DobleCLICK festival 2012, VIC

Saludos desde Vic!
DobleCLICK 2012 in VIC, Catalonia, and we are here.
Sohvi Sirkesalo took 6 of us Media & Film&TV students to University of VIC in sunny Spain for giving workshops during the international week. The event also contains a short film festival, where students could submit their works beforehand and get rewarded during the festival.

The condition for us students to participate to this amazing trip, was giving interesting workshops in order to share our experience with students from various countries. The big kick off of the workshop sequence was given by us finnish students, Alexandra Ostasheva and Sabrina Seidl with the topic “How to survive your 1st commercial”.
We were happily surprised to see so many interested people participating our workshop and moreover taking an active part in it. The crowd was impressed by seeing different showcases from our previous projects and we managed to emotionally engage them and share their good as well as bad experiences with us.
Besides all the fantastic workshops, the organizers showed us the everyday life in the university and gave us an informative tour around the center of VIC. The entertainment was going on all day long and continued in the evening with an impressive show of students video works. TAMK university of applied sciences had 4 out of 24 movies in the run.
Apart from hard work, we also get the chance to enjoy the beauty of spanish spring, tasty food and the company of interesting people. Special greetings to our new dutch friends from Utrecht School of Arts which made our free time even more fun and exciting.
Now we have to return to some more workshops and will be back with another update soon.

Hasta luego,
Alexandra & Sabrina from Media
Joanna Makela, Tommi Jokinen, Joel Kinnunen & Mikko Helmanen from Film&TV
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BYOB at Ikuinen Gallery today at 7 pm!

BYOB 28th of March at Ikuinen Galleria 7-9pm!

“More is more!”

BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a series of one-night-exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors. Ikuinen Galleria and it surroundings will be full of beamers. We are waiting your contribution for the event.
It ́s never been this easy: you don`t have to bring anything but the video material (laptop is the most best way to bring the material but in emergency usb stick or dvd works too) and we will take care of other technical issues. Don ́t think about the quality, it ́s all about quantity.

Welcome spectators and film makers!https://www.facebook.com/events/343179022398987/
http://www.byobworldwide.com/

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Ikuinen gallery is a contemporary art project space located in the old factory complex Finlayson in central Tampere. The gallery is run by a board of fine art students in Tampere UAS School of Art and Media as part of their study program. Ikuinen gallery’s main focus is in presenting interesting and high quality student work, whereas work from other art school students and teachers as well as visiting artists are regularly also at show.

Previous exhibitions in Ikuinen Gallery

Ikuinen Gallery (in Finnish)
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24h in Tampere now to Colombia!

"24-hours.in selected for Festival International De La Imagen, Manizales, Colombia 16 - 20 April" says Richard Vickers' Facebook timeline this happy morning.

24 hours in Tampere is an online collaborative online interactive documentary and video installation by Richard Vickers and James Field, University of Lincoln School of Media (UK). The project started in a Tampere Art Factory (TAF) workshop in April with TAMK students and exchange students and was further developed with TAMK Media students in a workshop during MindTrek.

The interactive istallation won the 15th Videomedeja Festival in Novi Sad and has been also selebrated in Istanbul and Graz.

Read more about the project
Festival Internacional de la Imagen

Go to: 24-hours.in/
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IGDA Meeting in the Wild West

The Wild West - to be taken seriously.

Last week on an icy Tuesday afternoon, a few brave TAMK students journeyed to Helsinki in order to meet the Finnish Game Industry.

IGDA (International Game Developers Association) is an organisation of mainly people working for game companies which has monthly meetings, usually taking place in the Cuba bar in Helsinki. This time was especially interesting, since the whole event was a Wild-West-themed, due to a release party of Digital Chocolates’ new game “Gangs of Boomtown”.

Being sure to add to the atmosphere, many people went with the Wild West dresscode. On top of that, there was even a country band playing in the later evening!

Who has the biggest hat?

Besides networking and drinking with employed people, the evening included a short presentation about the game it was themed after. It’s a social game for Google Plus - it will be interesting to see where this market will go.

IGDA meetings are a valuable opportunity for students interested in games to socialize with professionals. Talking and drinking with those can give very interesting insights into how the game industry actually looks like, and a glimpse at what one might get oneself into.

IGDA - Network with the game industry!

Score club usually organizes a car from the school for a trip to the IGDA meeting. Students interested in Score can join and come with us!

Wolf Carver: Distribution company and Cannes!

Main characters on Aino Suni's Sudenveistäjä,
Jaana Joensuu as daughter and Kai Lehtinen as Sulo.

Being in Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival was a success for a short film Sudenveistäjä, (Wolf Carver)!

Producer Ilona Tolmunen met in Clermont people from Distribution Company AD ASTRA FILMS, and they were very interested to take Wolf Carver to their catalog. The company is working from Cannes, France. After paperwork now we are co-operating with them. Their job is to distribute Wolf Carver to other film festivals and TV-channels in Europe and all over the world.

And because of co-operating with AD ASTRA FILMS, Wolf Carver will be seen at Cannes Film Festival 2012! AD ASTRA FILMS has their own screening at 17th May about their new films. It is a great opportunity to get more and more viewers to Wolf Carver. At least producer Ilona and director Aino Suni will be visit to Cannes.

Wolf Carver has been selected many other festivals also. See below our festival calendar. Looking forward Wolf Carvers future!

Text by Ilona Tolmunen.

Sudenveistäjä / Wolf Carver in the net.

Read more about Wolf Carver on this blog

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DobleClick web site and programme launched

The third edition of the DobleClick Festival will be March 27-29 at Vic University, Barcelona. You can find the web site at:
http://www.dobleclick.cat/en/

Alexandra Ostasheva will present her "Open Light" project at DobleClick

A TAMK Media and Film&television student team led by Senior Lecturer Sohvi Sirkesalo will participate in the festival on site, students will also contribute to the film competition of the festival.

The festival is a good example of the 21st century student centered education: The workshops will be prepared and run by students. Here are the workshops held by our students at the festival:

How can you make an absurd idea come to life?
17 months and over 100 people working for a 13 minutes film. How do you manage as a producer to keep everything under control when almost everything is falling apart?
Workshop by Mikko Helmanen.

How to survive your 1st commercial?
A discussion about the importance of teamwork and storyboard; about how to communicate with a problematic client and to organize your work in phases, in order to create a good animation.
Workshop by Sabrina Seidl and Alexandra Ostasheva

Create and execute a project with tv channel
Presentation of customer project to a Finnish TV channel. We will present 3 different points of view: directors, editors and producers.
Workshop by Joanna Mäkelä, Tommi Jokinen and Joel Kinnunen.


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TTVO students explain what Demola is (Video)

About a month ago the new projects at Demola started and probably many of new participants are facing a problem of explaining what is Demola.

Benedikt, Lena and Ilkka preparing for the interview with Petri Räsänen, co-founder of Demola

During last Demola Academy semester in the fall project “New Factory - How Did the Story Go?” took place. A team of 6 people all from TAMK and 5 of them studying at TTVO started their journey on creating a video about Demola, its history and its purpose.

The project is completed and evaluated and now it is your turn to see the video and understand more about Demola.

Team:
Emilija Veselova
Benedikt Ruf
Ilkka Sallinen
Lauri Kuusela
Lena Strutz
Vesa Rantanen

Story: Emilija Veselova
Emilija is student of our international Degree Programme in Media
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European Virtual Academy meeting at TAMK

This week our Media Programme hosts the second EVA project meeting.

European Virtual Academy builds a transnational educational platform, a service for exchange studies implemented at home. EVA follows the guidelines of building the European Higher Education Area as they are presented in the ECTS Users' Guide.

In autumn 2011 EVA started a series of online courses about visual culture, developed by professors from arts, media and social sciences.

EVA will become a digital version of a real university, with library, classrooms and workshops, laboratories and forum space. Everything is available to all the students of the participating universities.

The present project is financed by the EU Long Life Learning Programme and will run until end of 2012. The plan is to continue the project in 2013 with more partners.

Noora Honkaniemi and Alicia Fernándes promoting EVA at TAMK
 School of Art and Media accompanied by EVA Board members Doru Pop,
Robert Wierzbicki, Dezső Szenkovics and Ari Närhi

Courses offered by EVA partners this spring:

• Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
• Femininity and Visual Cultualture
• Image Interpretation
• Refexivity in Film
• Social Media in Communication and Community Building
• Special effects
• Storytelling in Virtual Environments

The founding partners of EVA are:

• Babeş-Bolyai University
• Hochschule Mittweida - University of Applied Sciences
• Sapientia Hungarian University of Transilvania
• Tampere University of Applied Sciences
• University of Milano-Bicocca

More partners will be invited soon for the autumn semester.

Read more:
http://evaonlinecourses.eu/
EVA post by EVA student Heidi Mäenpää:
http://tamk-artmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/european-virtual-academy-spring-term.html
Follow EVA on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/evacademy
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The amazing Ice Screen Project exhibition

The Ice Screen Project exhibition just opened. I don't even try to explain what our international students have done coached by Environmental Art Lecturer Vesa Toukomaa. It is brilliant, awesome, absolutely fabulous.
You have to come to experience it yourself.
The exhibition is open at Spede, 2nd floor daytime still next week.
The modest photos I took with my toy camera just give a foggy idea of the show.
Cai
Read more about the Ice Screen Projects
Visit Ice Screen Project 2011 web site

Tampere Film Festival has started - many events coming!

Film Festival Party today @Klubi. Doors open at 21!

Tampere International Film Festival and TAMK have had cooperation for over 20 years and every year our students and staff are busy during the first weeks of March. International event takes place in Finlayson  area, Festival Center is only around 50 meters from our school - this festival is a unique opportunity to our students to show their experience and works for the professionals of film and media field. And also learn new aspects on film and gain credits!
Here you have the calendar for this week:
Thursday 8.3.
16.00 Kino TAMK -our own screening at Tullikamari. 11 Short films produced by our students - fiction, animation, music video.
All films at TFF web site!
21.00 The Legendary Film Festival Party at Klubi!
Plauge Dj, VJ OXO, Video Art, band of the evening: Streak and the Raven
Party in Facebook!


Friday 8.3.
10-13 Film Students Network at Niagara - meet students from Estonia, Romania, Austria and UK and see their films! These meetings also on Saturday and Sunday 10-13!
13,15,17 Film Festival Studio - tv-programs directly from Siperia, produces by the second year students of Film and TV.


Many interesting seminars, discussions and screenings, parties, friends.. Enjoy the Tampere Film Festival!


Tampere Film Festival

Ice Screen Project 2012 opening @ Finlayson

 ISP 2012 :: Teaser Trailer from hermaxx on Vimeo.

It seems that in our fast-changing, crowded with new technologies world, everything is so common that there is nothing to amaze us. But the idea of a unique project organized by TAMK is a challenge. During one week of cutting and lifting ice blocks from a frozen lake in Lapland and assembling them to huge-sized custom-shaped ice screens which are being projected on, students are given the opportunity not only to work with ice in terms of large-scale sculpturing but also to explore new ways and possibilities of interactive visual installments.
Project is an opportunity for creative students to implement their visual creations on the prepared ice blocks. The format of those creations can differ from a picture on an ice block to the interactive video installation.
Ice screen project – is a unique opportunity to expand the perception of ice by adding innovations. It transforms nature to a space where people are involved into visual world and touch the sense of new experience.
With the help of newest media devices we present the Ice screen project exhibition 2012.

We invite You to the exhibition opening at
Spede (2nd floor), TAMK Finlayson campus
on Thursday 4p.m

Greenfield memories at Kino TAMK, Tampere Film Festival 8.3.

Liisu Mikkonen as Josefina in Greenfield memories.

Short film Greenfield memories will be screened at the Tampere Film Festival on the Kino TAMK screening 8.3. Greenfield memories was shot at autumn 2011 in different locations of Ostrobothnia. The main character is played by Liisu Mikkonen. Andy Ståhle plays her brother.

Film is about citygirl Josefina who must face her past when she returns back to her roots to sell her father's old movie theather. The forgotten countryside will show its true character to Josefina and awakes the long gone memories.

Director: Henna Seppälä

Script: Henna Seppälä

Cinematography: Hanna Maria Mäkelä

Sound: Philippe La Grassa

Editing: Martina Kuitto

Music: Michael Law

Production: TAMK/ Ulla Koikkalainen, Henna Seppälä ja Martina Kuitto

Text: Henna Seppälä, photo: Eero Alava.

Kino TAMK on Thursday, 8th of March at 16.00 in Hällä - have a look to the list of movies

European Virtual Academy Spring Term begins

The European Virtual Academy (EVA) Spring Term has started! The students of TAMK have a special opportunity to subscribe to these great online courses offered by Babeş-Bolyai University, Hochschule Mittweida, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transilvania, University of Milano-Bicocca and, of course, Tampere University of Applied Sciences. The site is still under development but the more people try it out, the better it will be in the future. The Spring Term began on March 1st but students can still go and subscribe to a variety of excellent courses: 

• Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
• Femininity and Visual Culture
• Image Interpretation
• Reflexivity in Film
• Social Media in Communication and Community Building
• Special effects
• Storytelling in Virtual Environments

Last autumn I finished a Film and Music course and I have to say that the information I got from it has helped me immensely in my sound design projects. Using EVA is free and easy, and of course rewards students with credit points. The courses are worth 5-8 ECTS. The credits can be transferred just like credits gained during an exchange. 

EVA also has a Facebook page where you can ask your questions. I warmly recommend our students to try this service out!

Story: Heidi Mäenpää

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Animated TAMK programmes in English

For the Visual Design and Animation course, we were asked to create a short introductory animation for the TAMK logo. At the time we were learning about stop motion, so Albert and I decided to create a paper stop-motion animation that introduced the degree programmes run in English language offered at TAMK.



We incorporated a little bit of humor and kept the overall feel and look of it very playful - which was helped by the already spirited colours of the logo. Although the shooting part of the film was very tedious (especially with flimsy paper!), the overall process was enjoyable and enriching.

We hope you enjoy the animation!

Albert and Anna-Kaisa
Albert and Anna-Kaisa are students of our international Degree Programme in Media
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