The Skillset VFX and Animation Showcase on the 14th July attracted over 300 quests, many from the UK’s animation and VFX companies, to view talent from Skillset’s seven great accredited courses, and a number of guest courses from our media academies. . . . → Read More: Bringing the talent to Soho….the VFX and Animation Showcase
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What do Willy Wonka, Lamborghinis and nearly 400 freelancers have in common? Fast Train!
The television side of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is really the crucial part – the massive amount of revunue generated from rights, advertising and related media are what keeps the whole circus going. In the past the IOC have set up a joint venture with the host city to form the “host broadcast company”. This company is responsible for all of the images, sound, graphics, on-screen info, etc, from all of the sport. The then sell this feed to all of the rights holding broadcasters. Today, this is a stand-alone company – the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS). As you can imagine, the scale is vast. 6500 “games-time” staff. 1000 cameras. 62 OB trucks. 5000 hours of content. 200 broadcast countries. And amidst the “largest production company in the world” is a training programme for broadcast students. Continue reading The Olympic Broadcasting Services “Broadcast Training Programme” for 2012 Last night, key figures in the education, skills and business world of creative media gathered in a Soho basement to wish Mandy Berry well in whatever she does next. Mandy Berry has ran 01zero-one for the last five years. It is a fantastic resource for the UK creative media industry – a sector-specific training space, deep in . . . → Read More: Farewell and Thanks to Mandy Berry – a key part of the creative media industries We at Skillset are embarking on a journey of discovery around leadership and management skills in the creative media industry. There is a strong-held belief that this area isn’t up to scratch in our sector. Maybe because we are made up of “creatives”, maybe because the business model is different, maybe because we have very little professionalisation going on – I don’t know why, but this I do know (or at least I think I do!): Continue reading Leadership and Management skills in the creative media industry We’re back! Sorry for the downtime recently – it’s been a bit of a struggle migrating this onto our own servers -but now, like the great British summer, we’re back and we’re here to stay! And we’ve got a new look – to go with the new Skillset logo. We are always interested in what works for you here . . . → Read More: In with the summer sun It’s often easy to think of the Skills Agenda as being about the dynamics of the education sector needing to be primed and adjusted to supply relevant and up to date skills. |
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Last week saw me at Canary Wharf getting an overview with a group of invited guests regarding the plans for the London iteration of an Olympic TV tradition – a broadcast training programmebased on the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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