{"id":3201,"date":"2015-06-12T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2015-06-08T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:26:01","slug":"edinburgh-international-film-festival-offers-students-insight-to-film-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2015\/06\/12\/edinburgh-international-film-festival-offers-students-insight-to-film-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh International Film Festival offers students insight to film industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Media Days<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Monday 22\u00a0&amp; Tuesday 23 June,\u00a09:30 &#8211; 15:30, Filmhouse \/ each day is \u00a36 per pupil, teachers free<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Deisgned for Media students these day long events offer new\u00a0feature and short films,\u00a0discussions with filmmakers, advertising creatives, the BBFC and Into Film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Media\u00a0Day 1 looks at the changing role of newspapers\u00a0with new documentary\u00a0The Newsroom &#8211; Off the Record\u00a0which\u00a0goes behind the scenes of Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, following\u00a0their struggle with dwindling circulation\u00a0and\u00a0their attempts to keep up with technology and social media.\u00a0Day 1 will also offer an\u00a0Into Film filmmaking workshop\u00a054321;\u00a0students\u00a0learn how to make a short film in under an hour using different camera shots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Media\u00a0Day\u00a02 will include\u00a0visually stunning new English language\u00a0feature Desert Dancer. Set during the volatile 2009 Iranian\u00a0election,\u00a0the film follows dancer Afshin Ghaffarian as he and his friends battle against oppressive\u00a0government\u00a0policies. The screening\u00a0will be followed by a Q&amp;A with\u00a0director Richard Raymond.\u00a0Day 2\u00a0also\u00a0includes\u00a0seminars with:\u00a0BBFC discussing film classification in the UK; and\u00a0The Leith Agency, the company behind advertisement campaigns for products such as Irn-Bru, will be discussing their work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Days Monday 22\u00a0&amp; Tuesday 23 June,\u00a09:30 &#8211; 15:30, Filmhouse \/ each day is \u00a36 per pupil, teachers free Deisgned for Media students these day long events offer new\u00a0feature and short films,\u00a0discussions with filmmakers, advertising creatives, the BBFC and Into Film.\u00a0 \u00a0 Media\u00a0Day 1 looks at the changing role of newspapers\u00a0with new documentary\u00a0The Newsroom &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2015\/06\/12\/edinburgh-international-film-festival-offers-students-insight-to-film-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edinburgh International Film Festival offers students insight to film industry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7468,54953,1030,504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-developing-the-young-workforce","category-languages-and-literacy-news","category-secondary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}