Sessions
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3DTV - Fact Or Fiction?
Friday 06 July 2012 9:30am-10:30am
Showroom Cinema 2
The future of 3D on TV. Will programmes ever be simulcast in 2D and 3D, or will 3D be relegated to only sports, ‘special events’ and niche documentary.
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BAFTA Presents: The Amazing World of Gumball
Thursday 05 July 2012 2:00pm-3:00pm
Showroom Cinema 4
A “making of” session with the creative team behind ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’, plus a sneak peek at a brand new episode from the upcoming second series.
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CMC Wrap
Friday 06 July 2012 3:35pm-4:00pm
Showroom Cinema 4
A final review of the top ten takeaways of CMC 2012
Commissioned By The Crowd
Friday 06 July 2012 9:40am-10:40am
Showroom Cinema 3
Got a great idea but don't know how to fund it? Use crowdfunding to finance a prototype, pilot or even a whole project. Top tips from those who've done it!
Cotton-Wool Kids
Friday 06 July 2012 2:15pm-3:30pm
Showroom Cinema 2
Are we over-protecting our pre-schoolers? There's a growing concern that children are not getting the life experiences they need to develop physically, mentally and emotionally.
In a risk-averse world, can we break the imitative behaviour barrier and help reverse the trend that prevents children from playing outside?
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Enabling Kids, Connecting Communities
Thursday 05 July 2012 11:00am-12:30pm
HUBS The Stage
Applying social media, digital and gaming technologies to real world problems. Insights from successful projects that empower children and their communities.
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Fighting Fantasy - Making Games
Thursday 05 July 2012 5:00pm-5:40pm
Showroom Cinema 4
Celebrating 30 years of interactive entertainment with Ian Livingston OBE
Focus on China
Thursday 05 July 2012 2:10pm-3:10pm
A chance to get the lowdown on working in China from UK and China based experts and local producer/broadcasters.
Focus on Malaysia
Friday 06 July 2012 9:30am-10:30am
HUBS The Stage
The lowdown on working with Malaysia including members of the International Exchange delegation.
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Let's Get Physical
Thursday 05 July 2012 3:30pm-4:30pm
HUBS The Stage
Exploring the possibilities and pitfalls of stimulating action and activity in the real world using media stimuli – in games, apps and on TV.
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Meet The Commissioners: Commercial
Friday 06 July 2012 11:00am-12:30pm
Showroom Cinema 4
The channel shapers at the UK's major commercial broadcasters share their programming overviews and outline their commissioning priorities.
Meet the Commissioners: Mind Candy
Thursday 05 July 2012 12:45pm-1:30pm
HUBS The Stage
Mind Candy is expanding beyond Moshi Monsters and commissioning and investing in new digital IP. Come along and learn about their plans
Meet The Commissioners: Public Service
Thursday 05 July 2012 11:00am-12:30pm
Showroom Cinema 4
The Commissioners that count are at the PSBs. And they need you as much as you need them. S4C, BBC and C4’s decision-makers quizzed on their needs and plans.
Meet The Commissioners: Publishing
Friday 06 July 2012 9:30am-10:30am
Showroom Cinema 4
What are publishers looking for? Discover what is exciting the commissioners from both established and start-up publishers.
Mind The Gap
Thursday 05 July 2012 12:30pm-1:30pm
Showroom Cinema 2
Sources of funding assistance for producers, including the EU MEDIA fund, soon to be Creative Europe, and EIS investment funds. Plus an update from the UK Animation campaign.
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Never Ending Story
Thursday 05 July 2012 11:10am-12:40pm
Showroom Cinema 3
How will storytelling have to change to fit in with children's media consumption? Will stories cease to have a beginning, a middle and an end?
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OMG£££ - Magnetising and Monetising Apps
Friday 06 July 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm
Showroom Cinema 3
Models, money and morals in the Wild West of the new App Stores.
Opening Keynote - Lane Merrifield
Wednesday 04 July 2012 6:00pm-7:15pm
Crucible - Main Stage
CMC 2012 begins with inspiration, innovation and challenge in "Ahead of the Game", our opening address. Conference Chair, Anna Home, introduces the keynote speaker , Lane Merrifield, co-founder of 'Club Penguin' the world’s largest online playground for children, and currently Executive Vice President of Disney Online Studios, responsible for all Disney’s virtual worlds.
Opening Quiz: Answers on a Postcard!
Thursday 05 July 2012 9:30am-10:30am
Showroom Cinemas 4 & 3
Back by popular demand, it’s the quiz that kicks off the conference with rib-tickling hilarity. Hosted by CBBC’s Friday Download presenter and actor, Caellach Spellman.
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Parent Power
Thursday 05 July 2012 2:00pm-3:00pm
HUBS The Stage
Thanks to Twitter and Facebook, parents have more access to broadcasters and content makers than ever before but what have they got to say? And are we listening?
Pizza Express Supper
Thursday 05 July 2012 8:00pm-10:30pm
Pizza Express
The world-famous CMC Pizza experience. It’s crowded, noisy and like the proverbial bear garden… Not to be missed! Pizza express tickets sell out so book early to avoid missing out.
PJ Playlist
Thursday 05 July 2012 5:10pm-6:00pm
Showroom Cinema 3
Children’s personalities share their most inspirational or intriguing shows from this year’s Prix Jeunesse Festival
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Reception
Wednesday 04 July 2012 7:15pm-8:45pm
Millennium Gallery
To follow the Opening Keynote – the CMC Reception in the Millennium Gallery.
Research: Appyfamilies – Apps for Big and Little Fingers
Thursday 05 July 2012 11:10am-12:40pm
Showroom Cinema 1
If you’re thinking about creating an app for kids, then this presentation will give you a great insight into your audience and the challenges before you start!
Research: Appyfamilies – Apps for Big and Little Fingers (rpt)
Friday 06 July 2012 11:10am-12:40pm
Showroom Cinema 1
If you’re thinking about creating an app for kids, then this presentation will give you a great insight into your audience and the challenges before you start!
Research: Children, Tablets, and the Future
Thursday 05 July 2012 2:10pm-3:10pm
Showroom Cinema 1
How Tablets are opening up new opportunities for children’s creativity, motivation to learn, and social skills.
Research: Children, Tablets, and the Future (rpt)
Friday 06 July 2012 9:40am-10:40am
Showroom Cinema 1
How Tablets are opening up new opportunities for children’s creativity, motivation to learn, and social skills.
Research: Connected Devices and Children’s Media Consumption (rpt)
Friday 06 July 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm
Showroom Cinema 1
Session Blog ACB is an industry neutral longitudinal research lab that studies how people use technology in their own homes, through a combination of video capture, screenshots from mobile devices and interviews with the participants. In the latest phase of research, ACB introduced a variety of connected TVs and mobile devices to a broad sample […]
Research: Getting To Grips With Young Children's Learning
Thursday 05 July 2012 11:10am-12:40pm
Showroom Cinema 1
Find out how to match the learning potential of interactive products with what’s appropriate for children under five.
Research: Kids and Co-viewing. Is it a screen thing?
Thursday 05 July 2012 5:10pm-5:40pm
Showroom Cinema 1
An up to date, real life portrayal of what ‘co-viewing’ means in the context of kids’ lives today and what the implications are for kids’ media content in the future.
Research: Kids and Co-viewing. Is it a screen thing? (rpt)
Friday 06 July 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm
Showroom Cinema 1
Session Blog We’ve conducted a 360 degree investigation into kids’ co-viewing behaviour. This will show, from a kids perspective, their favourite and most common interactions with TV and social media, what they’d like to be able to do more of, how this changes from younger to older kids and how traditional and modern co-viewing can […]
Research: Tears, Tantrums And Total Involvement In Purchasing Decisions
Thursday 05 July 2012 11:10am-12:40pm
Showroom Cinema 1
300 families told us how they decide what TV to watch, which car to buy and much more. We unravel the most valuable decision making process in the UK.
Research: Tears, Tantrums And Total Involvement In Purchasing Decisions (rpt)
Friday 06 July 2012 11:10am-12:40pm
Showroom Cinema 1
300 families told us how they decide what TV to watch, which car to buy and much more. We unravel the most valuable decision making process in the UK.
Research: TV Presenters – What children Want (rpt)
Friday 06 July 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm
Showroom Cinema 1
Results of the 2012 IZI international audience research on what children want in a TV presenter in terms of ethnicity, gender, age and other characteristics.
Research: Under The Sesame Tree
Thursday 05 July 2012 2:10pm-3:10pm
Showroom Cinema 1
The challenges of creating a post-conflict public service co-production that appeals to and benefits young children.
Research: Under The Sesame Tree (rpt)
Friday 06 July 2012 9:40am-10:40am
Showroom Cinema 1
The challenges of creating a post-conflict public service co-production that appeals to and benefits young children.
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Second Screen
Thursday 05 July 2012 2:00pm-3:00pm
Showroom Cinema 2
Companion apps alongside TV content have made a big impact in mainstream viewing – are they coming to kids’ TV too? Leading producers explore how 2nd screen Children’s TV can work.
Speed Meetings: Mind Candy
Thursday 05 July 2012 2:00pm-3:00pm
Your chance for a 5 minute advice session.
Speed Meetings: Public Service Commissioners
Thursday 05 July 2012 12:45pm-1:45pm
The Workstation
Your chance for a 5 minute advice session with the commissioner of your choice.
Speed Meetings: Publishing
Friday 06 July 2012 11:00am-12:00pm
The Workstation
Your chance for a 5 minute advice session with the commissioner of your choice.
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Testing, Testing
Thursday 05 July 2012 3:30pm-4:30pm
Showroom Cinema 2
Getting the most from your own user-testing
Thank You for the Music
Thursday 05 July 2012 11:00am-12:00pm
Showroom Cinema 2
The forgotten income! The ins and outs of potentially lucrative music royalty income in film, TV & other media platforms. It's simple when you know how!
The Audio Picture
Thursday 05 July 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm
Showroom Cinema 2
When life's full of cartoons, picture books and colourful TV, it‘s easy to see a child’s world as predominantly visual. But what about the incremental value that audio can create for brands?
The Creative Keynote Interview - Making Monsters
Thursday 05 July 2012 6:15pm-7:30pm
Showroom Cinemas 4 & 3
Double Carnegie medal winner Patrick Ness on monsters, teens & the creative process needed for both.
The Forum Buffet
Thursday 05 July 2012 8:00pm-10:30pm
Just across the Road from the Pizza Express The Forum offers a ‘quieter’ chance to meet large numbers of CMC delegates over a barbecue buffet. Forum Buffet Menu 2012
The VOD Inquiry
Friday 06 July 2012 11:00am-12:30pm
Showroom Cinema 2
Is the end game for Kids TV 100% On demand?
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Wednesday Workshop: From Screen To Shelf - Ready For Retail?
Wednesday 04 July 2012 1:00pm-5:00pm
Millennium Gallery - Arundel Room
For creators, producers and investors with ambitions for their media project to thrive both off screen and on. The insight acquired during this workshop will provide tools to objectively judge and articulate how your IP could translate successfully offscreen: an increasingly essential component of finance for many media projects.
Wednesday Workshop: Shape It, Pitch It
Wednesday 04 July 2012 1:00pm-5:00pm
HUBS A
Shape It, Pitch It is a unique opportunity to work on your idea. Whether it’s a game, book, radio or TV show, we give you the opportunity to work with a set of highly experienced experts to shape your idea and then try pitching it to a panel of guest commissioners from TV, games and publishing.
Wednesday Workshop: So Now You've Got An App
Wednesday 04 July 2012 1:00pm-5:00pm
HUBS Common Room
In order to be successful in today's marketplace, apps need to differentiate and deliver a truly great experience. Join us to explore what this means.
Wednesday Workshop: The Co-Pro Clinic
Wednesday 04 July 2012 1:00pm-5:00pm
HUBS The Stage
Session Blog This four-hour session is aimed at companies with developed projects, which are near-ready for presentation to co-production partners, distributors and broadcasters at the various international markets. Experts from distribution, licensing, business affairs & legal will reveal insights into structuring funding for projects, negotiating rights, exploring the various funds in different territories, and maintaining […]
Wednesday Workshop: Writers' Workout
Wednesday 04 July 2012 1:00pm-5:00pm
Electric Works
An active session to help you create stronger shows and structure better scripts.
Welcome Drinks
Wednesday 04 July 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm
Crucible - Main Stage
Once you’ve registered, join the CMC welcome drinks in the Crucible Theatre Bar.
Working With CBBC
Friday 06 July 2012 11:00am-12:15pm
HUBS The Stage
Working with CBBC: An insight into how external suppliers, talent and companies can nurture working relationships with CBBC in-house productions.
