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News Archive 2007

December

Graduates Grace the Airwaves

Graduates Grace the Airwaves

Three graduates from The Media School are featuring on our local airwaves.

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BU joins Skillset Academy Elite

BU joins Skillset Academy Elite

BU joins the world's media elite following the launch of the Skilllset Media Academy Network.

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BU launches UK's first commercial radio archive

BU launches UK's first commercial radio archive

A unique online sound archive has been launched, featuring material from local commercial radio stations broadcast during the 1980s.

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BU Professor edits international journal

BU Professor edits international journal

Prof. Stephen Deutsch from The Media School is the editor of the newly-published The Soundtrack ...

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Graduate's Itch earns global recognition

Graduate's Itch earns global recognition

A BU animation graduate has taken top honours at a major UK film festival.

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November

Double win for BU students at Student Radio Awards

Double win for BU students at Student Radio Awards

Radio Production students win Gold and Silver at awards ceremony.

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Sony Delivers First HD Studio to BU

Sony delivers first HD Studio to BU

A groundbreaking agreement has brought the UK's first Sony HD media studio to our Talbot Campus.

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New Writers Circle in Bournemouth

New Writers' Circle in Bournemouth

The Media School at Bournemouth University and The Writers' Guild of Great Britain have collaborated to form a new Writer's Circle in Bournemouth.

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October

Sony Delivers First HD Studio to BU

Media School graduate directs Hollyoaks

As the opening credits roll on TV's 'Hollyoaks' this week, be on the lookout for the name of a BU graduate.

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Bournemouth’s bid to animate the Beijing National Opera

Bournemouth's bid to animate the Beijing National Opera

BU's renowned Media School has been awarded the opportunity to animate China's National Beijing Opera

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September

The Purbeck Film Festival

Secretary of State praises Bournemouth Screen Academy

Universities and Skills has praised the success of the Bournemouth Screen Academy.

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The Purbeck Film Festival

The Purbeck Film Festival 2007

The Purbeck Film Festival is the biggest and longest running rural film festival in the UK.

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NCCA Degree Show

NCCA Degree Show - October 2007

The National Centre for Computer Animation will be staging its annual postgraduate degree show for 2007.

August

New Approaches to 3D Algorithm Design

New Approaches to 3D Algorithm Design

A one-day, high-level briefing session on a new algebraic framework for unifying 3D algorithms in computer games

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July

New York Awards

Media School Professor wins at New-York Awards

Professor Sean Street has won a world award in New York

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south west screen

South West Screen is offering an industry-backed Post Graduate Bursary Fund

Three awards of £3,000 to be made.

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Indian Correspondents on Course at BU

Indian Correspondents on Course at BU

Ten broadcast journalists from across India will spend three months studying UK television journalism methods.

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Shrek

New Blood awards for Media School finalists

D&AD recognise BU Interactive Media Production students with New Blood awards.

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June

Shrek

Animation Draws BU Graduate into DreamWorks

BU graduate talks about his involvement in the latest episode of the Hollywood series Shrek the Third.

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Both Uni students by Climbing Wall

Students Turn in Peak Performance

Students respond to Alan Sugar-style challenge to complete Britain's gruelling Three Peaks Challenge.

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Thatcher

£90,000 grant for Thatcher research

BU to explore media reflection 'there’s no such thing as society'.

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Flordia Uni

Academic only European on US PR body

Dr Tom Watson has been appointed to the US-based Commission on Public Relations Measurement and Evaluation.

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May

RTS

Media School graduate wins national RTS award

BA (Hons) Television Production graduate Louise Palmer has won the National Student RTS award.

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NCTJ Logo

Multi-Media Journalism re-accredited by top Periodicals

BA (Hons) Multi-Media Journalism (BAMMJ) has been re-accredited by both BJTC and NCTJ.

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April

Double sucess

Double success at SIGGRAPH 2007

Computer-animated shorts by two BU graduates will feature at a major international event this summer

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Amec Logo

Media School academic to chair major PR awards judging panel

Dr Tom Watson will be leading the judging panel for the AMEC Communication Effectiveness Awards.

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March

Alan Patter

Double Scoop for The Media School at the Royal Television Society awards.

The Media School scored well at the Royal Television Society Southern Centre Awards 2007

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CIM Logo

CIM Re-accredit Marketing & PR Degrees

Confirming BU's outstanding reputation

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February

Major Funding Preserves Radio News Archive

Bournemouth Media School receives major funding to digitise and catalogue one ofthe most important radio news archive in the UK.

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Dave Burgess

Virgin Atlantic Guest Speaker

Paul Charles delivers the first annual Marketing Communications Lecture

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January

No 1 for animation

No.1 for animation in the UK

The National Centre for Computer Animation rated 1st by 3D World Magazine.

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Alan Patter

BU Screenwriting Degree Show

The Bridewell Theatre off Fleet Street played host to a full house

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