BFI Media Conference 2016

Dionne Walker on The Hard Stop

The annual BFI Media Conference offered an exciting programme of presentations, panels and workshops to inspire and support teachers of film and media at 14+ and in FE/HE. It’s a uniquely valuable professional development opportunity, including everything from new teaching approaches and methods to be practiced right away, to rare insight into the work of the media industries across platforms.

Our line up for 30 June and 1 July included industry plenary speakers Billy Corbyn (Head of Creative & Content Strategy, Entertainment at Google) and Adrian Mills (General Manager, BBC North). Further industry speakers include Meg Jayanth (award-winning games writer 80 Days), Rachel Springett (Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Comedy), Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (Film Editor, Metro) and George Amponsah (Director, The Hard Stop). Teaching sessions cover areas including new ideas from Claire Pollard for finding resources, exploring film sound with Into Film, Tim Dams on using long form TV drama to investigate platforms and audiences, Rob Miller discussing identity in social networks and Rebecca Ellis’s fresh look at genre in New Horror.

Research sessions included Julian Sefton Green on ‘The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age’, Jonathan Hardy on ‘Content Marketing’, David Dunkley Gyimah on How Modern Audiences Interpret Factual and Sophie Mayer on ‘New Feminist Cinema’. Our intensive industry workshops were led by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies, Suite Française, Our Zoo) and line producer Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo (The Ones Below, Half of a Yellow Sun, Top Boy).

Read what our student observers made of the conference sessions they attended in recent posts on the BFI Education blog.

BFI Media Conference 2016 programme 7.69 MB

Many thanks to the speakers from the Teaching and Research strands who are able to share their presentations, uploaded in full by Fri 15 July.

Teaching

Language: Sound – Jennifer Johnston, Into Film 2.57 MB

Frances Ha & the US Indie Auteur Aesthetic - Maxine Crampton 3.13 MB

Project-based Learning in Media – Philip Dyas 317.09 KB

Identifying and Using Media Issues & Debates (1) - Steph Hendry 1.33 MB

Identifying and Using Media Issues & Debates (2) - Steph Hendry 1.04 MB

Long Form TV Drama: Platforms, Audiences & Breaking Bad - Tim Dams 2.03 MB

Representation and Identity on Social Media Networking Platforms - Rob Miller 1.24 MB

Resourcing the New Specifications - Claire Pollard 553.17 KB

Playing Text - Strategies for Teaching Games (2) – Barney Oram 202.06 KB

Research

Content Marketing: Media & Advertising Convergence - Jonathan Hardy 4.41 MB

Film Market Realities: The British Film Industry by Numbers - Alex Tosta 2.25 MB

Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema - Sophie Mayer 2.89 MB

Billy Corbyn

All enquiries regarding past conferences and the BFI Media Conference 2017 ( Thurs 29 and Fri 30 June):

mediaconference@bfi.org.uk
020 7815 1329

Past BFI Media Conferences

BFI Media Conference 2015

Read the full programme and download speakers’ notes and presentations from our 2015 conference.
BFI Media Conference 2014

Read the full programme, watch the conference sessions and access speakers’ notes and presentations from our 2014 conference.
BFI Media Conference 2013

Read the full programme, watch the plenary sessions and access speakers’ notes and presentations from our 2013 conference.
BFI Media Conference 2012: Creativity, Industry and Learning

This conference is a must for teachers of Media, Film and ICT from Key Stage 4, 16+ and in Higher Education.