FLAME Summer School trial Sample Clauses
FLAME Summer School trial. Urban Journalism In this chapter, we outline the activities of the participation of the VRT in the first FLAME summer school at Bristol UK, July 2018. In this summer school, VRT wants to explore new forms of journalism in this within the challenging context of the “Smart City Under Construction”. The future smart city is a city in transition to a more sustainable future. This city aims for a symbiotic life; wherein technology and social innovations empower each other. Therefore, this city gets the role of a social innovation platform. A platform that allows to explore new collaborations and construction of new relationships between researchers, citizens, entrepreneurs and the city council. In this context, VRT would like to explore the potential of new types of media, new types of formats, and new journalist practices. Participants are divided in teams of 3-6 persons. Each team will play out the life of a TV studio. The TV Studio has to produce a reportage about Bristol in its transitions towards a smart city. The studio investigates future city challenges and works out several speculative design ideas (design for debate) in the context of their selected challenge for a specific neighbourhood in the city. With these design ideas at hand (physical and digital prototypes) a crew will collect in situ feedback via e.g. street interviews. A director, local in the town centre in an emulated OBV (Outside Broadcast Van) or in a classroom at the summer school premises (Broadcast Centre), will assist and direct the crew remotely. Live interactions are captured and can be used in the final edit of the reportage. Each TV Studio reflects on the cost of their activities and the benefits of the used FLAME services. Each TV Studio also reflects on future services which FLAME could offer in the light of what has been experienced or in the light of future media practices. Two examples can be put forward to trigger the creative engineering process: “Smart Media File Transfer”, and “Virtual Life Stream (Smart) Director”. These services illustrate the potential benefits of the FLAME platform in order to improve current broadcast practices in the field in the area of cost reduction and creative support for creating new live event formats. Participants are asked to create a common statement, assembling their experiences and insights. Participants are invited to post their statement at the upcoming “Festival of the Future City October 2019, Bristol UK”. If more time is needed to ...