising white brits over poor black - news values
- Careless statisitcs - how data is represented
- Errors
- Missing news
- THAT's NOT NEWS - BBC news on peaches Geldof = not news
- Biggest hit on social media
- Celebrity culture is embraced
- Telling personal stories, making news more real
(Melania Trumps - Instagram feed thesis)
Clickbait BBC
- Entertain, Inform, Educate.
- Need time for indepth journalism
- Things are challenged more (pluralism)
- Update news constantly - immediacy
- Trump challenges journalism - destructive
- Journalism - were respected
- We can all be manipulated
Lesley Manning: 25 Year since Ghostwatch
Lead tutor on the BFI Film Academy/NFTS Craft Residential course
- Everyone was angry - Real or fake
- Complaints were often white males
- Didn't share the opinions of those who like it.
- VHS - £50
- BBC kept it quiet for 10 years
- "he's dead" - 'he' was a woman
- Pure Horror - Paranormal activity has credited them.
- Problems with not being able to tell fact or fiction
- Made to make a comment on television
- Elements of horror - fear of the unknown
- didn't know where the camera would look at next.
"Television with it's formidable power should be cautious when combining drama documentaries with fiction."
- Technically ambitious
- Elephants do not make a sound when they walk - it is expected
Tom Edge: Truth and storytelling, or from Existential Crisis to Netflix in 100,00 years
- Truth + Fiction
- Hermann Ebbinghaus - Theory
- Truth in Storytelling - Audiences connect with it
Essentials in drama
- Somebody wants something
- Why cant they get it
- Why does it matter now
1) What is the episode trying to say
2) How do we find the facts
Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie
- "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.''
-Women have idealistic lifestyle
- Contrast - opening situations
- Achieving initial goals
- Embracing authentic states
Adam Buxton: BUG
British comedian, actor and director
BUG - Bi-monthly live show that combines music videos and comedy
CREATIVITIPS
1) Make Pointless things
2) Try and work with people wo are more talented
3) leave a few things to the last minute
4) Try the same thing in different contexts
5) Know when to sell out
6) Exploit friends and family.
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