Workshop on P2P TV

This is the notes from a workshop I facilitated at the beyondTV festival in Swansea

P2P TV a working mass media?

This workshop will be broken into 2 half’s the first half will deal with the practicalities and possibilities of online “broadcast” alt-media. The second on making such media folled by Q&A.

PART ONE

How to distribute your video to 200,000 people. Look at an example of a group already doing it:

http://www.welcometothescene.com/

http://www.junentertainment.com/

These are mainstream people intervening into subcultures so they can open them up to mainstream corporate products and services.

Look at the technologies involved and the resources available.

PART TWO:

One key to getting a video shown is to make video people like to watch, surprisingly considering the amount of effort people put in to making video few video makes have this as a high priority. The question is who are the ordnance? Some key things here are:

- story telling

- production values

- a subject that isn’t gazing at its navel, rather it is engaging and looking at the world as many people see it rather than a tiny minority, by doing this you can allow them the possibility to see different views.

* show the tutorial films in the CurrentTV sight to highlight good production values, discussion after each one.

Key technologies

Bit torrent

RSS

Broadband always on technology.

Key websites

http://participatoryculture.org/

http://www.current.tv

More interesting stuff

www.azureas.com

www.indymedia.org.uk

http://marcushateshisjob.com/

Issues that were brought up during the workshop

copy left – creative commons

encoding for web and on disc

wikypedia – look at

inclusive and real outreach

DVD and ruffcuts

Hamish Campbell
www.undecurrents.org/hamish