Media Magazine Conference; 13.12.12♥

The conference we attended on Thursday at Logan Hall was beyond what I actually expected;those of you who didn't come missed out, even though we've been told to write our notes and feedback from what we thought of it, the actual presence of being there and experiencing it was completely different. Even though I had searched what was the schedule of the day a few days earlier, I was genuinely shocked by what we got told and the things we learnt.
Our first 'lecturer' was Professor Martin Barker, who was speaking mainly about Media Violence and how it affected many people. The four types of Intense Engagement were through, Cinema, Comic books, TV and Video Games. There was a successful campaign to ban the comic book which included The Mighty Shaggur as it had too much violence and sexual references.
The next speakers were very close friends from a very young age, Jolyon Rubinstein and Heydon Prowse who are extremely inspirational. We had a question and answer session with them about how the two got into the media industry and what they has been working on. We saw many different clips from there programme which is aired on BBC3, "The Revolution Will Be Televised" and I personally think that I learnt a lot out of the answers they had given us, mostly because they related more to out generation and frankly because they were hilarious! There programme includes events that are shown on the news and are in the public eye, but they show it from OUR point of view. I would defiantly recommend everybody watching it, as it is better than the usual crap we watch. They have also done a sketch called "Will you be my friend" which we also got to see.
CLIPS- 
Lynx (HILARIOUS)
Google Homeview (MUST SEE)
Can I be your friend? :")
Barclays Casino (EPIC)
Pete Fraser was another speaker, and was the one asking the questions to Jolyon and Heydon. His speech was VERY helpful as he is a former head of Media Studies and regularly contributes to Media Magazine. His 9 keywords for Media are; Research, Planning, Evidence, Ideas, Feedback, Logistics, Equipment  Production and Reflection. He has a very useful blog which will come in handy especially when we all start our production work.
BLOG; www.petesmediablog.blogspot.com 
for all you tweeters, i suggest you follow his TWITTER; @PetesMediaBlog
We were then introduced to 6 media students who were now working in the Industry in one way or another. This part of the conference was actually interesting, because from all the six different scenarios we learnt that to get into any part of the media industry, whether its behind the big screens or journalism, EXPERIENCE AND DEDICATION IS REQUIRED! 
We were then introduced to Dr Shakuntala Banaji who talked about Global Media and the poverty within the world (especially India). She told us about all of her visits, and how it was like to see young children without ANY technology, were some thought a camera was a hammer. She also said that in places like India, children as young as 3 were allowed into watching 18+ films,just because there parents wanted to go and see it.
Paul Lewis was someone else I found extremely interesting, he is a journalist for The Guardian, and he was talking about how social media has impacted the news and how breaking events are reported directly from twitter, facebook our youtube and how they quickly travel around the world. He helped my understanding on what journalists have to do, and how things like twitter can help them, but at times be a problem for them too. He was closely linked to the articles on the Riots last August, and was proudly the second highest retweeted account on tweets related to the riots.
for breaking news updates, follow- @PaulLewis 
And finally, the man I had been looking forward to ALL week, Corin Hardy, a music video producer for Ed Sheeran&Devlin, Biffy Clyro, The PRODIGY and many more. His work is absolutely amazing, like seriously! He has been directing and making films from a very young age, and is in love with horror, which is why we engaged with him more. From viewing his work we got more of an idea with what we could use in our Horror opening sequences. We saw the making of the 'Prodigy- Warriors' music video, which was stunning. It was mostly animated, and he used cigarette boxes and made them come to life.
Prodigy-Warriors
We then also got to see Devlin ft Ed Sheeran's full short film clip for Watchtower.

AMAZING DAY; Y'ALL WHO DIDN'T COME MISSED OUT BASICALLY.