Month: November 2012

A film advent calendar? Get ready for Electric December

If you’re a little bored of the usual milk chocolate version, the Electric December film advent calendar from Watershed may be just the thing for you. Available from Saturday 1st December at www.electricdecember.org, we’ll be treated to a short film a day, from young film mikalers across the UK and Europe. Now in its fourteenth…

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! supports Malaria No More UK

You may have thought this year’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! was all about celebrities having it out with cockroaches and scorpions in the Australian jungle but did you know that 15p from every vote helps to save lives from malaria?  A preventable disease that claims the life of a child every single…

MirriAd – Digital Product Placement

This is a showreel produced by MirriAd, a digital product placement company based out of the UK which offers “a new way to reach audiences by digitally embedding brands into video content”. With product placement rules being liberalised in many countries, this is a significant opportunity for TV networks and film studios to monetise past…

Channel 4 Education tackles bullying with Hollyoaks

Viewers of Hollyoaks will be already be aware of the current storyline focussing on sixth form student Ester who is suffer bullying at the hands of her group of friends. When fellow student Dylan innocently decides to create a bespoke micro-blogging site, ‘DocYou’ to enter a filmmaking competition, the other sixth formers misuse it and…