{"id":189,"date":"2011-11-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2011\/11\/14\/award-winning-bbc-director-gives-lecture-to-multimedia-students\/"},"modified":"2011-11-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T01:00:00","slug":"award-winning-bbc-director-gives-lecture-to-multimedia-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/11\/14\/award-winning-bbc-director-gives-lecture-to-multimedia-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Award winning BBC director gives lecture to Multimedia students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Simon Gilchrist, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and series director of BBC\u2019s Great Ormond Street will deliver a guest lecture to students at the University of Kent on Tuesday 15th November.<br \/>\nSimon will discuss and show his films to the second year students who are studying the Digital Filmmaking module on the Multimedia Technology and Design course at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts. His lecture will concentrate on the importance of \u2018research\u2019 and striking the right relationship between the filmmaker and their contributors.<br \/>\nSimon began his career in the BBC\u2019s documentary department, where he worked across many productions before becoming a freelance filmmaker. Last year, he directed, shot and produced the sixty minute documentary for Panorama called \u2018Kids in Care\u2019 on BBC 1. The film focused on the work of Coventry Social Services and highlighted the growing number of children that have been taken into care since the Baby P scandal. He\u2019s currently finishing the critically acclaimed BBC 1 series, \u2018Great Ormond Street\u2019 which will return to our screens next April.<br \/>\nThe second year multimedia students undertake a \u2018digital filmmaking\u2019 course, which teaches them the skills and theory to make a short six minute documentary. Across two terms, the students will hear from a variety of industry practitioners who can give them an insight into the competitive world of documentary filmmaking. Honorary lecturer Jane Milton is delighted that Simon will be able to join the students. She added, \u201cit\u2019s important for them to hear from filmmakers who work on sensitive topics and manage to treat their contributors with respect and dignity. It\u2019s a very important aspect of filmmaking\u201d.<br \/>\nThe BSc in Multimedia Technology and Design gives students the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge in areas such as web-design, interactive applications and e-commerce, as well as a broad grounding in filmmaking, 3D modelling, special effects and compositing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Gilchrist, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and series director of BBC\u2019s Great Ormond Street will deliver a guest lecture to students at the University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/11\/14\/award-winning-bbc-director-gives-lecture-to-multimedia-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}