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50 FINAL ONE Representation, Censorship And More from 2019-06-02T15:14:21
The students speak quite candidly about dealing with suicide, representation of disability, race, sex in media. Self-censorship, the language around mental illness, social media “joking” to normali...
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49 The James Fair Podcast With Jacopo & Rob from 2019-05-25T07:04:27
Jacopo and Rob join James and WeZ to discuss wrapping up the Film Degree. Wrapping up third year. The London moves. Competitiveness within the course. “Guinea Pigs” ? NSS over the phone! Overall ex...
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48 Coping With Pressure And Skills For Life Alongside Studies from 2019-05-03T12:00:09
Jon joins James and WeZ for a verbal ramble about sleep patterns, coping with stress, good communication and skills for life alongside studies. They also touch on “Social Media’s” impact on creativ...
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47 Meaningful Projects, Being Heard, Sharing A Grad Project, Q&A from 2019-04-05T12:00:02
Jon, Jack and Adam join James and WeZ to discuss items from the anonymous Padlet. Making “meaningful” films with cultural value. Being heard on set as a Sound OP and getting people to take sound se...
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46 Settling For Less, Actors Performances, Letterboxing Films And Body Swap from 2019-03-29T11:51:58
James and WeZ discuss your anonymous prompts from the Padlet. This week it’s about settling on things versus your expectations. Getting Performances from actors. Butting those f***** black lines at...
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45 FLOW THEORY from 2019-03-22T13:30:09
James and WeZ debate Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s FLOW theory from a book WeZ is listening to and WeZ almost ends up being against something he came in to liking! ... take a bow James! :)
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44 Student Feedback Vs Expert Opinion from 2019-03-15T13:38:40
Nick joins James and WeZ to discuss the impact of student's feedback on the ones coming behind in terms of course design and skills for employment amongst other things.
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43 Alcohol Use And Abuse Amongst Students from 2019-03-08T13:01:53
Sunny and Steve join James and WeZ for a good honest chat about alcohol and other substances use and “abuse” amongst students. Drinking Culture, pre-drinks, Self-medicating for stress/sleep or othe...
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42 Grad Projects And Final Year Advice With L6 Students from 2019-03-01T13:30:03
James and WeZ are joined by Emily, Frieda and Jon from the Media Production and Film courses to discuss the pressures of their Grad Projects, the final year of Uni and planning for what’s next.
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41 Life In The UK Test, What Bothers You, Why Are We Letting Them Collect Us. from 2019-02-22T11:29:06
Life in the UK test, what bothers you, why are we letting them collect us.
Steve joins James and WeZ (for the third time!) to take/fail the “Life in the UK test” required now for a VISA....
40 Berlin Festival Experience. Film Society. Grad Projects. Work Loads from 2019-02-15T14:12:20
James and WeZ reach #40 with this weeks Podcast ! Janey-mack! Who'd of thunk it ! They catch up on last weeks Berlin Festival, chat a bit about the Grad Projects, societies and work loads.
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39 Zoos, Climate Change, Appealing Grades And Film Festivals from 2019-02-08T13:00:15
James and WeZ discuss Zoos, Climate Change, Appealing Grades, Lecturer Workload, Berlinale – benefits of attending Film Festivals and technology shows.
Contact: bridgechatter@gmail.com
38 James And WeZ's Doctorate Research Areas from 2019-01-25T13:45:52
James and WeZ discuss their research areas and doctorates. They want to give the students an idea of the daily demands on an academic teaching at undergrad level to bug courses. What they've done, ...
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37 Industries Now, YouTube Clips Vs Written Word, Genius, What Do You Need… from 2019-01-18T13:00:05
Carl Schoenfeld joins James and WeZ to discuss everything from Film course validation to creative industries now versus 100 years of celluloid and what can a course offer those born in to the media...
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36 Catch Up, Listener emails about the Attendance episode And What Next? from 2019-01-11T20:23
James and WeZ catch up after the Christmas break. Read more of your listener responses to the Attendance Hot Topic episode and invite you to join them, or at least suggest hot topics for the next e...
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35 Attendance Emails, Slumps And Christmas Tips from 2018-12-14T17:35:03
Jo joins James and WeZ to chat about Slumps whilst studying, read the attendance episode response emails and how to stay motivated over long breaks.
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EP 34 HOT TOPIC Attendance & Engagement from 2018-12-07T17:06:37
We'd really like to hear from you this week! Email us your thoughts about attendance and engagement.
bridgechatter@gmail.com
33 Max's Film, Scriptwriting Process And Creative Ramblings from 2018-11-30T14:18:11
Max joins James and WeZ to chat about her short film Terminal, the scriptwriting process and creativity in general. James is mean to WeZ today!
Contact: bridgechatter@gmail.com
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32 Shooting From The Hip Contest, 48HR Media Challenge And Just Making Stuff from 2018-11-24T15:19:32
James and WeZ discuss the Shooting From the Hip Contest, potential new categories for the upcoming January 48HR Media Challenge and just making stuff.
Contact: bridgechatter@gmail.com
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31 Second Year Slump Pt2, Fake It 'till You Make It And Cliques from 2018-11-16T14:56:23
James and WeZ are joined by Joe from Second Year BA Film. Joe had emailed in a few weeks back (Ep 28) about what he called the "Second Year Slump" and wanted to continue the discussion in person.
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30 James Concept Album from 2018-11-09T15:32:21
Our 30th Episode! James chats to WeZ about creating and releasing his new concept album based on the Industrial Revolution and its key players in Birmingham.
Link ot full album here: https://gi...
29 MUSHROOM 02 from 2018-11-02T16:09:35
WeZ annoys a tired James with the Bernard Pivot questionnaire that James Lipton uses at the end of each "Inside The Actors Studio". There's also as many CensorSheep than Babe 2!
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28 Listener Letters, Second Year Slump And Challenge Vs Mental Health from 2018-10-26T15:35:20
James and WeZ read some emails from listeners about the "Second Year Slump" and group working with Mental Health. They get in to the "swapping scars" mentality of the Industries and try to figure o...
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27 Short Sounds Festival, Flow, TTT & Skills Gene from 2018-10-19T15:35:05
Steve, Jo and Kyle join James and WeZ to discuss the Short Sounds Film Festival here in Bournemouth. They talk about Flow theory, 10,000 hours to mastery and cooking vs baking! Get in touch on brid...
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26 Freedom To Teach, Provocation and Transformation from 2018-10-12T15:01:16
James and WeZ use last week’s interview with James’s old school teacher to discuss where we are and the tools we have/don’t have now. They get in to the modern “structured” approach versus freedom ...
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25 James Visits His Old School Teacher from 2018-10-05T12:21:05
James visits and interviews his teacher from 25 years ago! (Yes that's young James in the picture!)
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24 Workload, Restload and Misery for the future from 2018-09-28T14:10:14
James and WeZ are joined by Jack from the film degree and Lewis from the Media Production. They discuss stressing out at Uni, knowing when to say no and the state of the planet.. maybe!
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23 First Weeks, Settling in and random old guy 2018 from 2018-09-21T17:56:46
James and WeZ are joined by some first year Media Production and Film students. They chat about getting used to living arrangements, expectations of Uni and cooking!
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22 Beginning Of Term 2018 from 2018-09-14T15:13:54
New term! New Season of The Bridge... Tom joins James and WeZ to discuss the first weeks back to study, dos, don'ts and maybes...
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21 End Of Term, Passion, Podcasting from 2018-06-01T10:56
James and WeZ sit for the last time this term to ponder the year gone by, finding and having a passion and other random bits. Huge thanks to those who stayed with us throughout the year. We do hope...
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20 Crowd Funding, Networking, Graduating and... Life from 2018-05-09T08:06:45
Finn, a L6 Media Production student, joins James and WeZ along with Steve McCarten to talk about Crowd funding, Networking, the relationship strains the creative industries can sometimes put on us ...
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19 THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND YOU from 2018-04-27T19:03:33
Robbie Spargo from Littledot Studios joins James and WeZ to talk about what "television" means today. "OTT" delivery, distribution and what the current media landscape means for current students.
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18 Getting The Most Out Of Uni from 2018-03-26T08:26:06
Dawn from L5 BA Film joins James and WeZ to discuss getting the most out of Uni, planning, motivation, being a PAL Leader and shares some tips.
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17 "Bridglette" On Finding The Engine from 2018-03-19T19:00:43
In this short episode James and WeZ discuss finding the engine for the stories you chose to tell and relate back to their film idea and production meeting.
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16 Status Anxiety: "Confidence" and comparing yourself to others. from 2018-03-15T15:43:30
James and Wez discuss "Status Anxiety" (Alain de Botton), "confidence" and the UK social class categories!!! CONTACT: bridgechatter@gmail.com
Link to the test WeZ took: http://www.bbc.co....
15 Mental Health from 2018-03-09T11:51:27
James and WeZ are joined by Chloe (1st year Media student) and Dr Bill Merrington (Chaplain at BU), to discuss Mental Health and some things that can help.
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14 Stuff, Let It Go And Finding Your Element from 2018-02-26T14:23:25
James and WeZ discuss owning "stuff", Letting it go and Finding your element.
This is the link to the Ken Robinson talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity...
13 Placements from 2018-02-05T13:54:18
James and WeZ are joined by Emilee and Christos, second year Media Production students, to talk about Placements.
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12 Haircuts Homelife And Jamboree. from 2018-01-29T11:05:18
James and WeZ discuss haircuts, being home for Christmas and the Film Project idea. Can we really do it differently or will we fall back in to the system that exists because it just works?
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11 The Feature Idea, Theory, Gender Balance from 2017-12-14T20:54:04
James and WeZ try an evening "Take 2" as the morning's verbal dander felt a little off (to James!). They've now said they're going to produce a feature film next year, they discuss theory a little...
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10 About Uni Life with 1st Yr Film Students from 2017-12-07T17:06:51
Harry, Ben, Ed, Cameron, James and WeZ discuss expectations of Uni life, getting a degree and just making stuff.
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09 Does Background Matter? Pt. 1 from 2017-12-01T09:31:54
James and WeZ discuss a listener email on whether they think your background matters at University and in Industry.
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08 "Bridglette" On Pitching from 2017-11-30T16:26:50
Wendy, James and WeZ discuss Pitching Films ahead of the B-Reel event on Tuesday Dec 5th at Canvas Loft Bar Bournemouth.
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07 Mushroom from 2017-11-23T18:56:26
Bee, James and WeZ work through WeZ's A4 list of random.
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06 Reflection, Grade Marks and Status Anxiety from 2017-11-16T18:40:25
James and WeZ discuss emails from listeners about Assessment, Reflection and potential alternatives to grade marks. Suggest a topic to discuss by emailing them on bridgechatter@gmail.com
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05 "Bridgelette" on 48hr Film Challenge from 2017-11-13T20:22:56
A "Little Bridge" to tackle a specific question around producing films in short time frames.
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04 Assessment Pt. 1 from 2017-11-09T12:07
James and WeZ air some thoughts on University Assessment. They are very keen to hear from you on this one: bridgechatter@gmail.com.
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03 Group Work Pt. 2 from 2017-11-03T01:00:47
James and WeZ continue the Group "Work" discussion as prompted by some of your emails. (It's a bit of a verbal dander... but you asked for it! :)
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02 Group Work Pt. 1 from 2017-10-26T16:48:26
James and WeZ figure out loud the question of group work and motivation. There's less sheep this week...
Contact the guys on bridgechatter@gmail.com
01 Intro to "The Bridge" (Bleeted) from 2017-10-22T14:07:59
James and WeZ figure out the Podcast's concept, touch on Analogue vs Digital nostalgia and discuss the Alan Watts observation that "school is a place we bring children to be brought up by other chi...
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