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visionOntv at Adhocracy Festival this weekend

visionOntv will be running our multi-camera pop-up studio show at the Adhocracy festival on 6/7 August. Expect fun and informal interviews about DIY culture, creative thought and activities! If you can attend the festival, come and meet us to have a chat about DIY media and how to get involved in creating a new media landscape. On the day, watch our coverage on the studio show page and follow the hashtag #adhocracy.

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#hackthemedia launched!

Report-back from the 1st Hack the Media session

Monday 25 July:

Participants made a series of video reports with the tools in their pockets (see below)

NEXT SESSION: Monday 8 August 6.30pm

SPY-TOOLS: the world of spy gadgets, remote controlled helicopter camera drones, pen cameras etc. with an overview of the legal issues.

London Hackspace,

Units 23/24, Cremer St Business Centre,

37 Cremer Street, Shoreditch, LONDON E2 8HD

Get directions

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Sparking a twitter torrent

A normal day in Dalston, London. The visionOntv crew are slaving away over their laptops, as usual, on a Sunday morning, when I notice a very angry tweet from Jeff Jarvis, a professor of journalism in New York. Clicking on the hashtag I discover a torrent of impassioned truth-telling, of rude and direct passionate truth-telling, because the tag, which is "#FuckYouWashington", is the portal to a deluge of public fury.

Why Video Training Has Failed

Richard Hering fesses up to a misspent youth, teaching documentary-making to beginners, and argues how we could really train up a world of citizen reporters........

Let me make a confession. I have been training people to make videos for 25 years, and most of this training has been a total waste of time.

There. I said it.

Outside of the hothouse of the weekend or evening class, my students have been, with the exception of a few phenomenally talented and dedicated ones, completely unable to make another film....