MediaMagazine Conference for A Level Media Studies, London
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Date - 24 Jan 2025 (UK)
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Availability -
Fully booked
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Price - £25 per student
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Location - BFI, Southbank, London
Confirmed speakers at the MediaMagazine Conference:
- David Hesmondhalgh – Professor of Media Music and Culture on the Cultural Industries
David will be in conversation with Professor Anamik Saha talking about cultural products and the industry structures that made them. - Nida Manzoor – writer and director of Channel 4's We are Ladyparts and the feature film Polite Society (2023)
- Hannah Ewens – freelance writer and editor and author of Fangirls: scenes from modern music culture on The Evolution of Fandom, from Beatlemania to Chappell Roan
Hannah will talk about how fandom has evolved from screaming girls fainting at Beatles concerts in the 60s to Chappell Roan’s refusal to pose for selfies with fans. - Harv Frost – an up and coming filmmaker and director of several music videos including A Prelude to Ecstasy for the band The Last Dinner Party
Harv will screen a recent work followed by a Q&A and audience questions. - Chris Hogg – Research Fellow Royal Holloway at Royal Holloway
Chris will explore the magic and challenges of using AI in creative processes, asking big questions: What is the nature of AI make art? Is it just a tool, or does it change what it means to be creative? - Anamik Saha – Professor of Race and Media at the University of Leeds.
Anamik will be in conversation with Professor David Hesmondhalgh talking about cultural products and the industry structures that made them.
Full programme and timings to follow.
Getting to the Conference
Train/tube
- The BFI Southbank is a short walk from Charing Cross, Embankment, Waterloo and Southwark.
Bus
- Routes 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, 381, 507, 521, RV1
Access
- BFI Southbank has wheelchair access and fixed induction loops in all auditoria.
Claire Pollard
Claire Pollard is the advisory teacher for Media Studies at the English and Media Centre. She is the editor of MediaMagazine and the programme leader for the Goldsmiths Media and English PGCE working with trainees in schools all across London. Prior to working at the centre she taught English and Media Studies for 15 years in inner London schools, most of the time at Stepney All Saints in Tower Hamlets where she established Media as a new curriculum subject. She has been an examiner for GCSE English literature and a moderator for A Level Media Studies and has delivered CPD for OCR, the MEA and the BFI. Claire also contributed a chapter to Doing Text: Media After the Subject and she co-authored the second edition of Media Studies the Basics.
Christian Cottingham
Christian is Head of Media, Film and Politics at a secondary school in Crawley. A teacher for twenty years, he holds an MA in Multimedia Journalism and has also worked as an arts writer and in various roles for AQA and WJEC. He is committed to developing students’ media literacy and fascinated by the ongoing impact of new technologies.
Andrew McCallum
Andrew McCallum is Director of the English and Media Centre. Prior to that he ran a PGCE course in secondary English, and previously he taught for 15 years in London schools, spending most of that time at Acland Burghley School in Camden. He holds a doctorate in education, is author of Creativity and Learning in Secondary English (Routledge) and writes regularly for NATE's Teaching English magazine. If asked to name the EMC publication he's most proud of having worked on, it would be a three-way contest between Iridescent Adolescent, Diverse Shorts and Write On.
Anamik Saha
Professor Anamik Saha is a researcher of race and media with a particular focus on issues of ‘diversity’ in the creative and cultural industries at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Race and the Cultural Industries, Race, Culture and Media and more recently he co-authored The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto.
Harv Frost
Harv Frost is a filmmaker and creative who has most recently directed Prelude to Ecstasy: A Short Film – three interlinked music videos for the British indie rock band, The Last Dinner Party.Harv worked her way up, making videos for local bands, working as a runner, then PA to a music video producer and now she is a successful director and a great role model for young people wanting to break into the filmmaking industry. She has made narrative based dramas, sugar sweet pop videos, queer protest pieces, roller skating fashion ads, energetic performance videos, editorial fashion films, lo-fi VHS subculture pieces, epic conceptual concept pieces and even a stop motion animation.
Chris Hogg
Chris Hogg is a research Fellow Royal Holloway at Royal Holloway.
David Hesmondhalgh
David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media Music and Culture at the University of Leeds. David is a 'set theorist' for A Level Media Studies whose work explores the interplay between industry structures and developments, the cultural products it creates and our relationship to them. He is the author of many books including Why Music Matters, The Cultural Industries and Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries he is currently researching the Music culture in the age of streaming, focusing on how industry developments change our relationship to music and culture.
Nida Manzoor
Nida Manzoor is a writer and director of Channel 4's We are Ladyparts and the feature film Polite Society (2023).
Hannah Ewens
Hannah Ewens is author of Fangirls: scenes from modern music culture.Prices
- The fee is £25 per student, with one free teacher place as follows: 1-9 students = 1 free teacher place; 10-19 students = 2 free teacher places and so on.
- You will be automatically allocated the correct number of teacher places and will need to provide details for each teacher attending. (You can change the teachers attending, if necessary, when you tell us final numbers on 8th January.)
- For additional teachers, or teachers attending without students, for their own interest or CPD, the charge is £50 each.
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Deposit
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Cancellations and Amendments
- The 20% deposit on places booked is non-refundable. Please note: you will not be able to use the 20% deposit paid on cancelled places towards the final invoice.
- You can make amendments to your booking until the final numbers deadline – 5pm on Wednesday 8th January 2025. You will lose the 20% deposit paid on places cancelled by this deadline.
- If you paid the full fee by card, you will receive an 80% refund on places cancelled by the final numbers deadline.
- Schools who choose invoice payment will be invoiced for the balance of the total fee (80%) on confirmed places. Please note: you will not be able to use the 20% deposit paid on cancelled places towards this final invoice.
- After this date you will be charged 100% of the ticket price, regardless of the numbers of students you bring to the conference.
- We will email on 6th January to remind you to confirm your final numbers.
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Please note: We will be unable to make refunds in the case of weather, transport difficulties or circumstances beyond our control. Should EMC need to cancel the conference, a full refund will be on offer. (However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the conference which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.)
Waiting list
- We are no longer operating a waiting list for student conferences.
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