The Link Newsletter _Issue 1 2008

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The Regional Development Centre (RDC) is a centre to promoteinnovation, technology transer and enterprise in the wider region and

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and grow the number o production

crew members available to work in

the region.

The second strand ocussed on

the development o skills in post-

production areas such as editing,

animation and design. Courses

covered programmes including

Final Cut Pro, Motion, Pro Tools

and 3D Studio Max. Participants

had a chance to work on ve real-

lie projects or local companies,

producing corporate and marketing

videos with a real budget and

deadline. Each member o the team

took a role in the production team

and the projects were each very

successul.

In our third and most recent

strand, the New Media Factoryis trying to encourage the

development o local production

and post-production companies.

To build a sustainable production

and post-production industry

here, we need entrepreneurs and

were created to meet this need.

To urther expand and encourage

the development o the growing

creative and digital media industry

in the East Border Region, the New

Media Factory programme was

developed. A three strand approach

is helping in the development and

expansion o the broader creative

and digital media industry, in sectors

such as lm making, television and

video production, multi-media,

animation and music technology,

said David.

The rst strand o the programme

was to create greater interest in

the sector and a series o short

introductory courses in production

and location work, were run in

conjunction with the Louth, Newry

and Mourne Film Commission.

There was quite a lot o interest in

the camera, lighting, scriptwriting,

assistant direction, make-up and

production and this has helped local

talent learn new industry level skills

Beore the Bright Room was set

up in 2005, research had shown

that although there was great

potential or the television and

lm industry in the area, there

was a signicant production and

post-production skills shortage.

The local industry was embryonic

and ragmented and skilled

proessionals had to leave the

region to work elsewhere,

explained David.

The Bright Room acility was

created as a result o the Midas

Initiative, a creative and digital

media cluster programme,

ollowing the recognition o the

cross-border economic potential,

by the Regional Development

Centre unded through the EU

Interreg 111A Programme and theInternational Fund or Ireland.

Research had shown that a lack o

industry level inrastructure in the

region was hindering the industrys

development. The Bright Rooms

world class post-production acilities

BrightLights Beckon

businesses to increase employment

opportunities and generate growth

in the sector. 12 local digital

media proessionals and budding

entrepreneurs are currently taking

part in a 12 week programme o

business training, mentoring and

networking at the Bright Room to

assist them in developing their own

innovative business ideas.

Mairtin de Barra, Director o the

Louth Newry and Mourne Film

Commission is very encouraged by

the dynamic growth o companies

during the last two years and the

opportunities this will bring or local

economic development.

The excellent high-tech Bright

Room acilities at DkIT have

been crucial to the possibility odeveloping this ast growing sector

in a region outside the existing lm

and tv production hubs in Dublin

and Belast.

David Tiernan Manager o the high defnition post production acility The Bright Room at DkIT, spoke about

project and what this means or the growth o the digital media, television and flm industry in the East Bord

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It is a huge bonus to this cross-

border area and has acted as a

catalyst and supportive role in the

growth o the sector. More and

more digital media companies are

being set up here, like Big Mountain

Productions, Meedja and Zodiac,

with people moving back to the

area because they know that they

have all the acilities they need in

Dundalk, added Mairtin.

The overall Midas clustering

initiative or companies to pool

resources and share opportunities to

tender or larger projects has been

very successul.

Eight o the original cluster

companies have ormed a limited

company Midas Multimedia Ltd.

They are now able to use their jointskills and resources to work on very

large scale projects, which were

previously impossible to access,

bringing revenue and employment

to the area, he added.

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At the heart o the Regional Development Programme

are the core principles o Innovation, Technology Transer

and Enterprise Development. And nowhere is this more

evident than in the Novation programme which helps many

fedgling businesses to grow into successul enterprises.

The Regional Development Centre, through its Novation

Programme managed by Sean MacEntee is proactive in nurturing

new business ideas and start-up businesses. Some o these

businesses come into contact with the Regional Development

Centre (RDC) when they embark on the twelve month Novation

Enterprise Platorm Programme (NEPP) business mentoring and

development initiative. The programme has helped over 60 start-

up and newly ormed business successes since it was set up over

six years ago, o which over 60% are still in business today, a high

level o achievement. Between them, these businesses employ

over 400 people and have a collective turnover o approximately

30m per annum.

A measure o success at the RDC can be seen at morningcoee, when the air in the central atrium buzzes with creativity

and swapped business know-how. The inormal conversations

between the entrepreneurial tenants, researchers and business

mentors oten lead to innovative ideas which have commercial

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The NEPP programme is aimed at graduate level participants developing an innovative product or service in

a knowledge based, IT or high technology sector. Brothers Conor and Fintan McCormack, with mechanical

and electrical engineering backgrounds, are developing a new and highly innovative prototype machine, the

Mcor Matrix. This builds 3D prototype models using A4 paper as its eedstock, a very economical material to

use, compared to ABS plastic or plaster. The idea was completely new in Ireland and is in strong demand by

design engineers. The new company MCOR technologies, now has an extensive potential global market in therapidly expanding 3D printer market and has just won best Innovator Company rom Louth County Enterprise

Board Awards.

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company in June 2005 and at

that stage we hadnt heard

about the RDC, said Conor.

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the really extensive business

support, mentoring, business

planning and the great

networking and contacts we

have gained over the last year.

We are now at a very crucial

stage in our development

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Keith Bailey and Kornelia Rybackaboth achieved exceptional success,as qualied industry proessionals orApples Final Cut Pro, ater startingout with no previous experience othis lm editing sotware.

Both iMedia students took themodular Digital Diversity course, anintroduction to digital media andlearnt about Adobe Photoshop ordigital imaging, Dreamweaver orweb authoring, Flash Animation andFinal Cut Pro or lm editing.

They both scored such high marksin their Final Cut Pro module, that

the Digital Diversity programmemanager, Eamonn Quinn persuadedApple to let them sit their Train theTrainer courses, which will now allowthem both to train others.

Keith and Kornelia have beenexceptional students and had a realfair or the Final Cut Pro sotwareprogramme, even though they werenew to this sotware and the courseswere quite a challenge, he said.

We have run three iMediaprogrammes with cross borderdigital media courses in Dundalk,Banbridge and Armagh and eachtime, I have been amazed at thetalent, skills and interest o theparticipants. Quite a ew have goneon to use their new skills eitherin their jobs, or to create a newbusiness opportunity, or even justto be able to teach their childrenabout animation or edit the amilyvideos.

Keith Bailey, a proessional engineerwith a PhD in aerodynamics issetting up his own business Engility,

using his new sotware trainingskills.

Although I had used Photoshopand Dreamweaver beore, I had noexperience o Final Cut Pro, saidKeith. I really liked the packageand was lucky enough to scorereally highly in the FCP5 userexam.

It made sense or me to becomea trainer and it works in well with

my new business. I am really glad tohave had the opportunity to achievethis level thanks to the iMediacourse.

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Eamonn also explained, Thecourses also had a cross communitycontent in peace and reconciliation,which was run by an experiencedconfict resolution acilitator andleading expert rom South Arica, DrBrandon Hamber.

The Programme has been sosuccessul in act that the projecthas been nominated by the SpecialEuropean Peace Building Fundas having made an outstandingcontribution to peace building andcommunity.

The programme has been undedby the EUs Programme or Peaceand Reconciliation, managed by theSpecial EU Programmes Body by theCross Border Consortium.

Taking part in the iMedia Digital Diversitys new media programme,

organised by the Regional Development Centre has allowed a career

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The research based Nestling Project in Dundalk is showing how we

need to think out o the box about providing improved care and

services or our increasingly elderly population.

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The Winds o ChangeWith climate change high on the worlds agenda and

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applied research being carried out by the Centre or

Renewable Energy at Dundalk Institute o Technology

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