Want to get in to the BBC?

If you want to work in broadcasting or the media, then kick-starting your career with training at the BBC is a great way to Get In. 

As well as apprenticeships (aimed at school leavers) and traineeships (aimed at graduates) the BBC can also offer two weeks of work experience - which is right for you?

The BBC are looking for people who are passionate about a career in one of the most interesting, demanding and creative industries out there. They're not focused on your qualifications - what they want to know is whether you have the drive, commitment and ideas necessary to make it in the media.

The full list of opportunities is can be found using the link below, with schemes opening throughout the year. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes-and-apprenticeships

Vacancies for the apprenticeship with the BBC are open from 13^th March which will cover the following areas;

Production

Business

Technology

Journalism

Students need to be 18 year by September in order to be accepted.

The process is;

Go to www.bbc.co.uk/getin

Create your profile

Do on-line test

Telephone interview

Assessment centre recruitment day

You will be trained at the new BBC Training academy in Birmingham, however apprenticeships are in various locations.

To view a webinar from Simon Broad, BBC Academy Head of Operations and Development about the apprenticeships they have coming up and the criteria please click on the link below and register.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/5314136890602754817

The BFI Film Festival

The 60th BFI London Film Festival announces full 2016 programme

The full programme of films and events for the 60th BFI London Film Festival
has been unveiled.

The programme for the 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with
American Express® launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart
presenting this year’s diverse selection of films and events.

The BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of
the world’s best and most established film festivals. In its 60th year the
programme sees Headline Galas presented at the Odeon Leicester Square
on each evening of the 12-day festival. Festival visitors will be able to
enjoy a brand new cinema experience with Competition and Strand
Galas presented at the new Embankment Garden Cinema, in the
beautiful Victoria Embankment Gardens. With 780 cinema-style seats,
Dolby 7.1 surround sound and 4k digital projection, this temporary venue
brings the festival to even more people and connects screenings in the
West End with the BFI’s home cinema at BFI Southbank. This, combined
with the Festival’s Special Presentations, a rich, diverse programme of
international films, insightful events and talks with leading lights of
the international film and creative industries, reaffirms London’s position
as the world’s leading creative city.

• Explore the full programme

Bank, Camera, Action!

Dear Student Filmmaker,

The Bank of England has a brand new film competition 'Bank, Camera, Action' and we are inviting you to get involved by making a short film about "A day in the life of the New Fiver" to coincide with the introduction of our £5 polymer note.

The opportunity is to create a film that communicates the subject in an interesting and imaginative way. Students are free to use dance, music, poetry, rap, animation, graphics, cartoons, interviews, news items or any other fantastic ideas you may have. It's completely up to you, the more creative the better! Taking part will give teams the opportunity to showcase their talents and will appeal to students studying a broad range of subjects.

We look forward to receiving your entries and seeing everyone's creative side.

Kind regards,

Mark Carney
Governor

Entry form to be submitted by Monday 10th October
(click on link and scroll to to find link to the entry form)

BFI London Film Festival 2015

www.bfi.org.uk

Persuasive Elements

We have been discussing in class the use of 'persuasive elements' used by film-makers to emphasis a point or to illustrate an opinion. Film-makers employ a range of creative and technical techniques to communicate a range of ideas, messages or situations.

A recent text we have been focusing on is the 2004 documentary 'Fahrenheit 911' by Michael Moore. The text is about Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In this documentary we see Mr Moore use a range of persuasive elements to make his point and influence other. Below I discuss a range of these elements and how Moore used them within his film and what the purpose of this was.

For example.

• Selective Editing - where a cut away will be used to either strengthen a point being made or to act as a juxtaposition to what it being said.

Media Guardian

Turn it over the ads are on!

This is a familiar cry in every household, either that or the commencement of the adverts are a chance to put the kettle on. It's even possible forward past the ads now so you don't have to be bothered with pushy Meerkats or exaggerated Brummies talking enthusiastically about their holidays. But adverts can offer us a moment of brevity or anguish that their big brother programmes can sometimes miss.

Adverts - good ones - are a concentrated burst of film language that can showcase what it is to create a meaningful text in less than a minute. The Media Guardian has highlighted a selection of new ads currently on our TVs that offer us a slice of the bizarre, the dramatic and the though provoking.

www.theguardian.com/media

Future Film Festival at the BFI

The BFI Future Film Festival returns with an exciting line-up of events and screenings, to help you develop your own unique pathway into the world of film.

Each day will have a different focus (fiction, animation and documentary) and you can expect in-depth masterclasses, hands on workshops, screenings of the best new films by young, emerging filmmakers and inspirational Q&As.

Whether you are looking for a kick-start to your film career or you just want to try your hand at something new, the BFI Future Film Festival is here to inspire you.

To find out more and to book an event visit - www.whatson.bfi.org.uk/futurefilmfestival

Ones to watch in 2014

2014 is set to be another great year for film on a global scale. Below are three films coming out this year that deal with a wide and varied range of human emotion, interaction, morality, faith and tragedy.

KIDS FOR CASH is a riveting look behind the notorious judicial scandal that rocked the nation. Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, KIDS FOR CASH exposes a shocking American secret.

In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small town celebrates a charismatic judge who is hell-bent on keeping kids in line... until one parent dares to question the motives behind his brand of justice.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/kidsforcash/

Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of "Nobody Knows", "Still Walking" and "I Wish", returns to the big screen with another family - a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born.

Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not 'their' son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby.

Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between 'nature' and 'nurture.' Seeing Midori's devotion to Keita even after learning his origin, and communicating with the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a 'father' all these years.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/ifcfilms/likefatherlikeson/

Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, HEAVEN IS FOR REAL brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.

The film stars Academy Award nominee and Emmy award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real-life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth, things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/heavenisforreal/

Media Magazine Conference 2013

David Buckingham giving his talk on media, marketing and Young people

Friday 13th December saw the Institute of education hold Media Magazines' annual media conference. the conference was attended by over 500 media students who had the opportunity to listen and talk to a range of media professionals attend engaging workshops and to network with other students.

To find out more about the event and about Media magazine please use the links below.

http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/index.html

Scenes to Inspire

Above is the pivotal scene in Christopher Nolan's film 'The Dark Knight' starring Christian Bale as The Batman and Heath Ledger as The Joker.

As an avid Batman fan this scene brings these two legendary characters together and begins the telling of the Batman/Joker saga. These two opposing forces which act has each others driving force and nemesis creates a relationship unique in popular culture and film. One can not exist without the other which makes comment on the philosophy that good can not exist without evil.

Brilliantly acted by both Bale and Ledger this scene has a solid place in the 'great movie scenes of all time'.

Production Pitch

Production Pitch by Tony Buckmaster

Production Pitch

Production Pitch by Tony Buckmaster

Guardian Media Convention 2010

The Oxford Media Convention 2010 is a must for all those concerned with the future of Britain's creative industries.

The Oxford Convention is recognised as an industry-defining, calendar staple event.

For your chance to attend, please select the link below to find out more information and register.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/oxfordmediaconvention