Author: sarah Haynes

A day with Ironbird

Posted by sarah Haynes on May 8, 2015 in Alumni, Engagement with Industry, Student Activity, Uncategorized |No Comments

Last week 12 media production students and I went on a fun day out with Rob and Alec of Ironbird:  iron-bird.co.uk , Liverpool–based aerial cinematography company that’s having a meteoric success since their start up 2 years ago.  The morning began with screened examples of their work ranging from air shots for a documentary in Kenya […]

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Winners of Royal Television Society Award 2015

Posted by sarah Haynes on February 12, 2015 in Uncategorized |No Comments

Last night at Media City two graduates of Media Production won a prestigious Royal Television Society Student Award in the factual category. Josie Webster and Ian Gardner produced One Eye Open a documentary about a partially sighted climber for their final production project last year – it can be seen here on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/album/2496885/video/92598171 Here’s […]

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Film Makers Club

Posted by sarah Haynes on February 6, 2015 in Student Activity, Uncategorized |No Comments

The Liverpool Screen School Film Makers club launched last week with a very well attended social event at the Hope and Anchor – next week there will be a meeting to announce a pitching process to get cross curricula film projects off the ground.

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MeCCSA Conference

Posted by sarah Haynes on February 6, 2015 in New Media, social media, Staff research, Uncategorized |No Comments

I recently attended the MeCCSA (Media, Communication, Cultural Studies Association) annual conference, this year held in Newcastle at the University of Northumbria. Many of the themes we discuss on the course were explored in papers ranging from children’s media, to digital culture and democracy, multi platform media to the future of public service broadcasting. Of […]

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Royal Television Society Awards nominations

Posted by sarah Haynes on December 16, 2014 in Documentary, Engagement with Industry, Student Success, Television |No Comments

We are very proud to announce that two films from last year’s graduates have just been nominated for RTS Student awards. Both short documentaries were made for the module Production Project, which leads students to pitch, develop and produce a media product. The nominated projects are One Eye Open, by Josie Webster and Ian Gardner […]

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