licensing and social software

as many of you know, licensing is one of the largest issues to face any media creator. how can an independent media Creator acquire additional media to use for a production? music and images often come at a large price. Creative commons has been analyzing this issue and has some very interesting approaches. At this web site one can search and browse for media of various license types...some perfectly free to use. They also have licenses that are available for media creators to use...definitely worth checking out

http://creativecommons.org

there is a project at NYU...a kind of social software...that one can use to upload material. I have not tested the site but it may be worth a glance.

http://www.codeck.net/whatisthecodeck.php

to find out more about the social software concept...

http://www.corante.com/many/

out - matt

East End House

I recently took on a project collaborating with the East End House and Cambridge Community Television. The product will be a commercial for the East End House and additional skills training for youth who have previously worked with CCTV.

The East and House seeks to provide services to lower-income families and individuals of all ages and abilities. more information can be found here.

the kids that I will be working with participated in the summer media Institute at CCTV

IMovie

in our last class I discussed Imovie...if you are interested you can check out some tutorials that i have uncovered...

http://www.derry.k12.nh.us/teachers/techintegration/ilife/imovie/imovieorient.htm

http://www.bowdoin.edu/it/software/imovie/index.shtml

http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/index.shtml

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/11/imovie.html

I'm thinking about trying to find a machine to run some open source editing software...another project.

Fed up with the media?

The National Conference for Media Reform, to take place May 13-15 in St. Louis, will provide a forum to discuss and mobilize for solutions to the problems of our media.

http://www.freepress.net/conference

unfortunately, scholarship applications ended today...

this conference is being sponsored by FreePress - a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system.

been a while

I recently became a member of Somerville community access television so if anybody has questions about community access or what is going on in Cambridge or Somerville specifically, let me know.

I stumbled across some very interesting web sites that I wanted to pass along.

for those not afraid of the technical this is a very informative site:
http://www.iki.fi/znark/video/
especially the video conversion:
http://www.uwasa.fi/znark/video/conversion/

you should just know about this (thanks Celeste):
http://creativecommons.org/

media policy:
http://freepress.net/

-matt