Check it out at http://www.sirf.co.uk/

I’ll be there taking some photographs for Steve Thompson and the Tees Valley Community Media crew who are responsible for the live feed at the stage side screens and the behind the scenes work down at the main stage.  Photos and story to follow.

If you have a message you’d like to be displayed on the screen tweet with #ssf10

Develop Your Skills in Green Screen Performance and Enhance Your Career Options & Employment Credentials:
Teesside University continues to deliver a series of highly innovative courses aimed at professional actors and film directors. Back by popular demand is Acting for Green Screen – a three day course which teaches actors how to perform in the virtual environments that have become the norm in today’s Hollywood blockbuster movies.

Led by award-winning director Malachi Bogdanov (Associate Director English Shakespeare Company, Wales Theatre Company) and Visual Effects Technician Mark Buschbacher (Casino Royale, Da Vinci Code & Harry Potter), the course will prepare the delegates for working in modern film industry environments and situations.

This University accredited intensive short course offers a unique opportunity for professional actors to work in Teesside University’s industry standard High-Definition sound stage (the only one of its kind available to actors in the north of England) to develop skills in Green Screen performance, increasing their employability and enhancing their career options.

Develop essential skills & gain a postgraduate qualification:
Working with the director and technical director, the delegates will begin by preparing selected scenes where Green Screen technologies will be used. Characters and scenarios will be developed in a rehearsal setting – allowing the actors to work from their established skill set. Once these ideas have been ‘worked up’, they will be filmed in the University’s sound stage and Green Screen facility where objects, surrounding contexts and other characters are recreated and replaced. Successful participants will be awarded 20 University M-Level credits. These credits can count towards further study such as Post Graduate Certificate or MA courses.

Subsidised cost for eligible freelancers, sole traders and SME businesses:
While the course fee is normally £800.00, the University is able to offer it at a one-off highly subsidised price of just £170.00.

Book Now:
To reserve your place on this course please contact Scott Watson on 01642 738 527 or Email: s.watson@tees.ac.uk. Only 12 places are available so please book early to avoid disappointment.

This postgraduate course has been specifically designed for journalists and press officers who need to develop essential video production skills and an understanding of how to work effectively when producing online video news. It is being ran by the team who have delivered programmes to over 100 journalists from regional and national newspapers.

The course is being taught in two blocks of two-day workshops – a delivery method which enables the student to employ their new skills and understanding within their normal working environment during the course. Following the first set of workshops (4^th – 5^th November) the student is required to produce video content in their own working environment. On-line and telephone support is provided throughout this period. They will return to the University for a further two days of workshops on 25^th and 26^th November.

What you study:
This course focuses on the development of the technical skills you need as well as current practices in online video journalism and the opportunities it provides. While it will expand your knowledge and skills so you can produce effective stories in moving images, it will also explore its impact upon traditional journalistic practice.

How you learn and are assessed:
The workshops are practically focused, allowing you to continually discuss your work with tutors and your fellow professional delegates. While it is an intensive course, tutors and  specialist technicians are on hand to offer support throughout.

The course helps you develop the essential skills for on-line video journalism but you will also critically examine how they can be effectively deployed within your professional practice, both for your organisation and your readership.

You are required to produce a portfolio of work accompanied by critical examination of and proposals for the effective employment of on-line video in your professional practice.

Professional accreditation:
Teesside University is one of only 19 Skillset Media Academies in the UK. This 20 credit Masters level course is part of the innovative ‘Build Your Own MA’ project developed by Skillset for media professionals.

One-off highly subsidised price for North East based businesses:
The four day On-line Video Journalism course takes place in Teesside University’s Aurora House Media Centre on 4^th, 5th, 25^th and 26^th November. It is being subsidised by ECIF (Economic Challenge Investment Fund) funding and is therefore offered at an introductory price of £160.00 (usually £760.00) to North East based SME businesses, freelancers and sole traders. Please call for eligibility information.

Entry requirements:
This course is open to journalists and press officers with an undergraduate degree and significant professional experience, and to non-graduates with significant and relevant work experience who can demonstrate an ability to both complete and benefit from the course.
If you wish to apply for this course please contact Scott Watson to request an application form on 01642 738 527 or Email: samwfd@tees.ac.uk
For more information about the course itself, contact Course Leader Warren Harrison on: 01642 342 376 or Email: w.harrison@tees.ac.uk

Film Archive Technician (1 Post)

The Northern Region Film and Television Archive (NRFTA) was founded in 1998 as a consortium of four organisations which already held significant film collections. It contains over 36,000 hours of moving image material relating to the history, landscape and people of the North East Region of England.

For more information on these vacancies visit:  http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/jobs/jobs.cfm

Please see programme for full listing of films:

Monday 26th July

Saltburn Communit Theatre

Known to many for his extensive contributions to THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM “COLD MOUNTAIN”, multi-instrumentalist Tim has one of the most hair-raising voices in American music. He transforms American tradition with his northern roots sound, New England ballads and haunted originals. I met Tim in Middlesbro in the 90s when he was touring with his seminal band Cordelia’s Dad and I shot this video for them: click here to watch

for more info visit http://www.pancrack.tv/news.html 

IdeasTap, a creative network and funding body for emerging arts talent has announced that it is offering eight IdeasTap members £5,000 each to realise creative projects that either address green issues or are produced in an environmentally sustainable manner.

IdeasTap are looking for ideas that offer exciting new angles on climate change – or new ways to make art in an eco-friendly fashion. It doesn’t matter what medium you work in – from film to theatre, photography to visual arts, music to poetry – Ideas Fund Green is open to all creative disciplines. The key is innovation.  Applications can be submitted by individual Ideas Tap members or on behalf of groups of individuals work together. Pojects must take place between September 2010 and March 2011. 

The closing date for entries is 5pm on 9th August 2010….

You are invited to attend a tea party in the beautiful Beamish Hall Hotel to help raise money for breast cancer. Why not treat yourself with your friends and come along to indulge in an utterly English feast of sandwiches, fancies, tea cakes, scones and home made biscuits with lashings of tea!

Free demonstrations and treatments will be available from a range of companies looking forward to pampering you. Not to mention an array of companies exhibiting a large selection of gifts, beautiful products and all things fabulous for us ladies.

But it doesn’t end there as you’ll be able to feast your eyes on the latest fashions from John Lewis and local retailers as our models show off the Autumn/Winter collection.

Come and join us for an utterly indulgent day, put that out of office on and turn off the phone to help us raise money for breast cancer care.

Date: 7th September 2010
Time: 11.30 – 3pm
Location: Beamish Hall Hotel, Beamish, Stanley, County Durham DH9 0YB
Cost: Tickets are £35 and all proceeds got to breast cancer care. There is a saving for WIN members buy 3 and get the 4th free.
For more information and to book your ticket contact She’s Gott It on 0191 370 9559 or email lucy@shesgottit.com

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7.00pm – 9.00pm

Wednesday July 28th

BBC Big Screen, Centre Square, Middlesbrough

Due to the awful weather we got on 9th June Concept Film Night will be running a repeat screening of the films selected to be shown on the BBC Big Screen in Middlesbrough’s Centre Square.

There are some great films being shown, including dramas, documentaries, a silent comedy and animations. 

This is a FREE event and open to all to attend.  Bring along a picnic chair/blanket, food and soft drink refreshments and spend the evening watching some of the great work that is being produced by film makers from the North East area.

PLEASE NOTE ALCOHOL IS NOT PERMITTED IN THIS AREA

The PRS for Music Foundation has announced the launch of New Music 20×12 as part of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. PRS are looking for 20 brand new musical works, of outstanding creative excellence, each lasting 12 minutes. PRS have up to £10,000 available for each of the 20 commissions and each of these will be broadcast round the world on BBC Radio 3.  Open to composers, ensembles, festivals and music organisations that have a proven track record of being able to successfully promote, produce and host new commissions. The deadline for applications is the 1^st October 2010.

http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/newmusic20×12/index.htm

Grants to Help New, Innovative Visual Arts Projects (UK)

The Elephant Trust offers grants of up to £2,000 to artists and institutions (priority is given to small organisations and galleries) for new, innovative visual arts projects based in the UK. The next deadline for the submission of applications is 28th June 2010.

http://www.elephanttrust.org.uk/docs/intro.html

4iP Awards (UK)

UnLtd, the charity for social entrepreneurs has announced that it has teamed up with Channel 4 to launch of a new funding scheme (4iP) to help individuals turn their digital media projects into a reality. Grants of up to £5,000 are available to help individuals develop early stage digital media ideas and prototypes and to turn these prototypes into social businesses. There are two themes that 4iP is looking to support. These are; using the web and mobile to keep an eye on how government, organisations and elected representatives use their power; and exploring how digital tools, games, applications; and services can help people change their lives for the better whether that’s their health, wellbeing, finances, work/life balance or dealing with unemployment. To discuss your ideas and to obtain an application form please contact 0845 850 1122 or email mailto:4ip@unltd.org.uk .

Applications can be submitted at any time.

http://www.unltd.org.uk/template.php?ID=179&PageName=4ip