CA200 Hours for Spring 2009:
M,W, F 10a-2p
T 12p-7p
TH 12p-9p

The BEA Festival of Media Arts is an international exhibition of award-wining faculty and student works chosen in the following competitions: audio, documentary, interactive multimedia, news, scriptwriting, and video. This year, the Festival received a record number 878 submissions across the 13 faculty and student competitions. BECA Faculty and Students were honored in several categories:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is challenging the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) on the grounds that it "impedes innovation and thwarts consumers' rights to make full use" of digital material and gives "some industry leaders unprecedented power to influence the pace and nature of innovation. . . upsetting the traditional balance between the interests of copyright owners and the interests of the public."

Students from BECA 580 - Media in Community Service will have their first shoot of the semester at Saturday's Chinese New Year's Parade. The students are in the process of producing a video for the Community Response Team of the Community Youth Center (CYC), an organization that works with Asian and Pacific Islander youth in San Francisco. Two CYC groups - a hip hop group and a drill team - will march in the parade. The BECA 580 crew will catch the youth while they rehearse before the parade, and then follow their progress in the parade.

The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) is implementing new standards for measuring audiences and establishing standard formats for online advertising. Check out the full story at the NewTeeVee blog!