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  • BBC launches ‘Home Movie’ initiative in the UK

    BBC launches ‘Home Movie’ initiative in the UK

    MUMBAI: The BBC director of television Jana Bennett has announced the launch of Home Movie. The BBC claims that this is its biggest and most inclusive public participation event ever staged. It will give people in the UK the chance to make and star in their own television film.

    This is the first new project to come out of Jana Bennett’s 10m Think Big initiative. The aim is to encourage ambitious thinking and multi-faceted programme events that reach under served audiences. Home Movie is a pan-BBC collaboration across arts, drama , BBC Talent and BBCi.
    The beeb will search the UK for a cast and crew of 100. None of them will have worked in film or TV before. The aim is to offer people the chance to re-train in a totally different field of expertise.
    Meanwhile BBCi will host an online questionnaire to shortlist crew applicants, with interviews and auditions for cast and crew taking place in seven locations around the UK. All the 100 people chosen will benefit from a comprehensive training scheme, whilst a substantial outreach programme of master-classes and workshops will offer thousands of people advice and information aboutembarking on their own retraining programme.
    Once selected, the amateur cast and crew will make their own movie, led by a professional producer and director, under the guidance of a team of industry expert mentors. BBC Three will follow the trials and tribulations of the casting and interview process while BBC Two will go behind-the-scenes in a ten part documentary series following every step of the process with these first-time film-makers. The world premiere of the film will take place on the BBC and will include live link-ups around the country to special cinema screenings.

  • BBC goes ‘glocal’ with online news service

    BBC goes ‘glocal’ with online news service

    LONDON: Next time you log on the Beeb’s online news service, you will have access to content more relevant to the country of your origin.

    Using the same BBC News online material, international and UK users will now have the choice of separate news editions with agendas relevant to their needs. According to a company release, international visitors to the BBC’s news services on the web will be able to choose from a new publicly-funded World Edition at BBCNews.com from 23 July, a section that features news and analyses emphasising a global news agenda. 

    BBCNews.com also offer easier access to international coverage of sport, arts, science and technology, as well as the BBC World Service’s site which features text and audio in 43 languages, the release adds. The cost of providing a news agenda more relevant to international users is being met entirely from the BBC World Service’s grant-in-aid from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it says.

    Costs for the supply of BBC News to the BBC World Service are already met through grant-in-aid. Users in the UK meanwhile will be able to choose a UK edition through BBCi, including – as now – full world coverage, but giving greater prominence to UK stories and features at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news. The same news reporting will be available to all users – the difference being the way in which it is presented for each audience. 

    Both public service gateways will be free of advertising and give access to all the web content produced by the BBC. Users of the BBC News site (either from the UK or abroad) will be given the choice of direct access to their preferred edition – either international or UK and will be automatically directed there on subsequent visits.