21 STREAMPUNK Student Broadcasting
UK film and TV school, Ravensbourne University, has launched a pop- up TV channel that turns learning into some serious broadcasting A NEW KIND OF UNIVERSITY RAVE Words by Laura Jeacocke
ased in north Greenwich, London, Ravensbourne University is hard to miss, with its award-winning, aluminium-clad architecture
showcasing the innovation at the heart of one of the UK’s top media schools. Boasting a range of work spaces, design studios and tech hubs, the institution now has its own pop-up TV channel, RaveTV. Ravensbourne’s production and broadcast engineering courses have been running since the seventies, and have a tradition of producing an outside broadcast for its annual degree show. It typically works with large commercial suppliers or the BBC, borrowing OB gear and even trucks, to broadcast the degree show on local community channels. Instigated by heads of faculty, RaveTV was launched as a stand-alone channel with a life beyond the degree show day. “It provides real-world experience for students, while also developing a showcase for our work and promoting the achievements of students,” says Audrey Aquilina, course leader for Digital Television Production. The students are responsible for all aspects of RaveTV, including content management, compliance, scheduling, marketing, as well as the actual production and technical operations, too. Aquilina tells us that the programming “involves everything from studio output, formats, documentaries, short films, experimental work and events”, but that essentially it is up to the students as to what is produced.
BEHIND THE SCENES Students from Ravensbourne University working on a RaveTV broadcast
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