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The University of Southampton has recently launched a series of new study modules using promotional web videos produced by Zemedia. The new short courses are part of the University’s Curriculum Innovation Programme, which aim to encourage undergraduates to take a more holistic approach to their studies. For example, English, Engineering and Medical students will now be able to broaden their learning by studying Business Skills, Global Health, and Environmental Change.
One the the modules – Communicating Via Web-Based Maps – introduces students to ‘web mapping’. This new and exciting means of communication uses free datasets, and GIS (Geographic Information System) tools (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Google Earth) and provides anyone with a computer and access to the internet the facility to create and share meaningful maps.
Southampton University students started testing their revolutionary design for a human powered aircraft this week. They aim to get airborne later this summer and win the prestigious £100,000 Kremer prize. But before the students can start building their plane, they need to find out if they can provide enough power to get it into the air. Which was why they were in the University’s wind tunnel this week.
The plane will be built around a light-weight carbon fibre bike donated by Olympic gold medallist, Chris Boardman MBE. This is the first time a road bike has been used in a human powered aircraft, but academic supervisor Dr Alex Forrester – who will pilot the aircraft on its maiden flight – is confident the bike will deliver what’s needed on the day.
Zemedia were with Dr Forrester in the wind tunnel to capture footage for a podcast to be released in September. The video will also be provided to TV news channels.
Southampton’s rich and vibrant arts and heritage scene is the subject of a new series of short films that will be premiered at the Ejector Seat Festival this Saturday, 4 June.
Zemedia’s Tim O’Riordan has worked with students at the University of Southampton over the past few months to guide them through the making of short films focusing on the arts and heritage in Southampton. There’s a lot going on in the arts scene in the city, but we rarely get to see it on screen, and this was a great opportunity for students to link up with local people and develop their documentary film making skills.
The results are very impressive. The John Hansard Gallery’s recent Warhol exhibition, how the Titanic disaster affected the city, and creative goings-on at a local print workshop are just some of the subjects explored by the students.
The films will be premiered at the Ejector Seat Festival at Palmerston Park, Southampton, at 6pm on Saturday 4 June. Follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/southamptondocs.
We are just putting the finishing touches to authoring and encoding streaming content for a new DVD, produced for the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) by independent producer Peter Phillips. Peter provided Zemedia with the edit master tapes together with a background image and a design brief – and we did the rest. The 150 minute DVD – “Journey to Work” – shows a range of students and new graduates preparing for life after university and contains valuable advice from employers and careers advisors.
AGCAS is the professional association for higher education (HE) careers practitioners. “Journey to Work” is the latest in a series of DVD’s made to support and advised students and new graduates. The DVD will be distributed from March 2011 and is available now to pre-order . Besides ordering single copies of the DVD, AGCAS member services and HE organisations outside the UK and Ireland can also purchase a network streaming licence.
Contact AGCAS for purchasing and licensing details.
The National Institute for Health Research were running two large scale Research Workshops on Dementia at Central Hall, Westminster. They had two keynote speakers (Professor Dame Sally Davies and Paul Burstow, MP) who could both make the morning workshop – but delegates at the afternoon workshop needed to hear what they had to say. To facilitate this Zemedia filmed both keynote addresses, and burnt them to DVD so they were ready for the afternoon session.
A Masters student at the University of Southampton gets to grips with the ‘hot topic’ of NHS management in a new podcast post-produced by Zemedia for production partners, Eyewitness Productions. The podcast follows Adam as he works in operating theatres at Southampton General Hospital, finding out how to improve management processes to and make efficiency savings. We were tasked with putting togther a compelling podcast from HDV footage shot during the summer at the hospital. The client is delighted with the result.
We’re currently working with the National Institute for Health Research to produce a DVD to support their Health Technology Assessment programme. Zemedia ran a multi-camera shoot at a day-long training event at Chilworth Manor and have edited highlights from the presentations. We’re now working with the client to produce new content to place the presentations in context. The resulting DVD will be used to train lay members of medical research panels.
Zemedia has worked on a number of post production projects with Eye Witness Productions this year – most notably the Constructionarium Challenge. This short documentary shows two groups of students going head to head to build large scale replica’s of two of the worlds greatest civil engineering achievements – the Millau Bridge in France, and 30, St Mary Axe, London (aka The Gherkin). An inspirational film on a browser near you soon.
Anarcadia is a video projection and accompanying photo-series by artist Ruth Maclennan, shot among the desert expanses of Kazakhstan. Into this shifting, elemental landscape, Maclennan introduces two iconic characters: an archaeologist and a prospector; each of them methodically journeying across this apparently empty but symbolically charged terrain.
Stephen Foster in converstion with the artist, Ruth Maclennan. Produced by Zemedia for the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK.
We don’t just do video (2). Zemedia’s Tim O’Riordan has just completed an overhaul of Southampton City Council’s Community Safety website. In 30 days Tim produced a review of the site, redesigned the navigation, collected, edited and wrote the content – including news stories – sourced and edited the image content and created a new YouTube channel. Now called “Safer Southampton” the site can be seen at: www.southampton.gov.uk/living/safersouthampton.
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Zemedia has worked on a number of post production projects with 
We don’t just do video (2). Zemedia’s Tim O’Riordan has just completed an overhaul of Southampton City Council’s Community Safety website. In 30 days Tim produced a review of the site, redesigned the navigation, collected, edited and wrote the content – including news stories – sourced and edited the image content and created a new YouTube channel. Now called “Safer Southampton” the site can be seen at: www.southampton.gov.uk/living/safersouthampton.