The more we have looked at film tourism the more we have become convinced that it should become work integral to screen agencies and filmcommissions. Doing it that way means additional work load is minimal but the benefits large.

What are the benefits?

The benefits can be enormous, particularly for non-commercial agencies. Creating a wider relationship with businesses outside of the creative sector has a lot of ‘political’ benefit. A wider range of businesses, and  more of them, understand the value of the service. Also, you can form better relationships with tourism oriented businesses and agencies who often also have significant influence.

Oh, and of course there is the economic impact which is easier to measure if you have relationships with the tourism sector.

We, at OpenBrolly, continue to develop new ways of delivering valuable information and services for film tourism as part of an integrated service.

Useful links:

Kent Film Office Movie Map

MovieSite demo Movie Map

The Independent article

Remuneration is £8,000 p.a. for a 21 hour week. Ideally, we are looking for the candidate to work several mornings per week but will negotiate with the successful candidate.

Leave is 28 days pro rata – including public holidays and days the office closes. OpenBrolly takes 1st and 2nd January, Easter Monday and closes between Christmas and New year.

If you believe you are suitable please send us a CV. The closing date is Friday 15th April.

General Office Administration
•Provide a professional “front-of-house” response to all telephone, email and in-person
enquiries from clients.
•Provide efficient secretarial services.

Other
•Ensure the confidentiality of the affairs of the company’s business.
•Support the objectives of the company.
•Prioritise own workload and work effectively without supervision.
•Work collaboratively with other members of the staff and clients.
•Undertake any other duties, as reasonably required by the Directors .
•Complete work within agreed deadlines.

Essential
•Experience of general office administration (answering the telephone, filing,
photocopying, dealing with enquiries, supporting staff).
•Computer literate in all Microsoft office applications (e.g. Word, Outlook, Excel).
•Experience of managing and maintain database systems and organising record keeping
systems.
•Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong inter-personal skills.
•Experience of working within a small team and/or prioritising own workload.
•Willingness to contribute to the work of the company as a whole.
•Clear use of English.

Personal Qualities
•Excellent time keeping, reliability and personal organisational skills.
•Flexible. Can adapt to changing work priorities at short notice, take on the ideas of others
and adapt own way of working.
•Systematic. Enjoys administrative work and making systems work for others.
•A problem solver.
•Positive, service-oriented and helpful inter-personal communication.
•Good at multi-tasking – enjoys doing several different tasks at once.
•Experienced, self-confident person

We can be contacted through +44 1309 638077 and recruit@openbrolly.com.

27/3/11

The industry days on film tourism were agreed to be successful, sharing best practice and demonstrating the emerging technologies.

A number of conclusions were drawn, not least that solutions must reflect the visitors’ needs and that engagement of the tourist, through social media, was the next step in developing a film tourism product. The importance of film goers understanding where a film was shot was illustrated – perhaps a condition of local funding and assistance could be prominence of the location in the credits.

OpenBrolly provided a review of the changes in technology: we are in the middle of a major transition to mobile devices, geographic and context described information. In addition, social media, has to be considered in any tourism product design and marketing strategy. New technologies, such as video delivery, QR codes and augmented reality offer exciting ways of delivering content but are not without their real-world constraints – such as mobile operator data caps and slow speeds in some areas.

OpenBrolly will continue to develop examples of film tourism solutions and David Sim is speaking again at Screentourism 11 – Friday 18th March 2011, The Princess Anne Theatre, BAFTA, London W1

Right to left:
Dr Philip Long – Leeds Metropolitan Univ.
Geoff Wilcock – OpenBrolly
Emmanuel Duval – Atout France
Cristobal Jarillo, president of Morocco Mundi (Spain)

MovieMed is a network of countries surrounding the Mediterranean looking at film production and film tourism.

Geoff was asked to discuss Internet technology innovation in film tourism. He explained the need for map based information to deliver useable services to tourists, The increasing use of the smartphone was accelerating this change.

He discussed how information held by various partners could be combined, using the Internet and social networking, to deliver engaging tourism products and services.

This particular contract had an interesting set of technical challenges to overcome. There is no 3G mobile phone coverage and limited 2G coverage (i.e. no coverage in some places). The client wanted to be able to guide visitors to accommodation, attractions and restaurants across a huge geographic area and therefore location-relevant results were required. Up to date information is essential, particularly for special offers and events.

We addressed these challenges through load balancing data. Pre-loading all the data was not an option – it would rapidly become out of date and, in any case, the volume of data would have meant that the app would have to have been downloaded over WiFi (an Apple restriction) rather than anywhere with a mobile signal. Instead the app gradually populates with information, always looking for the latest information if it can get it.

You can download the application from the app store for free. Search for “Cairngorms”.

Screen agencies and film offices can plug it straight into their core information.

We will be available to meet in Cannes from Sunday 16th.