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Experience Research/Education/Technology

Another year goes by and BEA keeps getting better and better! With over 150 different sessions, paper competitions, and special events, there was always quality education to be found. If you were unable to make this year's show, take a peak at what you missed and you'll be convinced, "you can't miss another BEA"...

 

Highlights included:

  • BEA Best of Festival - for the first time ever, the intro was shown in HD, an amazing feat to an already stunning show.
  • Live Tapings of Avid's Podcast "the Ruff Cut" with the Editor and Assistant Editor of "Sex & The City" and the Assistant Editor of "Chuck". You can view these shortly at The Rough Cut page
  • 2009 Research Symposium covering the TechnoPolitics
  • 2009 DESA & DSA Award Winners; Dr. Michael D. Murray & Dr. Alan B. Albarran
  • Writing Division Paper Competition with Hollywood writers, Dean Batali, Skye Dent, and Jonathan Prince discussing the winning research papers by Mary Blue and Patricia F. Phalen
  • Second Annual Documentary workshop with Jon Fauer, ASC and Dave Sperling

 


 

BEA 2010, April 15-17th, Las Vegas, NV
Spotlight: Balancing Form and Content


Everyone involved in the media world, in teaching, research or industry practice, walks the line of balance between the elements of form and content. In a general sense, form is about the shape and structure of something as distinguished from the content, the information contained in the form. In Broadcasting, we are all aware of the balance between the shape and structure of our media and how the content itself will be used. We agonize over the technology that will shape and structure our content, and then analyze how we want the content to be delivered and used but also how it is received and used. Aesthetic choices, budget constraints, and audience interests pull at both. Choosing "Balancing form and content" as the 2010 program spotlight would allow BEA members from all interest divisions to choose an aspect of the balancing act to mull over, edit, and expand as it relates to past, present and future media.

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