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Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Tempus MAHATMA in Tbilisi

Thanks to the Tempus MAHATMA project team for inviting me to address their Dissemination conference in Tbilisi last week on the IBUS (International Black Sea University) campus! I was responsible for an 'inter-project coaching session', describing the crossovers between Tempus ALIGN and Tempus MAHATMA. Feeling very envious of the MAHATMA participants - their 4 year Tempus project and their hard work is almost at an end, with great success - 8 MA programmes in Education Management up and running!


Tempus MAHATMA banner


Tempus MAHATMA Conference kickoff - discussions on their Journal


Tempus MAHATMA banner


DQ does 'inter project coaching'


DQ does 'inter project coaching'


Group shot


Waiting for the bus - IBUS campus


George and Cristianu - IBUS campus


Gabridze's Puppet Theatre Clocktower - Tbilisi 


Tbilisi Centre

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

NCPA and Tempus ALIGN Dissemination Conference - Moskva

Arrived back on Sunday from the First Dissemination Tempus Conference in Moscow, November 13-14, organised by Anna Tarasova's NCPA team. The conference 'gathered the widest possible expert, academic, professional and student communities from Russia, Armenia, Ukraine and EU countries: Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Poland. There were over 160 participants (64 of them were ALIGN project partners).

The conference lasted for two days and was hosted in Moscow State Pedagogical University. The first day presentations dealt with issues around the main conference theme ‘Enhancing the quality and relevance of students’ learning experience’. Tempus ALIGN held a 'coordination' meeting in the afternoon.

On the second day, participants split into three working sessions:

1.      Writing and Using Good Learning Outcomes for Quality Progression of Students
2.      Tools and Mechanisms for Assessing Students’ Leaning Outcomes
3.      Achieving Excellence in Higher Education through Quality Assurance

Bath Spa's Paul Hyland and Inna Pomorina gave an excellent and inspirational closing workshop on 'Student Centred Learning'. Thanks to all!



Conference Opening Address


Conference Room


ALIGN coordination meeting


ALIGN coordination meeting room


NCPA conference - DQ with Ukrainian students and Liza Sozinova


Moskva - metro map


Moskva - traffic


Moskva - climb to Red Square


Moskva - Lenin Mausoleum


Moskva - Gum Department Store


Moskva - Red Square


Moskva Conference NCPA webpage



Moskva - Shermetyovo - ice on wing











Monday, 27 April 2015

Cartoon Springboard - Pitching Event for New Animation Talents!

Nicola Lennon has asked us to pass on this information about a new scheme from Cartoon, designed as a bridge between animation education and the supports provided by the Cartoon organisation. Designed for final year animation students and recent graduates, Cartoon Springboard is looking for TV Specials, TV series, feature films and cross-media projects. Deadline is 7th September 2015! Some successful projects will be chosen for presentation at Cartoon Forum, Cartoon Movie or Cartoon 360. Exciting!

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Cartoon Springboard - 17-19 November - Halle

cartoon springboard: new pitching event aimed at new talents
Cartoon Springboard
We are pleased to inform you about a new event aimed at New Talents: CARTOON SPRINGBOARD taking place from 17-19 November 2015 in Halle (Germany).

During these 3 days, final year students, or those who have graduated within the last 3 years, will pitch their animation projects in front of a panel of experts (distributors, broadcasters, renowned producers, young producers, digital experts, …) who will advise them on how to improve their project and accelerate their access to the audiovisual and digital markets. In addition, some projects will be chosen for presentation at the Cartoon Forum (TV series), Cartoon Movie (feature films) or Cartoon 360 (cross-media projects).

Could we kindly ask you to transfer this e-mail to everyone you know who fits the requirements. Encourage them to submit their projects before 7th September 2015 via the online form on our website. They can create an account on the page My Cartoon and click on My Projects > Cartoon Springboard > Submit a new project.
All practical information on this event can be found in the Toolbox. The projects can be: TV specials, TV series, feature films, cross-media projects. Please note that short films are NOT accepted.

For any questions you may have, you can reach me by phone (Office: +49 30 80 58 25 86 or
Mobile: + 49 174 906 68 34) and e-mail (agnes.bizzaro@cartoon-media.eu).

We are excited about this new event and hope you will help us make it a big success!

Best regards,

Agnès Bizzaro
Cartoon Springboard Coordinator



Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Halle - Day 2 Session 1 - Mike Riemenschneider

HALLE DAY 2

session 1 Mike Riemenschneider (IAMA - DE)

Presentation of the Animation Talent Award

i won't bother you with the funding issues we had..
International Academy - non prof founded in 2004

we produced a lot of student films
started with 9 months and then cut that to 3 months - they had to be v precise

we have individuals, companies
the question was how can we attract people, attract students
how do we stay alive in the market?

can we do it alone? or do we need partners?

tried to find a niche - the idea was to create a festival but there are tonnes of festivals (260 animation festivals) in the world...
how can we find a niche...

maybe do something with music??

not starting with animation, but start with the music...

a web-based short film competition, where you can earn your production budget to turn your ideas into an animation film
warner set some conditions - streaming yes, download no...

design guideline - 
transfer concept into web and digital media
how can we bring everything together?
licencing?


a few people were totally happy to give us music from their new albums...
but the lawyers were a little more difficult...

alan doherty plays the flute - he's from ireland but he lives in Halle - i met him by chance...

pitch video from students who're proposing their projects...
top 10 projects
pitching mode
then they communicate and find additional budget (through crowdfunding pledges)
building up a crowd and then find money
an ongoing process... (still live)

click to support the projects you like...
having found that you can buy 1000 facebook fans for 360 euros, we decided not to rely on facebook

through google analytics - we could see that we were being watched in 90 countries
LinkedIn a great thing to do..

how it's going right now?
they're in the middle of producing the top 10 videos
they needed to get 100% of the money before 20th October - if they're missing 5%, they get nothing (standard crowdfunding)

E2,500 euros is the main prize from ARTE

ARTE is the most important partner
a link with Adobe - unlimited licence of CrativeCloud for 1 year for 3 projects

voting
sharing
like
production
donate
support

we want to establish ourselves as a partner for the animation schools
we were asked if we can licence ATA for India - but I don't know if it's a real offer...

we have projects from
bristol
portugal
belgium
phillipines/indonesia
poland etc etc


www.startnext.de - crowdfunding platform
www.animationtalentaward.com

end of Mike's presentation


were you genuinely surprised by the worldwide interest?
definitely...
also we're talking to samsung, canon

we will then support the finished films
the rights belong to the people who make the movie
but we can use the films for non-commercial projects

normally we'd be finished production, but that was postponed because of the flooding in Halle!

it will happen again next year - if you all help us, we will succeed!


Brainstorming in Halle!

GREAT brainstorming session to finish Day 1 of the ETNA conference in Halle! Topics included 'Student Project Management' and 'funding models'. Strong possibility that we'll establish a rotating presidency for ETNA - to impel our collaborations forward! A pan-European postgraduate animation flexible pathway beckons!

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Dublin Castle - 20th June 2013

Still catching up on blogposts! On 20th June, IADT were asked to provide some students for the 2013 Digital Agenda Assembly. DL041 Animation's Emily Lynch did a realtime visualisation for Lord Putnam's Digital Ambassador speech. Well done Emily! Thanks also to Fiachra and Marcel for their participation.

here's part of Emily's visualisation with European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Minister Pat Rabbitte, Matt Cooper and Lord Putnam


here's Emily at work in Dublin Castle


and Emily's final visualisation...