This is the notes from a workshop I facilitated at the beyondTV festival in Swansea
P2P TV a working mass media?
This workshop will be broken into 2 half’s the first half will deal with the practicalities and possibilities of online “broadcast” alt-media. The second on making such media folled by Q&A.
PART ONE
How to distribute your video to 200,000 people. Look at an example of a group already doing it:
http://www.welcometothescene.com/
http://www.junentertainment.com/
These are mainstream people intervening into subcultures so they can open them up to mainstream corporate products and services.
Look at the technologies involved and the resources available.
PART TWO:
One key to getting a video shown is to make video people like to watch, surprisingly considering the amount of effort people put in to making video few video makes have this as a high priority. The question is who are the ordnance? Some key things here are:
- story telling
- production values
- a subject that isn’t gazing at its navel, rather it is engaging and looking at the world as many people see it rather than a tiny minority, by doing this you can allow them the possibility to see different views.
* show the tutorial films in the CurrentTV sight to highlight good production values, discussion after each one.
Key technologies
Bit torrent
RSS
Broadband always on technology.
Key websites
http://participatoryculture.org/
More interesting stuff
Issues that were brought up during the workshop
copy left – creative commons
encoding for web and on disc
wikypedia – look at
inclusive and real outreach
DVD and ruffcuts
Hamish Campbell
www.undecurrents.org/hamish
