Shared Creation Magazine

Coming next week  - on October 22nd and 23rd is the Power to the Pixel London Forum

It brings together a number of film makers who are working to change the way that film is financed, created, distributed and marketed. This is the place to go if you want ideas on working with film and Audio Visual Media in an interesting an innovative way.

This forum includes:

• workshop and information sessions
• meetings with the experts
• receptions
• cross-media project forum
• screenings
• think tank discussion group

Speakers for the forum are:

• YOMI AYENI, Creative Director, Expanding Universe
• MARK BOYD, Head of Creative Content, Bartle Bogle Hegarty
• PETER BUCKINGHAM, Head of Distribution & Exhibition, UK Film Council
• ANDRE BURGESS, Managing Director, Crucible Media
• MANUEL CRISTOBAL, Award-winning Producer, Perro Verde Films
• ARIN CRUMLEY, Award-winning Filmmaker
• CHRISTY DENA, Cross-media Specialist
• JAMIE DENHAM, Managing Director, Sliced Bread Animation
• ADAM ERLEBACHER, Co-Founder, PlaceVine
• BEN GRASS, Producer & Managing Director, Pure Grass Films
• MICHAEL GUBBINS, Editor, Screen International
• MATT HANSON, Film Futurist, Writer and Filmmaker
• ALEX JOHNSON, Digital Strategist and Experience Planner
• JAMIE KING, Filmmaker and Digital Rights Activist
• JON KINGSBURY, Director, Creative Economy Innovation Programme at NESTA
• ALEX KUMMERMAN, CEO, Clicmobile
• CARMEL LANDY, Managing Director, Expanding Universe
• FABIO LIMA, Founder and CEO, MovieMobz and Rain Networks
• INMACULADA MARTINEZ, Digital Media Strategist
• RICHARD MORRIS, Director of Video & TV, Player X
• BRIAN NEWMAN, President, Tribeca Film Institute
• SARA POLLACK, Manager Film & Animation, YouTube
  
• GREGOR PRYOR, Digital Media Legal Expert, Reed Smith
• EMILY RENSHAW-SMITH, Director, Viewer Created Content, Current TV,
• DANAE RINGELMANN, Co-Founder, IndieGoGo
• LIZ ROSENTHAL, Founder & Director, Power to the Pixel
• SLAVA RUBIN, Co-Founder, IndieGoGo
• M DOT STRANGE, Award-winning Filmmaker
• TIMO VUORENSOLA, Filmmaker and Internet Pioneer
• LANCE WEILER, Award-winning Filmmaker and Digital Innovator
• CAY WESNIGK, Founder, OnlineFilm
• SASKIA WILSON-BROWN, Head of Filmmaker Outreach, Current TV

To get more details - including the day by day programme, venue contact details visit:

http://powertothepixel.com/category/london-forum-2008/home

Not tested this yet but Open Office 3 is out (at least in RC4 form). You can take a look at the details here: http://www.office-soft.net/uk/

This looks like a serious update. I’ll try to cover it more in the future.

Why the interest?

Well authors need good word processors and Open Office has always been very competent. On top of which anyone running a large creative project at some point needs office software. Well here it is - and it costs nothing to use.

Open Office is worth being aware of.

Way back in the early days of Shared Creation I tracked the development of Adobe Lightroom, bought it as soon as it was out and became a great fan.

Now Light Room 2 is out. I’ve not played with the product myself yet - that’s not due to any lack of enthusiasm - just a reflection on a maturing in my Photo software use. My library of images is now so large I don’t want to mess around with pre-launch betas for safeties sake. 

Anyway all this is just a diversion. I’ve been looking at the specs on Lightroom 2 and its new features look like a major enhancement to Lightrooms ability to organise and enhance photos. It looks like an essential purchase or upgrade from where I am sitting.

So if you like Lightroom or are thinking about some high quality photograph workflow software take a look at Lightroom 2. I have a feeling you won’t be disappointed. For more details click here for the Adobe site.

Flickr - that favourite amongst photo-sharers has now launched its video sharing service. Allowing its users to show photography and video work side by side. In fact the video service contains a huge number of useful features that include tagging, geotagging and playing from thumbnail as well as from the full size player. Like YouTube Flickr also includes an API for embedding and using videos on other web sites.

With Flickr joining in with Video sharing the competition for the best places to show off and run your videos from is heating up. If you’re a video producer your options have certianly increased. Got to say I like the aspect of showing video and photos together using one clean and simple service

We’ve mentioned a few online photograph editing systems in the past but none with so venerable a name as this. Adobe has launched its much anticipated online version of Photoshop. I haven’t had a chance to study it in depth yet so - take this as an announcement. No doubt I’ll take a longer look in the near future.

In the meantime if you want to know more here is the website:

https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html