CLAIRE CLEMENTS - WILDLIFE PRODUCER AND CAMERA OPERATOR - GUEST SEMINAR - Monday 30th November 2020

Claire is an award winning natural history Producer and Camera Operator from New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.

Claire presented a guest seminar, live from South Australia, on Monday 30th November 2020 11 am (UK time). Claire talked through the process of making a wildlife film, from idea to the pitch, writing, pre production, production, post & delivery. Drawing on her work on Wild Cities. (For a recording from seminar please message Richard Edkins on Teams).

'Over the last 9 years I've specialised in honing my skills as a story teller and shooter. I usually take my projects from development all the way through to delivery. 

I am a versatile camera operator skilled at long lens, macro and night filming. I've filmed on extended shoots around the world in often challenging conditions. I often specialise in telling urban wildlife stories. 

I'm a passionate conservationist and have a background in Zoology and a Masters in Natural History Film Making. 

For my latest documentary I have spent 5 months tracking a  never before filmed primate in Asia. This will be the first time this species has ever been seen on TV. 

I believe at the heart of every good film is good story telling and I constantly strive to find the magic, the beauty and the quirky that is so often right in front of us...and bring this to life on screen.'

For more about Claire's work visit: http://poool.co.uk/claire-clements

ANDREW DAVIES - GUEST SEMINAR - Fully Charged - AUTOMOTIVE VIDEOS // MUSIC VIDEOS // CORPORATE VIDEOS

Andrew Davies is a graduate of BA Lens Based Media and FdA Film & Media Arts Production degrees at University Centre Weston.

Currently working as Camera Operator and Production assistant with Fully Charged as well as doing freelance work as Andrew Davies Media.

Andrew will be doing a guest seminar Friday 27th November 2020 1.30pm giving his advice from University as well as how to get work outside of University.

Please email richard.edkins@weston.ac.uk if you would like to join (if you haven’t already received invite and link via teams) and think of some questions to add to the conversation.

See more about Andrew’s work here.

DISTANT DIALOGUES - UK / CHINA Project

You are encouraged to get involved with this project ‘Connecting the people of China with artists from the UK and vice versa’

Bristol based musician, Kayla Painter, is one of the UK artists involved.

The Chinese musicians/ artists are asking uk residents to respond to their music/ brief.

Take a look at the briefs below, take a listen to the music and send your response. Nice open briefs and lots of room to be creative with them. Engages you with an international project and hopefully gives you a greater understanding of opportunities for artists, musicians, film makers…

TAKE PART IN DISTANT DIALOGUES

Here's an open invitation for anyone in the UK to submit their ideas and contribute to the Distant Dialogues project. Each artist is looking to hear your responses to their brief so they can incorporate them into their new work. How will you respond?

DANCE

'I want to understand, what is dance music to British people?' says GOOOOOSE. 'Or to put it another way, what kinds of sound make them feel like moving their bodies?'

You can submit anything that makes you feel like dancing. It could be a sound, a music video, short clip or ambient sound recorded on you phone, or even some text, an image, or a video. Find out more and submit your response.

WHAT IT IS FOR STARING?

To participate in the ‘What It Is For Staring?’ project, please submit a video of a subject keeping a fixed gaze on self-chosen object for between 20-30 seconds. Participants shall try their best to avoid eye contact with audiences (including the camera or any other devices employed for recording) and maintain such avoidance for no less than 20 seconds. The object they are staring at should not be a phone, computer or television and the video should not show the object the participant is staring at, only the person staring in their environment. Find out more and submit your response.

SEEING FLOWERS

To participate in the ‘Seeing Flowers’ project, please send different photos of indoor or outdoor flowers that capture your feelings at that moment. After collecting a set of photographs, Shii will compose a song out of her visual impression, and after this, she will rework the collected pictures and cooperate with a visual artist to make a 3D animation. Find out more and submit your response.

Control Shift Network (CSN)

Control Shift

2 - 18 Oct 2020 - Hybrid edition

An exciting new arts programme coming to Bristol this Autumn

Three weeks of workshops, discussions, installations and screenings - online and across Bristol, UK - exploring ways to reframe and rethink our relationships with technology.

The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between Watershed, UWE Bristol and University of Bristol. Control Shift Network is a collective of artists, technologists and producers. In 2019 they produced ‘You Make the Rules’ - a day of workshops followed by an algo-rave performance, which was part of Processing Community Day (a global celebration of ‘art, code and diversity’ initiated by the Processing Foundation). Control Shift has developed from this event and follows in the same ethos, with a focus on accessibility and diverse engagement.

In the talk below curators Becca Rose, Martha King, and Rod Dickinson will discuss core ideas behind the event.

Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements

Programme of short films, Online + also showing at the Arnolfini 10-11th Oct, 12-17:00

The ruins of history offer a host of unresolved traces that imagine the global south as a site of prehistoric technologies. This programme of short-films offers counter evidence to the assumption that technology is a western construction. The films address the politics of technology in Africa, affirming the continent as an active agent in the production of technology through indigenous practices.

Films will be online throughout the Control Shift programme, and also screened at Arnolfini on 10-11 October 12-5pm.

Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements (curated by Russel Hlongwane) assembles critical voices and cinematic expressions from Africa. These films present a broa...

Find out more about Control Shift, and how to get involved at https://www.control-shift.network/ Control Shift is funded by Arts Council England, Knowle West Media Centre, Institute of Coding, and University of the West of England. And supported by Watershed, Furtherfield, Aksioma, We the Curious, Bristol City Council, and Processing Community Day.

BFI London Film Festival 2020

From 7 to 18 October the BFI London Film Festival will be the first ever edition to be widely accessible wherever you are in the UK, with over 50 virtual premieres, free online events and cinema screenings across the land.

Find out more