The Film & Sound Think Tank was convened by JISC and consisted of about twenty invited expert contributors. The main aim of the group was to advise JISC on all issues relating to the creation, discovery, use, delivery and preservation of film and sound resources and to input into relevant strategic and policy areas.

The group’s final report is featured on these pages and draws on two years of work by some 50 professionals in the higher and further education, media, and museums, libraries and archives sectors.

The report provides an overview of the pervasiveness of videos, multimedia and new technologies of communication in modern life, and highlights the challenge for those working in the cultural and education sector of making the traditional worlds of teaching and learning – and audiovisual production – relevant to today’s students and researchers. The report concludes with ten strategic recommendations on furthering the use of film and sound resources in education.

A printable pdf version of the full report is available here (1.8mb).

A summary version of the report is available here (1.5mb).

More information on the Film and Sound Think Tank can be found on the JISC website.