FUTURE STORYTELLING

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Every profession lives and breaths by its codes: words, mannerisms and discourses that bind those inside and alienate others. If you fall in...

At the inception of TV, the wise counsel of film decided they needed something that would differentiate them from the new pretender so they ...

The quake could be felt around the media and far beyond. Andrew Marr, an astute BBC Political commentator cum journalist had asked the quest...

There are rarely new phenomenon. When they do occur some call it miracles or that a whole set of parameters have cataclysmically usurped t...

This is Yeoville. It deserves a film in itself for there was no other place like it in the South Africa I knew. At one point a good friend w...

The BBC's resources allow for it, but even then their division of labour means the doc feature is undertaken by a team of specialists. ...

I'm in the middle of producing a short from South Africa, returning to the place I lived and worked as a freelancer for the BBC WS, and ...

Nigeria's Information minister wants an apology. Sony has been told to the cut the offensive scenes and meanwhile the film continues to ...

Extract from Video Story telling and VideoJournalism ( published next year by a US publisher) As stories go, a hospital closure, this wasn...

There was no marketeer coyly hanging around the lounge. Just as well because the invective could have been one of those that questioned the ...

I am in joburg. I'm rushing. A day's stop over before the UK, but it's been richly rewarded meeting up with Palesa, an old frien...

On a sunny day, nothing to write home about in weather terms on the African continent, in South Africa two state broadcasters shared a commo...

Travelling and lecturing in videojournalism further strengthens my already robust resolve that the tools and media skills for reportage, imp...

Arriving at O. R. Tambo International Airport, Upgrade. Two thirty pm. From door to door , 23 hours. In the air it was about 14 hours. You h...

I'll write more about the process but hopefully the vid gives an idea of how I went about getting students to creatively collaborate usi...

They're Chinese students on a three week course in London and they're not very  different from most undergraduates I have encountere...

Listening to talks has the effect of resurrecting old fermented and often forgotten ideas. Sometimes it orientates us towards new ones . Jef...

Rachmaninov concerto No 2 - got there. I'd tried all the other stations, but this time even a tight bit of soul, Bill Withers wasn't...

I interviewed one of the UK's respected senior broadcast executives today. Dorothy Bryne is the head of news and current affairs at Chan...