visionOntv

The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media! 

Thanks to the large number of people (I can't even remember how many!) who made it up to Stoke Newington after the last-minute change of venue.  In the practical workshops we made 3 video news reports and 3 animated news reports - you were fantastic!

Anyone who is wanting to carry this on to the next level should email us - richard@visionon.tv or hamish@visionon.tv for details of the next session (in about 3-4 weeks from now)

May 2nd-3rd - new media gathering.

NEW LOCATION!  The 100 Flowers Cultural Centre, 2A Belgrade Road, Stoke Newington, N16 8DJ.

Sunday 3rd May - 10.30am  breakfast - for 11am prompt start.

HOW TO GET THERE

Hamish 07931165452, Richard 07894350478

From central London, it's best to get the bus (trains and tube are shut for engineering on Saturday) - 76 or 243 from Waterloo, 149 from London Bridge, or 67 from Aldgate all stop at Princess May Road on Stoke Newington High Street (the second stop after the Rio Cinema), or 73 from Victoria via Marble Arch stops at Stoke Newington High Street, and then 5-10 minutes walk south.

Call us with any problems or queries.  Email: richard@visionon.tv, hamish@visionon.tv

The imminent commercial collapse of mainstream media, and its replacement by PR-driven news, threatens the journalistic integrity and independence necessary for a free society. The next generation could be without the 4^th Estate. And new media has not yet realized its potential to fill this space.

Practicalities

This is a DIY gathering so come and make the most of it. We finalise the schedule Saturday morning.

Saturday all day - workshops from 10am.

- public film screening in the evening - this is an open screening - please bring anything you would like to show

Sunday breakfast 10.30 for 11am prompt start - till 5pm (then social time)

INTERESTING LINKS

End of Branding as core to our socierty

Good post from Fred Wilson about how brands are undermined by people2people networks and how these networks move into our pockets via mobile phones. The need for brands and the lowest denominator service they provide is vanishing. Music, News, TV and film, the digitalization of common goods is proving a far-reaching revolution in our society.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/yelping-my-way-through-la.html

http://twitter.com/themediaisdying

http://techdirt.com/

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/22/why-advertising-is-failing-on-the-internet/ 

Old media and new media need to gather together, sharing skills, resources and experience to create the media of the future.  

We invite: 

Geeks, web designers and programmers

Traditional media people

Alt-media people

Media students

DIY culture practitioners

Indymedia people

Documentary filmmakers

Print journalists

Radio journalists

Citizen journalists 

The conference will concentrate on the audio-visual side of media, with space for break-out groups for print, radio and web.  

The space: an eco-conference centre on an island in the Thames 25 mins by train from central London. http://ravensait.org.uk

We have a large hall, a cinema room, and 3 conference rooms. There is basic crash space for 40 people over the weekend. The conference will be run on an “un-conference” format, and will be funded by contributions for the space and meals over the weekend.  

The gathering is organised by visionOntv (http://visionon.tv) – an undercurrents project  (http://undercurrents.org) 

To book a place – please edit this wiki page. 

Participants:

1. HamishCampbell - http://hamishcampbell.com
2. Richard Hering - http://richardhering.com
3. James Norris - Nitro Mobile / Nitro Ventures
4. Dave Tinham
5. James Skinner hoboinaforest@hotmail.com
6. Pano Kroko
7. Jonathan Bahan - jonbahan@googlemail.com 
8. Neil Fairbrother - CEO pod3.tv  - neil@pod3.tv  http://pod3.tv - TV content for the home, office and pocket
9. Teresa Gomes - ducArte, ducarte@hotmail.co.uk 
10. T Troughton
11. Mara (Indymedia)
12. Marina Watson Pelaez (City University) wpmarina@hotmail.com
13. Shaun from Reel News (http://reelnews.co.uk) 
14. Frazer Kirkman
15. debbie outerglobe outerglobe@yahoo.co.uk
16. Olga Martinez olga.martinez@ntdtv.com
17. Ed Whyman edwhyman@gmail.com
18. d. Murphy, Undercurrents d@undercurrents.org
19. sally coffey sallycoffey@hotmail.com
20. mickfuz  - http://clearerchannel.org - http://transmission.cc
21. Dean Fankhauser (just sunday from CS)
22. Asia Wieloch
23. Tolga Ors  http://www.tolgaors.net - http://www.youtube.com/user/ourhumanrights
24. Raquel Cruz queucruz@hotmail.com
25. tombraider99
26. Will Golding - willwill_willwill@hotmail.com
27. Joanna Aniel Bidar  jabidar@gmail.com
28. Alex, WYCorp
29. Julianna Waithe julianna.waithe@btinternet.com
30. Ruth Heritage - Goldsmiths - ruth@newcontinental.net
31. Someone from Surrey Online  (hard to say who - no overnight stay
32. Sandokai (I can only make the Saturday unfortunately) bodhi_tree@riseup.net

To add ideas for the conference, contribute to the wiki or contact gathering@visionon.tv 

Please add Proposals for workshops

• User-friendly open source tools? - eg open source transcoding tool which is simple to use
• Practical video citizen’s journalism skills – make a 3 minute news/issue short in 4 hours (VOTV)
• The 6 things needed for open video to make social change (VOTV)
• Future of media in the digital age
• Using stills to make news reports in one hour without a camera (VOTV)
• Alternatives to youtube: a question of distribution
• Help! - creating help for website users, for video makers, for video distribution, for creating video distribution websites let's share the knowledge with appropriate ways of doing help files and print outs for workshops. Feck it! Let's write open source books on it! http://flossmanuals.net
• Funding, schmunding and getting bread to eat from online media (undercurrents)
• Creating a Video sharing site using Drupal. How to upload, transcode, import, export and best present your videos.
• Creating an open screeners database. Who do you contact when you want to do a tour of venues in UK or Europe. Bring your contacts and let's share.

• Networking London Video Activist (From experience people who go and film at a protest or other event do not necessarily have the time to edit the footage and vice versa. Setting up a network could allow people to cooperate on films, swap footage etc. This could also be the start for making a longer documentary about the G20, if there is enough interest.)

• Making the most of the psychological impact of your media

• www.mustart.org We put on interactive events that include everyone. Why not come to the next event or make your own.

• How not to do it * Why repetition works * Why repetition works * How to influence "the stupid" without comprimise on matters of greater good :-).

• Digital anarchism - Is the fight against internet regulation and copyright the most important activist issue?

• A free, open access, open source revolutionary daily newspaper!

• Role of syndication and search engine optimisation (VOTV)