YouTube NextUp scheme to back UK digital talent #webseries

YouTube is to invest €500,000 (£441,000) in a scheme to support UK digital talent.

The YouTube NextUp fund will allow up to 25 people to win a €20,000 grant to develop their content on the video-sharing website, as well as a place at a "creator camp" that will give training in production techniques.

To apply, creators must be YouTube partners – content producers who earn revenue through their accounts. YouTube said they could include singers, dancers, actors, producers, musicians or makeup artists who create their own video content.

This was via Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/14/youtube-nextup-scheme-uk-digital-talent


But... in all the news articles about this launch, am I being dim?

I can't find the official link to sign up or find out more...

The only youtube nextup links I've found are for the program in the states?

http://www.youtube.com/creators


Anyway, here's what it seems to be about.

Becoming YouTube Stars Event - London 2011




Learn how to become a YouTube star




NextUp for European Youtube Partners (ENGLISH)




BECOMING YOUTUBE STARS ROADSHOW!! (YTO 118/365) 04/08/11



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Writing for Multiplatform - Cardiff, Wales Thursday 15th April 2010

In Wales, or the UK?

On Thursday?


FROM CYFLE:-

An unique event to Wales which will be an opportunity to increase awareness of the effects of multiplatform developments on the media’s creative and commissioning processes.

"The Multiplatform Symposium 2010 is an event for those who want to be leading the pack in the competitive, ever-changing world of content production in the 21st century" Iona Williams, Chief Executive of CYFLE

A chance to –
•Interact with forward-thinking individuals
•Listen to and interact with speakers of the highest calibre
•Develop ideas, make contacts, and be inspired
•Expand your understanding of the changing multi-platfform world

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RTE STORYLAND - Online Drama contest entries for 2010

Based in Ireland?



From RTE.ie:-

Would you like to make a web drama series for StoryLand 2?
Closing date is midnight on 1 November 2009.

- A very good idea to appeal to 18+ web audience
- A producer, director and writer attached to the project
- Scripts of the 1st and 2nd episodes
- 200 word synopsis of the rest of the series
- Budget that does not exceed €8,000 per episode
- A marketing plan
- 30” pitch of you or your project on DVD

MORE HERE:-
http://www.rte.ie/storyland/index.html


RTE STORYLAND INFORMATION NIGHT VIDEOS HERE:-



http://www.rte.ie/storyland/finalists/info_evening.html


RTE STORYLAND APPLICATION FORM HERE:
http://www.rte.ie/storyland/rte_storyland2_submission_form.doc



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Web Event - I Want Your Kisses - Lana's Kiss Line

N.B. all of this is 0800 GMT (9am British Summer Time)-- 4am E.T. -- Midnight P.T.








Lana's Kiss Line

www.oneoffkisses.com and www.perenoworld.com proudly present Lana Citron on Antony Gormley's One&Other Plinth in Trafalgar Square on the 9th August at 9 AM (8AM GMT). The Kiss Line - 07748171426

On August 9th, 9am (B.S.T.)
I’ll be ascending the Plinth and seek willing lips to form kisses
- so I might blow them away.

Call or text me on the following number : +44 7748 171426
and leave; kiss requests, dedications to loved ones, indeed whatever your heart desires and I will do my utmost to spread some love from way on high.

Lana Citron will be participating in Antony Gormley’s One&Other Plinth project in Trafalgar Square, London on the 9th August at 9 AM. (0800 GMT/UTC)

SHOW HOME SITE HERE:-
http://www.oneoffkisses.com

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WE GOT A SEGWAY. WE GOT A STEADICAM. Let nature take its course.

This is such a tenuous link to web series production, but thought you'd like it.

If only on the grounds of "mad camera technique tip".

Big thanks to Dembroriffic!:-

It should be said that those of us in the Film/TV industry pride ourselves in figuring out the magic and trickery behind technically amazing shots such as this one - so I gave it a watch (skip to 2:39 and watch for the long continuous take):

MORE HERE:-
http://blog.dembro.org/2009/05/19/in-belarus-camera-moves-you/



Or here, isolated, is the breathtaking 27 second single shot from the Belarus entry for Eurovision Song Contest 2009 (Petr Elfimov, "Eyes That Never Lie", since you ask)


(it takes 10 seconds or more to load - to pop out in another window try this:)
http://splicd.com/8FoLR-So1no/153/194


Actually it's not that breathtaking - this is breathtaking.

HERE'S HOW THEY DID IT.



GO SEGWAY! GO SEGWAY! (and man running alongside you - is he pulling focus?)

So, yeah, - if you want a different dolly, get a handle-less Segway. Crash it into the stage and keep running.

And while we're in the mood, this is how Eurovision was done behind the scenes in 1977.
(WARNING - BBC gallery strength LANGUAGE)




Enough Eurovision. Normal service resumed tomorrow.

Make a video for Europe - Win Some Money

Thanks to post on MAKE YOUR MARK for putting me onto the rather snappily entitled European Commission Enterprise and Industry European Entrepreneurship Video Award:

Take part in the European Entrepreneurship Video Award!



From ec.europa.eu:-

Have you thought of being your own boss, of being an entrepreneur?

The majority of people in Europe have never had such ideas. Maybe people simply do not know what the entrepreneurial spirit is all about. Can you explain it in a video?
Can your video encourage them?

We are looking for videos that explore one of the following subjects: "The entrepreneurial spirit", "Innovative Entrepreneurship", "Responsible Entrepreneurship"

For the best video in each of the three categories the European Commission will award a prize of € 3,000, the second best video will be awarded € 2,000, the third best € 1,000.

The producers of the best videos will be invited to the opening event of the European week for small and medium sized enterprises on 6 May 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.

MORE HERE:-
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/entrepreneurship/video-award/index_en.htm

Only just seen this -- deadline is 31 March...