Media Magazine Conference

How to be creative - 7 Tips from the frontline
Tim Clague

O Volunteer
O Circles - Creativity
O Beachcombing
O No-one comes from nothing
O put everything into everything (but life is not a meritocracy)
O Don't want to be invited to the dance - but beware the doppler effect)
O The day after you finish what do you do?
     Keep Making stuff

www.timclague.com

An Interview with Chucklefish Games
Rosie Ball

Creating worlds and stories
Ask For it
Competitions - Festivals
Target audiences - appeal

Structure
Community appeal - blogs - social media - streams
3rd parties - march - sponsors.

Sports Journalism
Leon Mann

O Doing things differently
O Volunteering
O Asking (out of your comfort zone)
O Trial and error.

Freelance jobs

Journalism
Seek New information
Be prepared
Believe in yourself
Be yourself

Lack of diversity - particularly in sports journalism
Position and perspective similar
Limits perspective for storytelling

BCOMS
O Black collective media in sports
O Networking, mentoring, lobbying, support network

D Word Conference
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Influencing the decision makers.

Value Diversity
Challenge Respectfully
Stay True to your own values

Young Filmmakers' Panel

Film Festivals
Experimental
BFI Futures
Applying and Volunteering

Portfolios and Practice

High Standards - but not a complete perfectionist
Push Yourself
Failure and learning from your mistakes
Make the Film - Just Do It

Young People, Media and Democracy
Dr Shakuntala Banaji


Crisis of participation
Democratic Deficit    - Youth Disengaged? Apathetic?

British and EU sociopolitical context
Increasing control of all media by a few corporations linked to particular political interests.
Television is still the NO1 source of News.

'Economic crisis', Vicious spending cuts.
Social, Cultural economic and institutional racism.

Fragmentation - gap between the rich and the poor.

Media to do democracy
- to the extent that it is acceptable to the current system.

Campaigns
Young people prefer face to face contact

Sites of political socialisation
Family, media and school/college

Communicative style is very important for political learning

Family + School non tolerant of divergent viewpoints
Households who encourage wide views - more democratic citizens.

Youth Engagement

Jobs
Media Stereotyping
Children/Gender rights
Social Discrimination
War
Racism
Sexuality

Youth Voice
Are the youth equally included as citizens

Exclusions:
Socia-economically deprived
Learning difficulties
Caring responsibilities
those who are 'too hard to reach'

Media in Democracy
Build young people's identities
Media gives voice
inform
build trust

Misinformation
Fake News

Media Representations of youth

Uniformly Negative 80% of 3000 17-26

Crime 
Radicalisation
Exclusions

The internet is great for people who already have networks

Information Neglects many groups
doesn't teach how to protest
Young people still get news form tv
only 20% online

Digital/skills divide
Unfiltered access is a minority
2012-13-14
20%-30% never went online.

Traditional media are still big tools

political ideas come from mainstream news

'bumper figure' political messages travels faster e.g. Make America Great Again
Lack of space and time for art in timetable

Managed participation
people in authority when challenged don't what people to participate.

Citizen Duty
Low Trust in Govt
Refusal to vote
neither democratic or undemocratic

Alternative media

Do the government want critical citizens or good little citizens

An Audience with Tony Garnett

Social + political issues
Personal Issues - Mother + Illegal Abortions

BUS General strike - 1926
Money - Work

Not being resolved
Today - Amazon warehouse workers instead of Coal Mines

People tried to make him stop - political
Headlines create a narrative in news - same done in his films

fact vs future
measure spin
Subconscious
beliefs are so embedded

We can't help bias
it is even applied to the BBC
Choosing news schedule , stories and spin

Ratings does not equal news

Conscious + UnConscious news
various things are news to people - its not the same

BE SKEPTICAL

invites you to take sides
news isn't objective/factual

same as filmmakers we can't do anything about

Humans live for stories, we centre ourselves through narrative

We make stories around the facts

Digital revolution

'Overturning the definition of news'
Twitter + platforms
Post Truth Society

'The internet is full of trumps'
People and their own truths
we need facts and their primary sources

cultural climate pends on political and economic climate.

BBC has been marketised  ( it has manegeitites)

No creative risks = no creative freedom/breathing space.

We need to separate creativity from craft

Trojan Horse Drama
Media has democratised

Our imagination is disciplined and discouraged whilst growing up

ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR CREATIVITY