Communications, Media & Culture at Stirling

08/10/2022

Christopher Phin will be delivering a podcasting talk on Tuesday 11th October at 7pm. Join us in W1 or over Zoom 🎙

03/08/2022

CMC graduates, Kirsty Craib, Alice Williams, Danielle Hilton, Andrew Lockhart and Caitlin Campbell made Do I Have ADHD? in which reporter Kirsty Craib explores the issues around diagnosis of the condition in girls and young women, while also pursuing her own journey to discover if she has the condition.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0cl69k5/disclosure-shorts-do-i-have-adhd

BBC iPlayer - Disclosure - Shorts: Do I have ADHD?
Kirsty believes she has ADHD and has spent the last eight years trying to get assessed.
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03/08/2022

CMC graduates, Kim Drummond, Stan Stawowiak, Caroline Ring, Shoshannah Hull and Cameron Hutchinson made Is My Flat Safe? investigating the terrible conditions that some Edinburgh social housing residents experience with damp and mould, and calling Edinburgh City Council to account.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0cl6d14/disclosure-shorts-is-my-flat-safe

BBC iPlayer - Disclosure - Shorts: Is My Flat Safe?
Kim Drummond investigates the poor living conditions some tenants say are making them ill
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The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.

03/08/2022

Two teams of graduating Film and Media and Journalism students have made short documentary films for the BBC's Disclosure strand, in an unprecedented partnership between Stirling Uni and BBC Scotland The project combined master classes and training with developing and making investigative films. The production teams now leave university with BBC credits and a UK wide audience for their work - this was a unique opportunity, and we are very proud of the films they have made.

The full story is here:
https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2022/july-2022-news/student-films-get-debut-on-bbc-iplayer/

You can watch these films on iPlayer. More about them below

Kim Drummond, Stan Stawowiak, Caroline Ring, Shoshannah Hull and Cameron Hutchinson made Is My Flat Safe? investigating the terrible conditions that some Edinburgh social housing residents experience with damp and mould, and calling Edinburgh City Council to account.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0cl6d14/disclosure-shorts-is-my-flat-safe

Kirsty Craib, Alice Williams, Danielle Hilton, Andrew Lockhart and Caitlin Campbell made Do I Have ADHD? in which reporter Kirsty Craib explores the issues around diagnosis of the condition in girls and young women, while also pursuing her own journey to discover if she has the condition.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0cl69k5/disclosure-shorts-do-i-have-adhd

28/03/2022

'CMC Writing Retreat Come to the event with goals and work you’d like to progress on, it can be academic or personal.

07/12/2020

Some of you may know that we ran the Focus on Scotland Factual Television Festival in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
In 2018 and 2019 we organised the nationwide Perfect Pitch contest as part of the Festival, with support from BBC Scotland, who set a brief for students to propose and pitch an idea for a 30-minute documentary.
The competition was open to all practical production students in Scotland, and was judged by senior figures from the television industry. Shortlisted students pitched to a panel chaired by BBC Scotland's Louise Thornton.
Stirling students won the Perfect Pitch contest in both 2018, and 2019. Last year's winner was 4th year Film and Media student Niamh Cowling. The BBC liked the idea so much that it was commissioned as a TV documentary, Not Your Average Influencers. It is broadcast tonight at 10pm on BBC Scotland.
The film tackles important issues around gender and mental health, following a young Scottish couple with a big presence on social media who are facing major decisions in their lives.
You can see Not Your Average Influencers tonight on BBC Scotland. Stirling graduate Niamh was researcher on the documentary, which was produced by Stirling alumna Adele Spark. This is a fantastic achievement for Niamh and for Stirling.
Please watch if you can. There's a clip here:

An intimate look into the lives of Influencer couple Charlie Allan and Lauren Faulkner.

08/10/2019

Focus on Scotland is our festival of factual television which we will be hosting at the Macrobert Arts Centre, at the University of Stirling on the 21st October 2019.

Getting right to the heart of crucial issues for the Scottish production community, this one-day event will explore commissioning across a range of channels, the future of documentary, developing talent for the 21st century and growing production businesses in Scotland.

For professionals, the programme includes panel discussions and masterclasses featuring a range of leading commissioners and the indie community. For emerging talent, top industry professionals will run workshops on factual development developing documentary stories and location lighting. There will be the chance to pitch your content ideas to industry decision makers.

There are opportunities to network over lunch and a drinks reception in the evening, as well as the awards ceremony for our Focus on Factual short film competition. And it’s all free!

Confirmed panellists for 2019 include:

Jo Street, Head of Daytime and Head of Hub, Glasgow, Channel 4
Deborah Dunnett, Commissioning Editor Popular Factual, Channel 4​
Will Rowson, Commissioning Editor Factual, Channel 4
Hamish Fergusson, Commissioning Editor BBC
Beejal-Maya Patel, Commissioning Editor BBC
Adam Gee, Commissioning Editor, Little Dot Studios/Red Bull Media House
Jane Muirhead, Managing Director, Raise the Roof Productions
Seetha Kumar, CEO, Screenskills
Donna Taberer, Head of Talent, BBC
Nick Curwin, Chairman, Matisse Media
Craig Hunter, Creative Director Factual, STV Productions
Mark Downie, Creative Director, IWC Media
David Mortimer, Managing Director, STV Productions
Alan Clements, Managing Director, Two Rivers Media
Eloise King, Producer/Director and founder of Women on Docs
Nicole Kleeman, Managing Director, Firecrest Films
Louise Thornton, Commissioning Editor, Digital Social and Youth, BBC Scotland

We are also running a number of workshops and masterclasses, including:

Factual Development workshop with development guru Nicola Lees, a Lighting Masterclass with cinematographer Jonathan Harrison as well as a Documentary Storytelling Session with NFTS Head of Documentary Peter Dale​ and a Student Documentary Pitch Contest chaired by the BBC's Louise Thornton

Focus on Scotland is supported by Creative Scotland

Watch highlights of last year's Focus on Scotland below - we hope to welcome you on the day.

https://vimeo.com/298393625

Tickets are limited, so don't delay and book your ticket here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-scotland-2019-tickets-67741632045?aff=ebdssbdestsearch.

Highlights of the second Focus on Scotland Festival of Factual Television, held at the Macrobert Arts Centre University of Stirling on 22 October 2018.

01/10/2019

We are very proud that 2019 dissertation documentary Adam and the Alphas will be screened on the opening night of SQIFF at Glasgow's CCA on Wednesday. An excellent film with an important message. Give it a watch on Vimeo if you can't make it along https://vimeo.com/338702399

Made by students on the 2019 Documentary Production course at Stirling University.

20/09/2019

As part of CMC's Industry Insights series of media master classes, we are delighted to welcome radio producer Phil Reevell to the university on Wednesday October 2. He will talk about some of his recent work, including his series Everyday Americans and File on Four documentary which both covered the opioids crisis in the U.S.

Phil will also cover his series Trumped, which examined the presidency through discussion of Trump's tweets.

Phil Reevell has produced audio work on politics and culture for over 25 years, and has made many programmes for the World Service and Radio 4. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from a storyteller who is chronicling the cultural upheaval in the US and UK, and engage with some of the best factual audio work being produced in this country.

Phil's 90 minute masterclass will be in Pathfoot Lecture Theatre at 2pm on Wednesday 2 October

You can register through Eventbrite at:

Producer Phillip Reevell discusses his work for Radio 4 and the World Service, covering the Trump presidency and the US opioids crisis.

16/09/2019

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05/09/2019

We are so proud of the many success stories from our Masters in Factual TV.

If you would like to be part of this, applications are being accepted right now 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/2vZY0yF

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you our very first Master of TV: Eden Taylor and you can read about her experience on our blog https://cmc.wordpress.stir.ac.uk/2019/09/05/masters-of-television-eden-taylor/

03/09/2019

We are delighted that a group of Stirling alumni who went on to form a production company will have their 30 minute documentary The Bad Guy broadcast on the BBC Scotland channel tonight, September 3rd.

Cory Thomas, Laura Buchanan, Marco Di Gioa, Giulia Veronelli and Danny Flynn stuck together after making an award winning short film as their documentary dissertation. After a showcase of student work in Glasgow, they were approached by BBC execs who went on to commission a 30 minute broadcast version.

It's a fantastic achievement and we hope you can watch the film when it goes out tonight (3/9/19) on the BBC Scotland channel at 10.30pm. If not, please catch it on iPlayer:

One Scottish warrior's unlikely journey to be the nation's next MMA champion.