Sound and Moving Images from the British Library

 Sound and Vision Blog

You can do imaginative things with sound and moving images from the British Library Sounds website!  To get some inspiration, how about reading their blog?  They don't limit their ideas to the British Library resource, either. Here's the latest posting - suggesting a clever way of using Flickr.  Brilliant!

"Next up in our Inspired by Flickr series are two compositions from filmaker and sound artist Chris Lynn. The brief was to create a short sound piece inspired by one of the fabulous 1 million images released by the British Library last year onto Flickr Commons. The first image to catch Lynn's eye (and inspire his ears) was a 17th painting of Native Americans taken from William Strachey's 'Travels through Virginia'. The coloured engraving, entitled 'Their Sitting at Meate', called for a more faithful approach when creating the aural setting. Lynn wrote:
"I felt the Native American scene required just a simple field recording of waves gently breaking on the shore  [...] - See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sound-and-vision/index.html#sthash.OGH15Rzv.dpuf "

Learning On Screen Awards 2014

Learning On Screen Awards 2014
 
From the BUFVC website:-

"The Learning on Screen Awards are the only UK awards celebrating and rewarding excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research.

The Awards are open to broadcasters, production companies, education institutions, museums, publishers, charities, libraries, students and any other organisation or individual producing educational media.

Entries can be made into a variety of categories, including broadcast programmes, non-broadcast delivery, multimedia content and student productions. This year the award categories have been revised and updated to reflect the growing innovations in delivery methods and production... (Read on) 

The BUFVC is the British Universities Film and Video Council.

Get Creative - a BUFVC film course

Get Creative

Raising awareness of moving image & sound content in your institution

Friday 7 December 2012, 10am – 3pm
The Geological Society, Piccadilly, London

 

As advertised on the BUFVC (British Universities Film and Video Council ... 

 

• Do you promote the use of moving image and sound within your institution?
• Do you find it difficult to engage students and lecturers to use audiovisual content?
• Are your students concerned about how to reference audiovisual content in their work?

http://bufvc.ac.uk/events/getcreative

30 day trial to the BBC Motion Gallery

Looking for moving images in connection with your studies/ research? The Whittaker Library at RSAMD has set up a 30-day trial to the BBC Motion Gallery. (Click on the link to visit their home-page.) Highlights:-

• moving archive spanning 70 years from the BBC
• worldwide content and footage
• over 30,000 clips (250 added weekly).

As a higher education institution, RSAMD is eligible to subscribe.

We need to know if you would find it useful! RSAMD staff and students should contact Library staff (library@rsamd.ac.uk) for login details if you wish to access this trial.