What other broadcaster would spend thousands of dollars interviewing some of the most interesting figures in Modern Media all over the world and then just give away their raw footage to the public? So amazing;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution/competition.shtml
The Digital Revolution competition is a great example of forward thinking media distribution. You can go and download all their footage and cut it into a 2-minute trailer or short film and if you win it will be featured on the BBC website. Why the hell can't anyone in north america (especially Canada) figure this out? Quick CBC sink our tax money into some trite useless sitcom *see example below,
http://www.cbc.ca/beingerica/
It's been a dream of mine for a long time to work with the BBC, luckily I am a UK citizen so I can submit to this contest. I'll be posting my submission on here sometime before the Jan 4th 2010 deadline.
