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09:30 - 10:30 Sound Skills for Self Shooters
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for any self shooter who wants to improve their audio skills.
Trainer - Paul Roberts.
Join our specialist trainer, a former audio supervisor and location recordist, in a session designed to help you to choose, set up and use your equipment to gather clear and clean, high quality audio. We will demystify the technology and terminology and offer a wealth of top tips and real world techniques.
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09:30 - 10:30 Shooting on the Canon 5dMkii
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent.
Session for anyone with a good grasp of the basics of camera work who would like to extend their skill base to include using the Canon 5DMkii or equivalent DSLR.
With its distinctive cinematic look, the Canon 5dMkii has taken the filmmaking world by storm. But what are the realities of using it to shoot video, and how do you get the best from the camera? Join us and our award-winning director/cameraman for an introduction to the camera and kit, including top tips on getting the most from the 5d aesthetically, choosing and using specialised lenses, the challenges and tricks for recording sound, and the different applications – from observational to undercover filming.
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09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to Budgeting Skills
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for production secretaries, production co-ordinators, producers and anyone who needs to know more about what goes into a budget and why.
Trainer - Sam Moor.
This taster aims to give people tips and strategies for creating an accurate budget for programmes and other similar formatted projects including multiplatform. There will be a mini practical exercise, 20 top tips and a quick guide to successful negotiating. Run by an experienced Production Manager, who has worked in many different genres and styles of production. This is about the construction of clear and accurate budgets no matter where you work or what it’s for.
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09:30 - 10:30 Sweating Your Assets - MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: Sweating Your Assets - Shine’s joint MD Jamie Munroe talks making money from your brand.
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09:30 - 10:30 Being Human - MASTERCLASS
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NFTS: BEING HUMAN with Nic Morris - Nic Morris BSC is an experienced Director of Photography working in Feature Films, Television and Commercials. Combining creativity with a sound technical base, awards include the San Sebastian Silver Sea Shell for Best Photography and a nomination for Best Cinematography by the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC), for “Firelight” (Buena Vista). Commercials include D&AD nominations for Best Photography, also Cannes Grand Prix winners, along with other award-winning commercials and promos. Nic is involved in technical innovation with film stocks, HD, and Post-Production software development complemented by extensive experience of shooting live action for CGI. His credits include: Being Human, Superstorm, Spooks, The Outsiders, Stingray, Stories of Lost Souls, Turn of the Screw, Without You and Before You Go.
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09:30 - 11:00 Using Music Creatively in Programmes
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PRACTICAL session provided by ShortCourses@NFTS. This workshop is for any producers or directors who have an interest in music or any budding director who wants to make sure they get the music right. Course Tutor - Julian Hamlin. Do you feel that you leave music to the last minute – not sure how much you need, where it should go, when it’s too much? Composer Julian Hamlin (Cutting Edge, Katie Piper: My Beautiful Face) leads this workshop to help you learn how to work with composers, understand how music can enhance your film and why music shouldn’t be left to the last minute. This workshop is a great opportunity to ask questions of a composer and understand the questions you need to ask before you select or commission music for your film.
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09:30 - 11:00 FCP for Multi-Skilling Producers
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is aimed at anyone wanting to learn desktop editing - from researchers and APs needing to produce rough cuts of recces to senior P/Ds. Edit a taster in just 90 minutes! This hands-on workshop aimed at multi-skilling programme-makers will give an engaging introduction to the basics of cutting taster tapes and short films using Final Cut Pro. Each participant will get the chance to edit a short film in order to get an overview of the software workspace and interface, including learning how to choose and arrange clips, insert and trim them on the timeline, basic colour correction and effects, sound mixing and export. Taught by an award-winning editor, participants will also gain insights into how to build sequences and the editor’s craft.
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09:30 - 11:00 Excel - Data Analysis
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Session for anyone who collects and works with lists of information in Excel and wants to save time finding and reporting on it. Course Tutor - Kym Rawlings. At the end of the session you will be able to:
fool Excel into thinking it’s a database - sort, filter, hide and total your data to find the information you need quickly and easily; learn how to report on lists of information so people can see only what’s relevant;
viewing and printing tips for lists – never print 40 blank pages of a list again.
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09:30 - 11:00 Making an Impact
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Who is this session for? Anyone who feels they would benefit from making a greater impact in the workplace. Course Tutor - Laura Birrell. People with strong personal impact work easily with clients, stakeholders, colleagues etc. and tend to prosper in the workplace. This short interactive session looks at personal impact, focusing on the way in which we create an impression and influence others.
You will learn: how to make an instant impact; how the voice can be used as a tool to improve your influencing skills; how body language can be used to send strong signals to a room, and how you can use it to your advantage; how your appearance can do some of the hard work for you; how to appear cool and confident, even when you are feeling nervous or unsure of yourself.
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09:30 - 11:30 Avid AMA (Avid Media Access)
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PRACTICAL session provided by VET Training. Session for Avid editors, assistants and support people. Course Tutor - Andrew Pearson.
Hands-on session.
Experience genuinely instant access to tapeless media.
RED / P2 / XDCAM / 5D / 7D / Quicktime.
Find out how to manage the post-production processes involved.
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09:30 - 11:30 After Effects Expresso
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PRACTICAL session provided by Ravensbourne Skillset Media Academy. This session is aimed at people who have some experience of working in other graphics applications such as Final Cut, Premiere, Photoshop etc., but have limited experience of After Effects. Course Tutor - Paul Mumford. Using a single project case study, director and animator Paul Mumford will take you through a hands-on animation exercise. You will work through the project in manageable steps, helping you to build a picture of the fundamental concepts of producing animation work for broadcast and other media. This will be a fun and hands-on way for you to be introduced to some of the basic functionality and interfaces in After Effects. Always wanted to learn to animate? Now’s your chance...
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09:30 - 12:30 How to Develop and Pitch Factual TV Ideas
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PRACTICAL session provided by Women in Film and TV. Session for researchers, assistant producers, producers or directors who want to pitch their own ideas to TV companies or channels. Course Tutor - Nicola Lees. Commissioners give fewer than 1 in 100 programme proposals a second glance: how can you make yours grab their attention? This session distills more than ten years' experience and interviews with fifty top international producers and commissioners to reveal the insider development tricks and pitching secrets no one ever teaches you. Find out how what initially turns buyers on to an idea – and what guarantees that a proposal will get turned down before you’ve finished your pitch.
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09:30 - 12:30 Multi-Camera Music
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Who is this session for? You must have working knowledge of studio/OB galleries, directing experience (single/multi-cam) and a keen interest in music!
Studio Director Tony Gregory introduces techniques and systems for multi-camera shooting of music performance.
The director’s job is to capture and convey the atmosphere and emotion of a performance for the viewers. The job of coordinating cameras, crew and a live cut requires vision, discipline and quick thinking. The vision has to be shared with the crew so that they work cohesively to produce good results. This session is a practical, hands-on but brief taster of the full course, but will genuinely advance your know-how, and will end with a chance to shoot a band in the studio.
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09:45 - 10:15 Presenter Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. For anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own presenting skills and some tips on how to improve them, though it will help with working with presenters too. Course Tutor - Julian Worricker. Do you wonder if you have what it takes to be a presenter? Can you be yourself on a microphone and in front of the cameras? Can you engage a critical and fickle audience? Spend 30 minutes reviewing your own broadcast material with BBC presenter Julian Worricker, familiar to fans of You and Yours on Radio 4, and also on the News Channel. He’ll offer you honest feedback and tips on how to be your best on air.
NB You must bring your own material on DVD or memory stick or your session will be given to someone else.
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09:45 - 10:45 How to Get Really Useful Feedback
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. For anyone who wants tips on getting useful feedback on the programmes they’ve made or contributed to from the people they work for, whether on contract or as a freelance. Tutor - Fiona Anderson. How do you get really useful feedback from busy execs? So often you get no feedback at all, or a bland 'It was fine, thanks very much.' But what you really want is something specific about your great contribution that you can quote on your CV. Or if things went wrong, you want to know exactly how to get it right next time. Fiona Anderson teaches BBC journalists how to get feedback and she trains editors and execs in how to give it. So come and learn her tips in an interactive session.
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09:45 - 10:45 Developing Cross-Platform Projects
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PRACTICAL session provided by Goldsmiths Skillset Media Academy. This course is for Media professionals: executives, producers, assistant producers, project managers and other production team members of TV, digital media, interactive companies aiming to address multiplatform editorial content, design, development and commissioning.
Course Tutor - Mike Flood Page. This will be an introduction for participants to understanding the development and delivery of cross-platform projects with focus on the role of digital media in relation to broadcast. This session will introduce the approach to Creative Cross-platform Development; Business Models; Broadcaster Strategies; Commissioning; Multi-Platform Production and Project Processes; Marketing and Distribution; new and emerging platforms including Mobile, Video On Demand and Connected TV.
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09:45 - 11:45 Intro to BBC Lighting & Safety
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This session is for anyone who uses mains lighting but is unaware of BS7909, the British Standard “Code of Practice for Temporary Electrical Systems for Entertainment and Related Purposes”. Course Tutor - Ian Hider. In today's 'No win, no fee' society it’s worth knowing what you should do.
By sharing top tips, myth busting and using practical demonstrations our trainer, an experienced lighting camera operator, will promote good practice and highlight your responsibilities.
This course is an introduction to lighting safety, an awareness of the BBC safe system of work and BS7909; it alone does not give competency.
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10:00 - 11:00 What Social Media Can Do for You
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Session for any journalist or producer interested in finding out about courses on how Social Media and sophisticated internet tools can help you find original content and case studies, and to build relationships with audiences. Course Tutor - Claire Wardle.
Want lots of original content and case studies and contributors from new audiences? Want an instant way to track breaking news? Ever thought of trying Social Media? This session will show you how to find new material and build relationships with the 620 million people on Facebook and 190 million on Twitter as well as on numerous other social networks that are essential aides to journalists and producers in 2011.
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10:00 - 11:00 Food for Thought
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Course Tutor - Creative Network Facilitators. Session for anyone interested in finding new solutions to "old" problems.
Bored with coming up with the same, tired old concepts? Frustrated because the competition always seems to have better ideas? Have we got something for you!
We’re offering you four stimulus tools to try out during the workshop. They’ll rearrange your brain, unlock your true potential and maximise your creativity.
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10:00 - 11:00 CV Workshop
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PRACTICAL session provided by Think BIGGER! This session is for researchers, APs, production co-ordinators, production managers, PDs, series producers. Course Tutor - Nina Bhagwat.
Is your CV opening doors for you? Think BIGGER! is offering 1to1 sessions for freelancers looking to give their CV a spring clean. During the half hour sessions we will offer bespoke practical advice and guidance on how to make the right impression with your CV, and how to avoid standing out for the wrong reasons.
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10:00 - 11:00 Business Skills for Freelancers
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund/David Thomas. This workshop is for experienced freelancers and those just starting out. It's relevant to anyone who'd rather hide under the duvet than sort out their paperwork or chase late payments. This workshop gives you tips on how to keep your finances under control, how to get paid and how not to waste your precious time on paperwork. There'll be examples, handouts and access to some downloadable templates.
This is a taster session for the full day workshops that David Thomas runs for freelances around the UK. David focuses on the media and entertainment industries, working regularly with unions such as BECTU, as well as former BBC and ITV staff going freelance.
David has been a journalist, broadcaster and trainer for 30 years.
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10:00 - 11:00 Cross-Platform Story-Telling
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
This session is for TV and digital media producers, directors, writers, and content developers. Course Tutor - Sean Coleman. This ITF workshop develops the storytelling and writing skills of TV and digital media producers, directors and writers across a range of platforms and genres.
Today’s short interactive taster session will use a selection of case studies to explore what we mean by transmedia storytelling and what tools we need to develop as writers and producers to excel in this medium.
Sean Coleman is a screenwriter and producer of content, especially for digital platforms. He recently executive produced online drama series Cell, and Kirill for MSN at Endemol.
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10:00 - 11:00 Hands-On Guide to Facebook for Broadcast Brands
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
There have been many recent changes in editorial policy around managing and moderating Facebook pages. You might use Facebook a lot, but are you confident running a fan page? Do you know how to add words to the moderation blocklist? Do you know what to do when other fan pages spam your fan page? Or what fan pages you should Like? This course gives an overview of how to run a Facebook page for your brand.
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10:00 - 11:00 Digital Production Partnership - MASTERCLASS
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Digital Production Partnership: digital production - a rough guide to tapeless shooting - an opportunity for the production community to share the latest digital production techniques to help ease the transition from tape to file-based working. Panel will include Donna Mulvey Jones (Maverick), Emma Riley (Head of Production Technology at Mentorn Media) and Ian Wagdin (Production Innovation Executive at BBC).
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10:00 - 11:00 Legal Briefs
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This session is for Creative teams and others needing an introduction to the main legal issues involved in producing material for broadcast or the web.
Course Tutor - Kevin Steele.
What are the risks involved when talking about the misdeeds of others?
How deeply can you delve into someone’s private life?
Is it OK to use a photo from someone’s Facebook page?
What can you say about someone appearing in court?
What is “the public interest”?
This course aims to raise awareness of situations where content producers and others in the creative process need to pause and think about the material they are planning to use.
To avoid falling foul of the law you may need to seek further advice.
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10:00 - 11:30 Avid Audio RTAS (Audio Suite Plug-Ins for Pro Tools)
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PRACTICAL session provided by VET Training. This session is for Avid editors and Sound Dubbing Mixers using ProTools. Course Tutor - Mike Butler. Prepare your audio within Media Composer using RTAS and get smooth transfer to a ProTools sound dub.
RTAS is the Real Time Audio Suite technology brought over from ProTools. There are numerous effects which can be applied on a track by track basis for either finished sound within the suite or in preparation for transfer to a dub.
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10:00 - 11:30 Shooting & Directing with the Canon XF305 - How to Make a Web Clip in 90 mins flat!
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is aimed at anyone comfortable with shooting using small, handheld cameras, and wanting to learn more about this great new camera and shooting for the web. Tapeless-phobic? Still using a ZI? Baffled by how videos ge onto that interweb-thingy? Now all your questions will be answered (time permitting!) in just 90 minutes. This taster class will teach participants the basic set-up for the Canon XF305 - the new HD camcorder that's fast becoming the TV's workhorse- help overcome any fears of shooting tapelessly and show how to back up footage and upload it to the web. This is a fully hands-on course, taught by an award-winning filmmaker, which will involve participants in shooting a short film, so familiarity and experience with DV cameras or similar is essential.
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10:00 - 12:00 Shoot & Edit a Basic Sequence
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This session is for self shooters who need to know the right shots that will cut into an editable sequence. Previous shooting and editing knowledge is useful but not essential.
This session is a brief introduction to shooting and editing a basic sequence. Delegates will contribute to the shooting of a piece of action and then have a go at cutting it together using Final Cut Pro.
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10:00 - 13:00 Directing Actors in Reconstructions
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PRACTICAL session provided by Short Courses@NFTS. This workshop is aimed at factual programme-makers who wish to use reconstruction in their films. Course Tutor - Chris Durlacher.
Ever daunted by the prospect of directing actors in your documentary? Reconstructions can often look stilted, underfunded or frankly naff. This workshop aims to get you thinking about your reconstruction and how to make it enhance your film. With director Chris Durlacher, you’ll learn how to work with actors, plan your scenes and understand the basics of drama to achieve your goals.
Chris Durlacher has been a writer and director for over twenty years. His George Orwell - A Life In Pictures won many international awards including an EMMY. He followed this up with more dramatised bio-pics: In Praise of Hardcore about critic Kenneth Tynan, starring Rob Brydon, and The Yellow House about van Gogh, starring John Simm.
He then directed a horror film for the BBC, The Haunted Airman, starring Robert Pattinson. His other documentaries include The Undercover Diplomat, My Father the Bomb and Me and Bloody Foreigners, and more award-winners include The Riddle of the Tower, Snowball Earth, and Escape from Colditz.
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10:30 - 11:00 Presenter Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. For anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own presenting skills and some tips on how to improve them, though it will help with working with presenters too. Course Tutor - Julian Worricker. Do you wonder if you have what it takes to be a presenter? Can you be yourself on a microphone and in front of the cameras? Can you engage a critical and fickle audience? Spend 30 minutes reviewing your own broadcast material with BBC presenter Julian Worricker, familiar to fans of You and Yours on Radio 4, and also on the News Channel. He’ll offer you honest feedback and tips on how to be your best on air.
NB You must bring your own material on DVD or memory stick or your session will be given to someone else.
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10:30 - 12:00 Observational Shooting Skills
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PRACTICAL session provided by Skills2Film. This session is for delegates who are likely to have had some experience of shooting, but who now find themselves wanting more knowledge so that they can advance their shooting technique and their own confidence. Course Tutor - Jeremy Humphries.
So many questions to ask and nobody to answer them? Do you want to confidently shoot observational sequences, know who to film when five people are talking at once and know what crossing the line means?
Jeremy Humphries is an observational documentary cameraman of over 25 years' experience: on location one day, running workshops the next. He brings his direct experience to this workshop to discuss topics that include: shooting scenes that edit, the use of the lens, depth of field and shooting with available light.
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10:45 - 11:45 Multi-Camera - MASTERCLASS
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Studio Director Tony Gregory introduces techniques and systems for multi-camera shooting of music performance. This session is for anyone who is interested in how a director and studio crew set about the complex task of capturing a music performance. The director’s job is to capture and convey the atmosphere and emotion of a performance for the viewers. The job of co-ordinating cameras, crew and a live cut requires vision, discipline and quick thinking. The vision has to be shared with the crew so that they work cohesively to produce good results. This session gives an overview of what shooting music entails, with some clips and examples, and a short demonstration of a studio at work, filming a band.
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11:00 - 12:00 Introduction to Budgeting Skills
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for production secretaries, production co-ordinators, producers and anyone who needs to know more about what goes into a budget and why.
Trainer - Sam Moor.
This taster aims to give people tips and strategies for creating an accurate budget for programmes and other similar formatted projects including multiplatform. There will be a mini practical exercise, 20 top tips and a quick guide to successful negotiating. Run by an experienced Production Manager, who has worked in many different genres and styles of production. This is about the construction of clear and accurate budgets no matter where you work or what it’s for.
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11:00 - 12:00 The Comedy Store - MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: The Comedy Store - Stuart Murphy, Director of Programmes for SKY 1, 2, Pick, SKY Atlantic and Director of Commissioning, SKY Entertainment Channels. Talks comedy and all things SKY.
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11:00 - 12:00 Sound Skills for Self Shooters
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
This session is for any self shooter who wants to improve their audio skills.
Join our specialist trainer, a former audio supervisor and location recordist, in a session designed to help you to choose, set up and use your equipment to gather clear and clean, high quality audio. We will demystify the technology and terminology and offer a wealth of top tips and real world techniques.
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13:00 - 14:00 The Future of Docs - MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: The Future of Docs - is the future bright, is the future documentary? Our panel of producers discusses the future of broadcast documentaries. Panel to include Maxine Watson (Commissioner, BBC2, BBC1), Richard McKerrow (MD, Love Productions), Stuart Cabb (MD, Plum Pictures).
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11:00 - 12:30 Words & Pictures: The Art of Commentary
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their commentary writing and learn from a master of the craft what works and why. Principally aimed at those in factual, but relevant to all. Course Tutor - Patrick Uden. Writing effective commentary is one of the most challenging aspects of programme-making. This hour-long seminar, taught by Patrick Uden, executive producer of The Apprentice and The Restaurant, will offer participants an insight into the essential ingredients of writing in a way that complements and enhances pictures and sync, including the type of language to use, and the importance of rhythm, structure and layout. As well as practical tips, the session will look at the evolution of commentary through case studies, and provide a framework for understanding the why and how of writing tight and impactful scripts.
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11:15 - 11:45 Presenter Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. For anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own presenting skills and some tips on how to improve them, though it will help with working with presenters too. Course Tutor - Julian Worricker. Do you wonder if you have what it takes to be a presenter? Can you be yourself on a microphone and in front of the cameras? Can you engage a critical and fickle audience? Spend 30 minutes reviewing your own broadcast material with BBC presenter Julian Worricker, familiar to fans of You and Yours on Radio 4, and also on the News Channel. He’ll offer you honest feedback and tips on how to be your best on air.
NB You must bring your own material on DVD or memory stick or your session will be given to someone else.
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11:15 - 12:15 Business Skills for Freelancers
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund/David Thomas. This workshop is for experienced freelancers and those just starting out. It's relevant to anyone who'd rather hide under the duvet than sort out their paperwork or chase late payments. This workshop gives you tips on how to keep your finances under control, how to get paid and how not to waste your precious time on paperwork. There'll be examples, handouts and access to some downloadable templates.
This is a taster session for the full day workshops that David Thomas runs for freelances around the UK. David focuses on the media and entertainment industries, working regularly with unions such as BECTU, as well as former BBC and ITV staff going freelance.
David has been a journalist, broadcaster and trainer for 30 years.
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11:15 - 12:15 What Social Media Can Do for You
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Session for any journalist or producer interested in finding out about courses on how Social Media and sophisticated internet tools can help you find original content and case studies, and to build relationships with audiences. Course Tutor - Claire Wardle.
Want lots of original content and case studies and contributors from new audiences? Want an instant way to track breaking news? Ever thought of trying Social Media? This session will show you how to find new material and build relationships with the 620 million people on Facebook and 190 million on Twitter as well as on numerous other social networks that are essential aides to journalists and producers in 2011.
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11:15 - 12:15 How to Get Really Useful Feedback
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. For anyone who wants tips on getting useful feedback on the programmes they’ve made or contributed to from the people they work for, whether on contract or as a freelance. Tutor - Fiona Anderson. How do you get really useful feedback from busy execs? So often you get no feedback at all, or a bland 'It was fine, thanks very much.' But what you really want is something specific about your great contribution that you can quote on your CV. Or if things went wrong, you want to know exactly how to get it right next time. Fiona Anderson teaches BBC journalists how to get feedback and she trains editors and execs in how to give it. So come and learn her tips in an interactive session.
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11:15 - 12:15 Hands-On Guide to Twitter for Broadcast Brands
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
How to set up a Twitter feed for your brand, how to upload content, what to share, compliance, BBC moderation guidelines, good practice for BBC audience-facing social media.
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11:15 - 12:15 CV Workshop
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PRACTICAL session provided by Think BIGGER! This session is for researchers, APs, production co-ordinators, production managers, PDs, series producers. Course Tutor - Nina Bhagwat.
Is your CV opening doors for you? Think BIGGER! is offering 1to1 sessions for freelancers looking to give their CV a spring clean. During the half hour sessions we will offer bespoke practical advice and guidance on how to make the right impression with your CV, and how to avoid standing out for the wrong reasons.
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11:15 - 12:15 Entrepreneurial Modelling
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PRACTICAL session provided by Goldsmiths Skillset Media Academy.
This session is for media professionals acquiring techniques that enable them to decide what their “core” business is; those seeking new opportunities for their work and help determining its commercial value.
The programme will give an overview of how creatives can operate as entrepreneurs, using their creative talents to maximise the impact of their ideas and work. This taster session will introduce the concept of taking an idea through to production, distribution and how to negotiate each element.
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11:15 - 12:45 Intro to Myers Briggs
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This taster session is ideal for anyone who feels they would benefit from understanding their own MBTI preferences and would like to gain better self-awareness and improve working and personal relationships in a positive and constructive way. Course Tutor - Karen Moran. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® (MBTI) is a personality assessment which helps explain why we think and behave as we do. In this taster session, you will have the opportunity to discover your own MBTI ‘type’ which will: help you identify your unique gifts; enhance understanding of yourself, your motivations, your natural strengths and potential areas for growth; appreciate people who are different from you!
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11:30 - 12:30 Cross-Platform Story-Telling
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
This session is for TV and digital media producers, directors, writers, and content developers. Course Tutor - Sean Coleman. This ITF workshop develops the storytelling and writing skills of TV and digital media producers, directors and writers across a range of platforms and genres.
Today’s short interactive taster session will use a selection of case studies to explore what we mean by transmedia storytelling and what tools we need to develop as writers and producers to excel in this medium.
Sean Coleman is a screenwriter and producer of content, especially for digital platforms. He recently executive produced online drama series Cell, and Kirill for MSN at Endemol.
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11:30 - 12:30 Legal Briefs
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This session is for Creative teams and others needing an introduction to the main legal issues involved in producing material for broadcast or the web.
Course Tutor - Kevin Steele.
What are the risks involved when talking about the misdeeds of others?
How deeply can you delve into someone’s private life?
Is it OK to use a photo from someone’s Facebook page?
What can you say about someone appearing in court?
What is “the public interest”?
This course aims to raise awareness of situations where content producers and others in the creative process need to pause and think about the material they are planning to use.
To avoid falling foul of the law you may need to seek further advice.
5 tickets
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11:30 - 13:00 FCP for Multi-Skilling Producers
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is aimed at anyone wanting to learn desktop editing - from researchers and APs needing to produce rough cuts of recces to senior P/Ds. Edit a taster in just 90 minutes! This hands-on workshop aimed at multi-skilling programme-makers will give an engaging introduction to the basics of cutting taster tapes and short films using Final Cut Pro. Each participant will get the chance to edit a short film in order to get an overview of the software workspace and interface, including learning how to choose and arrange clips, insert and trim them on the timeline, basic colour correction and effects, sound mixing and export. Taught by an award-winning editor, participants will also gain insights into how to build sequences and the editor’s craft.
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11:30 - 13:00 Sell it! Pitching Workshop
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. For all programme-makers who want to improve their pitching skills and sell with confidence. Course Tutor - Frank Ash. So you’ve got a great idea – so what! If you can’t sell it, it’s worthless. This industry is littered with sad stories of how great, new ideas never saw the light of day because 'the Commissioners didn’t get it'. But is this their fault or yours?
This is a practical workshop stuffed full of tools and techniques to prepare, structure and present your pitches to give your brilliant ideas a fighting chance.
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11:30 - 13:00 Using Music Creatively in Programmes
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PRACTICAL session provided by ShortCourses@NFTS. This workshop is for any producers or directors who have an interest in music or any budding director who wants to make sure they get the music right. Course Tutor - Julian Hamlin. Do you feel that you leave music to the last minute – not sure how much you need, where it should go, when it’s too much? Composer Julian Hamlin (Cutting Edge, Katie Piper: My Beautiful Face) leads this workshop to help you learn how to work with composers, understand how music can enhance your film and why music shouldn’t be left to the last minute. This workshop is a great opportunity to ask questions of a composer and understand the questions you need to ask before you select or commission music for your film.
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11:30 - 13:00 Excel – Creating Basic Formulas
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for anyone who needs or wants to use Excel to take some of the pain out of figure work or budgets and present them in a way that works.
At the end of the session you will be able to: use Excel to perform calculations from the simple to the more complicated – so you never have to pick up a calculator again!; learn how to spot how other people’s formulas work and what to do when they go wrong; find information on all the Formulas that Excel has – and how to use them.
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11:45 - 13:45 Avid AMA (Avid Media Access)
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PRACTICAL session provided by VET Training. Session for Avid editors, assistants and support people. Course Tutor - Andrew Pearson.
Hands-on session.
Experience genuinely instant access to tapeless media.
RED / P2 / XDCAM / 5D / 7D / Quicktime.
Find out how to manage the post-production processes involved.
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11:45 - 13:45 Video Streaming
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PRACTICAL session provided by Southhampton Solent Skillset Media Academy. The Interactive Narrative course is aimed at broadcast media professionals looking to extend their understanding of multiplatform production, and online and interactive creatives seeking to develop new models of production. Course Tutor - Steve Hogg.
This Video Streaming taster gives you the opportunity to advance your knowledge and develop skills in streaming media and online demand video technologies for both web and mobile devices. It will be a practical, hands-on workshop that looks at encoding and publishing video to the web, including to websites such as YouTube and Vimeo as well as a standard html web page. The workshop will also look at encoding for mobile devices such as the iPad.
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12:00 - 12:30 Presenter Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. For anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own presenting skills and some tips on how to improve them, though it will help with working with presenters too. Course Tutor - Julian Worricker. Do you wonder if you have what it takes to be a presenter? Can you be yourself on a microphone and in front of the cameras? Can you engage a critical and fickle audience? Spend 30 minutes reviewing your own broadcast material with BBC presenter Julian Worricker, familiar to fans of You and Yours on Radio 4, and also on the News Channel. He’ll offer you honest feedback and tips on how to be your best on air.
NB You must bring your own material on DVD or memory stick or your session will be given to someone else.
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12:00 - 13:00 Roger Graef - MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: Roger Graef masterclass - It’s a Question of Ethics. Roger Graef is best known for his pioneering work exposing closed institutions from ministries to courts and prisons. His groundbreaking films include the Thames Valley Police, which helped change the way the police deal with rape victims, and In Search of Law and Order, an exploration of radical new ways to change juvenile rehabilitation. More recently, he has exec-produced many award-winning documentaries.
In this session using clips from films by Roger and his company, Films of Record, Roger will explore ethical dilemmas. What terms should you use to get access, and how can you satisfy the broadcaster and protect the people you are filming?
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12:00 - 13:30 Shooting & Directing with the Canon XF305 - How to Make a Web Clip in 90 Mins Flat!
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is aimed at anyone comfortable with shooting using small, handheld cameras, and wanting to learn more about this great new camera and shooting for the web. Tapeless-phobic? Still using a ZI? Baffled by how videos ge onto that interweb-thingy? Now all your questions will be answered (time permitting!) in just 90 minutes. This taster class will teach participants the basic set-up for the Canon XF305 - the new HD camcorder that's fast becoming the TV's workhorse- help overcome any fears of shooting tapelessly and show how to back up footage and upload it to the web. This is a fully hands-on course, taught by an award-winning filmmaker, which will involve participants in shooting a short film, so familiarity and experience with DV cameras or similar is essential.
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12:00 - 14:00 Colour Correction - MASTERCLASS
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Session provided by VET Training. This session is for FCP on-line editors or technicians supporting on-lines. The session focuses on taking a sequence from FCP to Color, and returning to FCP.
We provide a few tips to help you make it work.
Prepare a sequence from Final Cut Pro into Color, navigate within a Unix file system, grade, render out and return back to Final Cut Pro.
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12:30 - 13:30 What Social Media Can Do for You
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Session for any journalist or producer interested in finding out about courses on how Social Media and sophisticated internet tools can help you find original content and case studies, and to build relationships with audiences. Course Tutor - Claire Wardle.
Want lots of original content and case studies and contributors from new audiences? Want an instant way to track breaking news? Ever thought of trying Social Media? This session will show you how to find new material and build relationships with the 620 million people on Facebook and 190 million on Twitter as well as on numerous other social networks that are essential aides to journalists and producers in 2011.
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12:30 - 13:30 Introduction to Budgeting Skills
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for production secretaries, production co-ordinators, producers and anyone who needs to know more about what goes into a budget and why.
Trainer - Sam Moor.
This taster aims to give people tips and strategies for creating an accurate budget for programmes and other similar formatted projects including multiplatform. There will be a mini practical exercise, 20 top tips and a quick guide to successful negotiating. Run by an experienced Production Manager, who has worked in many different genres and styles of production. This is about the construction of clear and accurate budgets no matter where you work or what it’s for.
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12:30 - 14:30 Mobile Media
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PRACTICAL session provided by Birmingham City University Skillset Media Academy.
The session is for anyone in TV or film production who is interested in discovering what the emerging mobile channel can do.
Mobile phones are the most widespread technology ever. They also represent a broad range of technologies and channels: from SMS to Apps to web. What challenges do mobile devices create for television? With over 80% of people using their phones whilst watching TV, what are the engagement issues for broadcasters? What are the opportunities from mobile both as a platform and an interaction tool for TV?
This two hour taster session will introduce these issues and look at how television and mobile can work together to create a rich, transmedia experience.
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13:00 - 14:00 Funding - MASTERCLASS
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Sheffield Doc/ Fest - Worldwide View - how to get international doc and crossover media funding and who to get it from. Attendees will be able to update their knowledge on the contemporary international market and will leave with plans for how to navigate funding for their projects. This is a practical guide for factual programme-makers and businesses in the international funding of documentaries and factual media across all platforms.
Led by Heather Croall, Festival Director, and Karolina Lidin, exec producer of the MeetMarket pitching opportunity at Doc/Fest.
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11:00 - 12:00 The TV Collective - Casting MASTERCLASS
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The TV Collective: Casting - do you want the competitive edge when it comes to sourcing contributors? Do you need a little inspiration when it comes to finding interesting characters or developing programme ideas? Or do you want to pitch ideas about the lives of characters we rarely see on TV? The TV Collective masterclass in generating contributor and programme ideas could have the answers. Hosted by The TV Collective, Sarah Elign Exec Producer from Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies and Riffi Khan, an international consultant in production formats.
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13:00 - 15:00 Shoot & Edit a Basic Sequence
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PRACTICAL session from the BBC Academy.
Session for self shooters who need to know the right shots that will cut successfully into a sequence. Previous shooting and editing knowledge is useful but not essential.
This session is a brief introduction to shooting and editing a basic sequence. Delegates will contribute to the shooting of a piece of action and then have a go at cutting it together using Final Cut Pro.
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13:00 - 15:00 Intro to BBC Lighting & Safety
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This session is for anyone who uses mains lighting but is unaware of BS7909, the British Standard “Code of Practice for Temporary Electrical Systems for Entertainment and Related Purposes”. Course Tutor - Ian Hider. In today's 'No win, no fee' society it’s worth knowing what you should do.
By sharing top tips, myth busting and using practical demonstrations our trainer, an experienced lighting camera operator, will promote good practice and highlight your responsibilities.
This course is an introduction to lighting safety, an awareness of the BBC safe system of work and BS7909; it alone does not give competency.
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13:15 - 14:15 Dealing with Difficult People
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
Session for production managers, team managers, or anyone who would like to develop their people management skills in the media industry.
Using TV-based case studies, exercises and participants’ own experiences, this ITF seminar will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses in a conflict situation, and develop the skills you need to manage difficult situations.
Today’s short taster session will focus on assertive verbal behaviour – how to appear calm when you really don’t feel it!
Sue Ahern is a former BBC radio & TV producer who was Senior Training Manager for BBC Radio before becoming a partner in Creative People, a training and coaching consultancy which supports and develops people in creative businesses.
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13:15 - 14:15 CV Workshop
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PRACTICAL session provided by Think BIGGER! This session is for researchers, APs, production co-ordinators, production managers, PDs, series producers. Course Tutor - Nina Bhagwat.
Is your CV opening doors for you? Think BIGGER! is offering 1to1 sessions for freelancers looking to give their CV a spring clean. During the half hour sessions we will offer bespoke practical advice and guidance on how to make the right impression with your CV, and how to avoid standing out for the wrong reasons.
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13:30 - 14:00 Voice Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
For anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own broadcast voice and some tips on how to improve it, though it will help with working with presenters too. What are the secrets of a good broadcast voice? If you want to know how to develop your on-air delivery, sign up for this 30 minute session. The College of Journalism’s voice coach, Elspeth Morrison, will review your own voice work with you and give you her tips on how to get the very best sound. It’ll help you produce presenters better too.
NB You must bring a recent recording of your voice on a CD, DVD or a memory stick - or your session will be given to someone else.
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13:30 - 14:30 Sound Skills for Self Shooters
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for any self shooter who wants to improve their audio skills.
Join our specialist trainer, a former audio supervisor and location recordist, in a session designed to help you to choose, set up and use your equipment to gather clear and clean, high quality audio. We will demystify the technology and terminology and offer a wealth of top tips and real world techniques
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13:30 - 14:30 Researchers' Survival Guide
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
This course is for runners and junior researchers. It’s also great for production assistants and more experienced researchers who want to validate their skills. This invaluable ITF workshop covers top tips for fast and efficient production research, including widening your sources of information, finding and assessing contributors, accuracy and fact checking, interviewing techniques, and writing briefs and proposals. Today’s short taster session will show you how to spot and pitch a good story. Pam Relton is an inspirational, experienced trainer with a background in factual production. As well as specialising in production research, she offers courses in creative thinking and production skills for the Indie Training Fund, the BBC Academy and leading independent media companies.
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13:30 - 15:00 Words & Pictures: The Art of Commentary
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their commentary writing and learn from a master of the craft what works and why. Principally aimed at those in factual, but relevant to all. Course Tutor - Patrick Uden. Writing effective commentary is one of the most challenging aspects of programme-making. This hour-long seminar, taught by Patrick Uden, executive producer of The Apprentice and The Restaurant, will offer participants an insight into the essential ingredients of writing in a way that complements and enhances pictures and sync, including the type of language to use, and the importance of rhythm, structure and layout. As well as practical tips, the session will look at the evolution of commentary through case studies, and provide a framework for understanding the why and how of writing tight and impactful scripts.
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13:30 - 16:30 Multi-Camera Directing - Music
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Who is this session for? You must have working knowledge of studio/OB galleries, directing experience (single/multi-cam) and a keen interest in music!
Studio Director Tony Gregory introduces techniques and systems for multi-camera shooting of music performance.
The director’s job is to capture and convey the atmosphere and emotion of a performance for the viewers. The job of coordinating cameras, crew and a live cut requires vision, discipline and quick thinking. The vision has to be shared with the crew so that they work cohesively to produce good results. This session is a practical, hands-on but brief taster of the full course, but will genuinely advance your know-how, and will end with a chance to shoot a band in the studio.
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13:45 - 14:45 Usefulness & Delight - The Key to Satisfying Audiences
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
We live in a world of connected devices. Your content is no longer confined to a single distribution platform but can exist across a myriad digital platforms, accessible to audiences on their terms.
We no longer need to think about ‘what content goes where?’ – it’s already everywhere. So how can we harness this explosion of possibility, understand what it is that content consumers want, and give them what they desire…without stuffing the budget.
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13:45 - 14:15 Data Protection for Productions
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Session for anyone who handles audience, contributor or staff data.
Data Protection breaches now carry a fine of up to £500,000. Come to a short briefing to find out what you need to do to avoid being in the firing line.
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14:00 - 15:30 Shooting HD on Location
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PRACTICAL session provided by Skills2Film. This workshop is ideal for those camera operators about to start shooting on HD and unsure of the enhanced technical possibilities that HD can offer them on the location.
Jeremy Humphries brings his experience as a DoP to discuss shooting HD on location. Based on a recent presenter-led shoot for BBC Television in Africa, Jeremy will discuss the practicalities and differences of shooting on HD compared to SD, how to handle exposure latitude, how to deal with 1080 lines of resolution, how to use depth of field, and why contrast can save your lighting bills. Present also will be some of the latest BBC-approved HD cameras. Jeremy will discuss the benefits of each camera, with emphasis on the move towards tapeless shooting and the consequent workflow requirements.
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14:00 - 15:30 Working with Children
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Anyone who has or may work with under 18s when making content or who is just interested!
It is not just those making children’s programmes who may end up working with children in broadcast. This course looks at the many issues that we have to take into consideration when dealing with the younger members of our audience. It will deal with some of the myths and dispel some of the fears as well as explaining how to establish a safe and creative environment by touching on issues such as good practice, licensing, consent and formal checks among others.
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14:00 - 15:30 Outlook - Managing Email Overload
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Sessions for anyone who struggles to cope with number of emails they receive and wants to find some simple solutions to deal with them effectively.
At the end of the session you will be able to: use simple techniques to keep your inbox under control and spend less time staring at your inbox screen; write and receive better emails – and learn when not to use it; find the emails that matter and set up a filing system that means you never lose that important information again.
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14:00 - 15:30 Interviewing Skills
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.Who is this session for? Any one who needs to interview others as part of their role. Course Tutor -Lorna Macdonald/ Lucy King. This session will enable participants to learn more about the interview and selection process and ensure the right person is recruited.
By the end of the sessions, participants will be able to:
Write a job description
Put together a short listing criteria
Prepare competence-based questions
Conduct an effective introduction to an interview
Gather and record behavioural evidence during an interview
Control the interview
Conduct an effective close to an interview
Evaluate and rate the evidence gathered in a consistent, objective and fair way
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14:00 - 16:00 Efficient Editing with Final Cut Pro
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. The session would be suited to beginners who wish to take their first editing steps and those with some basic editing experience who wish to improve their skills. Familiarity with a Mac would be useful but not essential. What is the most efficient way to edit with Final Cut Pro?
Which of its many editing tools and techniques are the best to use?
Led by an experienced industry professional and trainer, this session will give a brief introduction to Final Cut Pro and cover some basic editing techniques and shortcuts used by many industry professionals today.
During the session, delegates will have a hands-on opportunity to put these techniques into practice by putting together a basic sequence using tools and functions from this powerful industry-standard editing package.
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14:00 - 16:00 Interactive Narrative - Combining Storytelling with Participation
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PRACTICAL session provided by Yorkshire & Humber Skillset Media Academy. The Interactive Narrative course is aimed at broadcast media professionals looking to extend their understanding of multiplatform production, and online and interactive creatives seeking to develop new models of production. Course Tutor - Dr Carlton Reeve. This course explores the creative basis for multiplatform production – how to successfully combine presentation and audience participation across multiple media. The course uses case studies from broadcast, gaming and online to illustrate the ways we can combine story and play to create coherent and engaging experiences. It will cover the principle models of structuring interactive narrative that exploit the potential of the available formats.
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14:00 - 18:00 From Documentary to Drama
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PRACTICAL session provided by Short Courses@NFTS.
This workshop is aimed at established factual and documentary directors who are hoping to make a move into drama.
A number of British film directors got their start in documentary (e.g. Paul Greengrass, Kevin Macdonald). This workshop aims to show documentary directors routes into drama – what they need to think about, how the two genres differ for a director, and what the drama team looks like. It is a workshop aimed at demystifying the drama process and making it relevant for established documentary directors.
Chris Durlacher has been a writer and director for over twenty years. His George Orwell - A Life In Pictures won many international awards including an EMMY. He followed this up with more dramatised bio-pics: In Praise of Hardcore about critic Kenneth Tynan, starring Rob Brydon, and The Yellow House about van Gogh, starring John Simm.
He then directed a horror film for the BBC, The Haunted Airman, starring Robert Pattinson. His other documentaries include The Undercover Diplomat, My Father the Bomb and Me, Bloody Foreigners, and more award-winners include The Riddle of the Tower, Snowball Earth, and Escape From Colditz.
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14:00 - 18:00 Directing Actors in Reconstructions
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PRACTICAL session provided by Short Courses@NFTS. This workshop is aimed at factual programme-makers who wish to use reconstruction in their films. Course Tutor - Chris Durlacher.
Ever daunted by the prospect of directing actors in your documentary? Reconstructions can often look stilted, underfunded or frankly naff. This workshop aims to get you thinking about your reconstruction and how to make it enhance your film. With director Chris Durlacher, you’ll learn how to work with actors, plan your scenes and understand the basics of drama to achieve your goals.
Chris Durlacher has been a writer and director for over twenty years. His George Orwell - A Life In Pictures won many international awards including an EMMY. He followed this up with more dramatised bio-pics: In Praise of Hardcore about critic Kenneth Tynan, starring Rob Brydon, and The Yellow House about van Gogh, starring John Simm.
He then directed a horror film for the BBC, The Haunted Airman, starring Robert Pattinson. His other documentaries include The Undercover Diplomat, My Father the Bomb and Me and Bloody Foreigners, and more award-winners include The Riddle of the Tower, Snowball Earth, and Escape from Colditz.
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14:00 - 18:00 The Art of Interviewing
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
In this half day session, Today programme presenter Sarah Montague and Hardtalk producer Bridget Osborne look at how to get the best out of an interview. Whether it's a three minute live on a breaking story or a pre-recorded long form, structured interview, there are some key tips which help you to achieve a successful outcome. Please come having heard the Today programme on that day, as Sarah will be presenting and we will discuss some of the interviews from that morning's show.
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14:15 - 14:45 Voice Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
For anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own broadcast voice and some tips on how to improve it, though it will help with working with presenters too. What are the secrets of a good broadcast voice? If you want to know how to develop your on-air delivery, sign up for this 30 minute session. The College of Journalism’s voice coach, Elspeth Morrison, will review your own voice work with you and give you her tips on how to get the very best sound. It’ll help you produce presenters better too.
NB You must bring a recent recording of your voice on a CD, DVD or a memory stick - or your session will be given to someone else.
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14:15 - 15:45 Story-Telling
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This session is for programme-makers interested in honing and improving their storytelling skills. Course Tutor - Hazel Marshall. This interactive and practical workshop explores how compelling stories in any medium work, and provides the tools and techniques to find, strengthen and develop stories to engage and excite the audience.
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14:30 - 15:30 HD for Self Shooters
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Course Tutor - Jane Newing. This session is for any elf shooter who is about to or has recently made the move to HD. An overview of some of the most widely used self-shoot HD cameras, including examples from the Sony 'EX' range and the Canon XF305. Top tips on moving from SD to HD and making the transition from tape to tapeless production workflows. You will be guided through the set-up options on the cameras and be given insights as to why you might choose one model over another by a specialist trainer with a wealth of both technical and practical production experience.
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14:30 - 15:30 Advanced Internet Research
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
This session is for programme-makers; journalists and researchers are both welcome. This course is for anyone involved in professional research on the Net.
The advanced Internet Research course delves the murky depths of online investigation. In this taster session you’ll see some of the ways to manipulate search engines and trace who’s behind mysterious websites. You get a chance to ask questions and demystify the complicated technical aspects of Internet research.
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14:30 - 15:30 How to Make it as an Indie - MASTERCLASS
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PACT: Indie-pendence - how to make it as an Indie. Aimed at those wishing to find out all they need to know about both the business and creative side of forming and running their own independent production company. Participants will receive tips and advice from the industry’s key Indie figures on how they formed, managed and succeeded in running their own Indie. Particular focus will be placed on starting and maintaining an Indie in the current economic downturn in a climate of falling commissioning levels and shrinking budgets.
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14:30 - 16:30 Colour Correction - MASTERCLASS
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VET: This session is for FCP on-line editors or technicians supporting on-lines. Course Outline - the session focuses on taking a sequence from FCP to Color, and returning to FCP.
We provide a few tips to help you make it work.
Prepare a sequence from Final Cut Pro into Color, navigate within a Unix file system, grade, render out and return back to Final Cut Pro.
Course Outline The session focuses on taking a sequence from FCP to Color, and returning to FCP.
We provide a few tips to help you make it work.
Prepare a sequence from Final Cut Pro into Color, navigate within a Unix file system, grade, render out and return back to Final Cut Pro.
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14:45 - 15:45 Multi-Camera - MASTERCLASS
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Studio Director Tony Gregory introduces techniques and systems for multi-camera shooting of music performance. The director’s job is to capture and convey the atmosphere and emotion of a performance for the viewers. The job of co-ordinating cameras, crew and a live cut requires vision, discipline and quick thinking. The vision has to be shared with the crew so that they work cohesively to produce good results. This session gives an overview of what shooting music entails, with some clips and examples, and a short demonstration of a studio at work, filming a band.
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15:00 - 15:30 Voice Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
This session is for anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own broadcast voice and some tips on how to improve it, though it will help with working with presenters too.
What are the secrets of a good broadcast voice? If you want to know how to develop your on air delivery, sign up for this 30 minute session. The College of Journalism’s voice coach, Elspeth Morrison, will review your own voice work with you and give you her tips on how to get the very best sound. It’ll help you produce presenters better too.
NB You must bring a recent recording of your voice on a CD, DVD or a memory stick - or your session will be given to someone else.
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15:00 - 16:00 Generating Innovative Content
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
This session is for anyone involved in TV, film, animation and digital media production, who wants to enhance their creative thinking, generate ideas and, just as importantly, learn to focus them. This fast-paced, practical workshop gives participants the chance to learn and apply a range of different techniques to unleash creativity. You will also discover an innovation process to help you develop and focus your ideas. Today’s short but highly interactive taster session will show you how to generate ideas by challenging your current way of thinking to discover the twist.
Pam Relton is an inspirational, experienced trainer with a production background. As well as specialising in creative facilitation, she offers courses on researching and production skills for the Indie Training Fund, the BBC Academy and leading independent media companies.
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15:00 - 16:00 Freelance Training - Who Pays for Training? MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: Freelance Training - who is responsible and who pays? Come and talk to the industry’s leading independent production companies and Skillset and discuss with them the question on every freelancer’s lips. Panel will include Alex Fraser (Creative Director, Maverick), Graham Stuart (MD, SOTV), Kate O’Connor (Skillset).
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14:30 - 15:30 Minding Your Own Business - MASTERCLASS
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BECTU: Minding Your Own Business - a guide to contracts and employment status. This session will cover the myths and mysteries of contract law as it affects freelance and casual workers. It will cover written and verbal contracts; contracts of employment and contracts of service; breaches of contracts; and the ways in which you can enforce your contractual rights. The session will be led by Martin Spence, Assistant General Secretary at BECTU, the media and entertainment trade union. He has been representing and advising freelance and casual workers in the industry for over fifteen years.
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15:00 - 16:00 Let Me Entertain You - MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: Let Me Entertain You - how do we develop new entertainment/ talent shows post the dominance of Simon Cowell? The industry's top entertainment providers discuss this question, showcase their upcoming commissions, and more. Panel will include Duncan Gray (Head of Entertainment, SKY) and Katie Taylor (Head of Entertainment and Events, BBC).
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15:00 - 17:00 Future Media Platforms and Environments
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PRACTICAL session provided by Bournemouth Skillset Media Academy. This session is for those seeking to understand the changing roles of media producers and audiences going forward. No previous academic or technical expertise is necessary; however, familiarity with current interactive web platforms would be helpful. Course Tutor - Dr Kris Erickson. This workshop will introduce students to key developments in search engine technology. The workshop will discuss search engine optimisation as a marketing strategy for web content, as well as emergent intellectual property and privacy issues that arise as search becomes more embedded in our daily lives.
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15:00 - 17:00 Avid v5 & v5.5 - What's New?
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PRACTICAL session provided by VET Training. Who is this session for? Avid editors / Avid producers / editors. Avid post-production people. Course Tutor - Mike Butler. Hands-on session.
Learn about the changes to the Avid MC interface and how you can speed up your editing using the new tools e.g. Smart Tool, RTAS plug-ins, and developments to AMA.
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15:15 - 16:15 Usefulness & Delight - The Keys to Satisfying Audiences
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
We live in a world of connected devices. Your content is no longer confined to a single distribution platform but can exist across a myriad digital platforms, accessible to audiences on their terms.
We no longer need to think about ‘what content goes where?’ – it’s already everywhere. So how can we harness this explosion of possibility, understand what it is that content consumers want, and give them what they desire…without stuffing the budget.
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15:30 - 16:30 Essential 360 Storytelling
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is for anyone working in production who wants to learn more about multiplatform projects. What relevance is an Oyster card to a TV producer? How can an App add value to your programme? How do you use the web for genuine 360 storytelling? What are the opportunities and pitfalls of going cross-platform?
You’ve heard the talk, but discover the reality. This practical, collaborative 90 minute workshop will give you the chance actually to create your own cross-platform content, revealing why it can enhance, promote and extend your stories, and crucially, how you do it. Participants will need a smart phone to make the most of this class.
The workshop is led by Rik Lander, a pioneering cross-platform producer and director.
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15:30 - 17:30 Self Shoot Workshop for Documentary Interviews
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for Self Op directors who need to get good interview shots to cut into documentary style sequences.
This session is aimed at self shoot directors. We will use a Canon XF305 HD camera to record an interview shot. It will cover basic framing, focus, exposure and good sound acquisition. The shot is intended to be intercut with a pre-recorded visual sequence.
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15:30 - 17:30 Intro to BBC Lighting & Safety
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This session is for anyone who uses mains lighting but is unaware of BS7909, the British Standard “Code of Practice for Temporary Electrical Systems for Entertainment and Related Purposes”. Course Tutor - Ian Hider. In today's 'No win, no fee' society it’s worth knowing what you should do.
By sharing top tips, myth busting and using practical demonstrations our trainer, an experienced lighting camera operator, will promote good practice and highlight your responsibilities.
This course is an introduction to lighting safety, an awareness of the BBC safe system of work and BS7909; it alone does not give competency.
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15:45 - 16:15 Voice Coaching
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
For anyone who wants to get an assessment of their own broadcast voice and some tips on how to improve it, though it will help with working with presenters too. What are the secrets of a good broadcast voice? If you want to know how to develop your on-air delivery, sign up for this 30 minute session. The College of Journalism’s voice coach, Elspeth Morrison, will review your own voice work with you and give you her tips on how to get the very best sound. It’ll help you produce presenters better too.
NB You must bring a recent recording of your voice on a CD, DVD or a memory stick - or your session will be given to someone else.
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15:45 - 16:45 Reviewing Your Career Options: A Workshop for Women Returning to Work in TV
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund. Session for women with several years’ professional media production experience who have taken a career break for maternity or other reasons, or are about to do so.
This innovative and extremely practical ITF workshop gives participants a unique chance to take stock, assess their professional skills and experience and decide the best course of action.
Today’s short taster session will focus on marketing yourself – developing your personal pitch.
Sue Ahern is a former BBC radio & TV producer who was Senior Training Manager for BBC Radio before becoming a partner in Creative People, a training and coaching consultancy which supports and develops people in creative businesses.
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15:45 - 16:45 Advanced Internet Research
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for programme makers, journalists and researchers are all welcome. This course is for anyone involved in professional research on the Net.
The advanced Internet Research course delves the murky depths of online investigation. In this taster session you’ll see some of the ways to manipulate search engines and trace who’s behind mysterious websites. You get a chance to ask questions and demystify the complicated technical aspects of Internet research.
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15:45 - 16:45 CV Workshop
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PRACTICAL session provided by Think BIGGER! This session is for researchers, APs, production co-ordinators, production managers, PDs, series producers. Course Tutor - Nina Bhagwat.
Is your CV opening doors for you? Think BIGGER! is offering 1to1 sessions for freelancers looking to give their CV a spring clean. During the half hour sessions we will offer bespoke practical advice and guidance on how to make the right impression with your CV, and how to avoid standing out for the wrong reasons.
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15:45 - 17:15 Working with Children
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Anyone who has or may work with under 18s when making content or who is just interested!
It is not just those making children’s programmes who may end up working with children in broadcast. This course looks at the many issues that we have to take into consideration when dealing with the younger members of our audience. It will deal with some of the myths and dispel some of the fears as well as explaining how to establish a safe and creative environment by touching on issues such as good practice, licensing, consent and formal checks among others.
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15:45 - 17:15 Making an Impact
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Who is this session for? Anyone who feels they would benefit from making a greater impact in the workplace. Course Tutor - Laura Birrell. People with strong personal impact work easily with clients, stakeholders, colleagues etc. and tend to prosper in the workplace. This short interactive session looks at personal impact, focusing on the way in which we create an impression and influence others.
You will learn: how to make an instant impact; how the voice can be used as a tool to improve your influencing skills; how body language can be used to send strong signals to a room, and how you can use it to your advantage; how your appearance can do some of the hard work for you; how to appear cool and confident, even when you are feeling nervous or unsure of yourself.
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16:00 - 17:00 HD for Self Shooters
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
An overview of some of the most widely used self-shoot HD cameras, including examples from the Sony 'EX' range and the Canon XF305. Top tips on moving from SD to HD and making the transition from tape to tapeless production workflows. You will be guided through the set-up options on the cameras and be given insights as to why you might choose one model over another by specialist trainer with a wealth of both technical and practical production experience.
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16:00 - 17:00 The First Thirty Seconds
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Course Tutor - Frank Ash. This session is for all factual programme-makers. The first, vital thirty seconds of transmission are make or break time. If you fail to convince the viewers that your series/programme/story is must-watch TV and a great investment of their time, all of your endeavours and creative brilliance throughout production could be jeopardised. This workshop offers a number of tools and tips on how to intrigue and excite your audiences with the promise of a compelling and engaging story to come.
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16:00 - 17:30 Observational Shooting Skills
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PRACTICAL session provided by Skills2Film. This session is for delegates who are likely to have had some experience of shooting, but who now find themselves wanting more knowledge so that they can advance their shooting technique and their own confidence. Course Tutor - Jeremy Humphries.
So many questions to ask and nobody to answer them? Do you want to confidently shoot observational sequences, know who to film when five people are talking at once and know what crossing the line means?
Jeremy Humphries is an observational documentary cameraman of over 25 years' experience: on location one day, running workshops the next. He brings his direct experience to this workshop to discuss topics that include: shooting scenes that edit, the use of the lens, depth of field and shooting with available light.
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16:00 - 17:30 Outlook - Managing Email Overload
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Sessions for anyone who struggles to cope with number of emails they receive and wants to find some simple solutions to deal with them effectively.
At the end of the session you will be able to: use simple techniques to keep your inbox under control and spend less time staring at your inbox screen; write and receive better emails – and learn when not to use it; find the emails that matter and set up a filing system that means you never lose that important information again.
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16:00 - 18:00 Networking Made Fun
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PRACTICAL session provided by Women in Film and TV.
This session is for anyone who needs to change their view of networking and wants to find out the top tips.
Are you networking enough? How big is your "contacts" book? If you ever think: How do I sell myself?; I never know what to say; It's always a waste of time; How can I reach the person I most need to?; I never meet anyone interesting...then come along to this workshop to: feel more confident about walking into a room full of strangers; never be stuck for words; know how easy it is to walk away from someone you don't like; make networking work for you; understand how to get anyone to like you.
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16:00 - 18:00 Prototyping Interactive Experiences
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PRACTICAL session provided by Bournemouth Univesity.
This session will benefit anyone who has created web content previously (at any level) and is interested in rapidly developing mobile experiences. No technical experience is necessary but involvement in web projects is essential.
This workshop will introduce participants to prototyping mobile experiences. The workshop will examine the mobile landscape and how to rapidly develop experiences for differing mobile devices while minimising the workload across platforms.
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16:15 - 18:15 Efficient Editing with Final Cut Pro
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. The session would be suited to beginners who wish to take their first editing steps and those with some basic editing experience who wish to improve their skills. Familiarity with a Mac would be useful but not essential. What is the most efficient way to edit with Final Cut Pro?
Which of its many editing tools and techniques are the best to use?
Led by an experienced industry professional and trainer, this session will give a brief introduction to Final Cut Pro and cover some basic editing techniques and shortcuts used by many industry professionals today.
During the session, delegates will have a hands-on opportunity to put these techniques into practice by putting together a basic sequence using tools and functions from this powerful industry-standard editing package.
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16:30 - 17:30 Meet the Controllers - MASTERCLASS
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Meet the Controllers
Panel will include Zai Bennett (Controller, BBC3), Richard Klein (Controller, BBC4), Liam Keelan (Controller, BBC Daytime).
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16:30 - 18:00 Pitching to the Commissioners - MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: Pitching to the Commissioners - session on how to pitch to some of the industry's top commissioners and have a go yourself. Pitching is a difficult art to master and having a great idea is not enough to get it on screen. This session brings together top industry insiders who outline step-by-step how to develop, protect and pitch your ideas. They demystify channel briefs and discuss the merits of pitching formats vs. documentaries as well as revealing the common, embarrassing pitching errors that everyone makes at some time in their career. Panel will include Jo Clinton Davis(Head of Popular Factual ITV), Andrew Jackson (Deputy Head of Features CH4), Karl Warner (Commissioner, Comedy Entertainment BBC1/BBC3).
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16:45 - 17:45 Writing Great Copy to Get Your Programmes and Ideas Noticed
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Session for anyone, at any level, who wants to write for the web.
Learn how to write compelling web content which boosts your brand and acts as a magnet for your audience. What do web users really want from you? How do they actually read your text online? After a glimpse at some fascinating research, we turn to top tips. What are the stylistic secrets of writing for the web? What are the absolute no-nos? In this highly practical session, you get to try out the techniques you've learnt. You'll feel confident with web writing and able to produce first-rate content, whether you're describing a programme or clip or compiling a biog or profile.
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16:45 - 17:45 Big Hitters - MASTERCLASS
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BIG HITTERS - learning from 2010’s big hit programme makers how to make a successful series. Panel will include Big Fat Gypsy Jes Wilkins/Firecracker, One Born Every Minute/The Family's Sanjay Singhal and Lorraine C-Phillips/Dragonfly.
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17:00 - 18:00 Essential 360 Storytelling
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PRACTICAL session provided by the DV Talent.This session is for anyone working in production who wants to learn more about multiplatform projects. Course Tutor - Rik Lander. What relevance is an Oyster card to a TV producer? How can an App add value to your programme? How do you use the web for genuine 360 storytelling? What are the opportunities and pitfalls of going cross-platform?
You’ve heard the talk, but discover the reality. This practical, collaborative 90 minute workshop will give you the chance actually to create your own cross-platform content, revealing why it can enhance, promote and extend your stories, and crucially, how you do it. Participants will need a smart phone to make the most of this class.
The workshop is led by Rik Lander, a pioneering cross-platform producer and director.
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17:00 - 18:00 Multi-Platform for Joined-Up Production
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
This session is for producers, APs, project and operation managers, and other production team members working for TV, digital media and interactive companies.
This workshop is designed to help content-makers working for production companies and digital interactive agencies to collaborate in creating successful cross-platform projects.
In today’s short but highly interactive taster session participants will be given some top tips and a brief which they will develop and plan together as a multiplatform project.
It will be led by Kirsty Hunter, MD of innovative digital production company The Project Factory, and former Head of Interactive at Lion TV (credits include "Britain from Above" and "Horrible Histories" for the BBC, “The Hajj” for C4, “Rough Guide” for five, and “History Detectives” for PBS).
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17:00 - 18:00 Apple Motion
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PRACTICAL session by VET Training. Who is this session for? FCP editors with some experience of graphics or animation software.
Course Tutor - Ben Scott. Create powerful templates in Motion and transfer them to FCP. Creating complex layouts and layered titles is something Apple Motion shines at. This hands-on class shows the integration between Motion and Final Cut Pro for the purpose of template-driven titles like lower thirds and pre-titles.
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17:00 - 18:00 What Social Media Can Do for You
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. Session for any journalist or producer interested in finding out about courses on how Social Media and sophisticated internet tools can help you find original content and case studies, and to build relationships with audiences. Course Tutor - Claire Wardle.
Want lots of original content and case studies and contributors from new audiences? Want an instant way to track breaking news? Ever thought of trying Social Media? This session will show you how to find new material and build relationships with the 620 million people on Facebook and 190 million on Twitter as well as on numerous other social networks that are essential aides to journalists and producers in 2011.
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17:00 - 18:00 Devising and Monetising Successful Apps
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
Session is for producers, developers and other content-makers who work in TV and digital media. This ITF workshop helps content-makers learn how to develop and monetise smart phone apps with TV, digital media and interactive production companies. Today’s short taster session is led by Jonathan Davenport, Head of Digital at Hat Trick, who produced the highest grossing entertainment app of 2010: Fonejacker. He will share his experiences on this and other projects and offer his top tips on the lessons and pitfalls of devising apps. At Hat Trick Jon has also produced Bryony Makes A Zombie Movie for BBC Three, Chartjackers for BBC Switch, and online drama Neon Candy for Ford Fiesta.
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17:00 - 18:00 CV Workshop
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PRACTICAL session provided by Think BIGGER! This session is for researchers, APs, production co-ordinators, production managers, PDs, series producers. Course Tutor - Nina Bhagwat.
Is your CV opening doors for you? Think BIGGER! is offering 1to1 sessions for freelancers looking to give their CV a spring clean. During the half hour sessions we will offer bespoke practical advice and guidance on how to make the right impression with your CV, and how to avoid standing out for the wrong reasons.
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18:00 - 19:00 Networking Drinks
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An opportunity for freelancers to meet commissioners, programme makers and controllers.
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19:00 - 20:00 Managing Difficult Career Junctions: Making the Move from Production Co-ordinator to Production Manager
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PRACTICAL session provided by Think BIGGER!
Session for experienced Production Co-ordinators.
Are you an experienced Production Co-ordinator struggling to get your first break as a PM?
Negotiating this career junction can be both difficult and frustrating. This panel discussion with Q+A aims to arm you with the right tools and attitude to successfully make the move up. Our panel, made up of experienced PMs, HOPs and Talent specialists, will share their personal experiences and advice on how to negotiate this tricky career move.
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19:00 - 20:00 Managing Difficult Career Junctions: Making the Move from AP to PD
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PRACTICAL session provided by Think BIGGER!
Session for experienced Assistant Producers.
Are you feeling like you’re the most experienced AP on the block? Getting your first break as a PD can be difficult and frustrating. This panel discussion with Q+A aims to arm you with the right tools and attitude to successfully make the move up. Our panel, made up of experienced PDs and Talent specialists, will share their personal experiences and advice on how to negotiate this tricky career move.
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19:00 - 20:00 Writing Great Copy to Get Your Programmes and Ideas Noticed
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
For anyone, at any level, who wants to write for the web.
Learn how to write compelling web content which boosts your brand and acts as a magnet for your audience. What do web users really want from you? How do they actually read your text online? After a glimpse at some fascinating research, we turn to top tips. What are the stylistic secrets of writing for the web? What are the absolute no-nos? In this highly practical session, you get to try out the techniques you've learnt. You'll feel confident with web writing and able to produce first-rate content, whether you're describing a programme or clip or compiling a biog or profile.
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19:00 - 20:30 Location Sound Recording
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PRACTICAL session provided by Skills2Film. Aimed at those with a limited amount of experience, who wish to bolster work done in the field with the knowledge of why things are done the way they are.
Richard Meredith is a highly experienced Sound Mixer who has worked across documentary and live sound genres. In this workshop, professionally recorded location sound is demonstrated: the basic science behind sound and sound pressure waves, how sound is turned from pressure waves to electricity; how we deal with that electrical sound level from recording to broadcast on TV.
Recording on location topics will include: levels and line up, meters, overview of mic types inc. boom and radio mic, correct use of boom and use of radio mics inc. hidden mic placement.
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19:00 - 20:30 Apple Color
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PRACTICAL session provided by VET Training. The session focuses on taking a sequence from FCP to Color, and returning to FCP.
We provide a few tips to help you make it work.
Prepare a sequence from Final Cut Pro into Color, navigate within a Unix file system, grade, render out and return back to Final Cut Pro.
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19:00 - 20:30 Intro to Myers Briggs
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. This taster session is ideal for anyone who feels they would benefit from understanding their own MBTI preferences and would like to gain better self-awareness and improve working and personal relationships in a positive and constructive way. Course Tutor - Karen Moran. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® (MBTI) is a personality assessment which helps explain why we think and behave as we do. In this taster session, you will have the opportunity to discover your own MBTI ‘type’ which will: help you identify your unique gifts; enhance understanding of yourself, your motivations, your natural strengths and potential areas for growth; appreciate people who are different from you!
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19:00 - 21:00 Avid v5 & v5.5 - What's New?
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PRACTICAL session provided by VET Training. Who is this session for? Avid editors / Avid producers / editors. Avid post-production people. Course Tutor - Mike Butler. Hands-on session.
Learn about the changes to the Avid MC interface and how you can speed up your editing using the new tools e.g. Smart Tool, RTAS plug-ins, and developments to AMA.
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19:00 - 21:00 Self Shoot Workshop for Documentary Interviews
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
Self Op directors who need to get good interview shots to cut into documentary style sequences.
This session is aimed at self shoot directors. We will use a Canon XF 305 HD camera to record an interview shot. It will cover basic framing, focus, exposure and good sound acquisition. The shot is intended to be intercut with a pre-recorded visual sequence.
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19:00 - 21:00 Efficient Editing with Final Cut Pro
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy. The session would be suited to beginners who wish to take their first editing steps and those with some basic editing experience who wish to improve their skills. Familiarity with a Mac would be useful but not essential. What is the most efficient way to edit with Final Cut Pro?
Which of its many editing tools and techniques are the best to use?
Led by an experienced industry professional and trainer, this session will give a brief introduction to Final Cut Pro and cover some basic editing techniques and shortcuts used by many industry professionals today.
During the session, delegates will have a hands-on opportunity to put these techniques into practice by putting together a basic sequence using tools and functions from this powerful industry-standard editing package.
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19:00 - 21:00 Moving from PM to HoP
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PRACTICAL session provided by Short Courses@NFTS. Course Tutor - Anne Cafferky. This is for established Production Managers who are experienced enough to be ready for the next move up. The move up from Production Manager to Head of Production can be a difficult one – there are so many new legal and financial responsibilities to take on. This workshop will provide valuable advice to those wanting to make the move, and deliver a grounding in the new aspects of the job for Production Managers.
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19:00 - 21:00 Intro to 3D
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The BBC Academy Centre of Technology is offering a one hour workshop to equip you with some practical insights around working in 3D. You’ll see film rushes and find out why 3D is taking off at the moment. You’ll get the chance to see some of the kit filmmakers use and find out the challenges, benefits and health issues of using this technology. A practical introduction which explores everything from delivery to depth perception.
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19:15 - 20:15 Top 10 Tips of Series Producing a Hit
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PRACTICAL session provided by DV Talent. This session is aimed at senior producers and directors working in factual and fact ent. Taken from DV Talent’s sought-after Series Producer Training Scheme, this session will offer ambitious programme-makers insights into producing a hit series. The session will be led by the SP of one of the most successful and talked about factual series of recent years.
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19:15 - 20:15 Devising and Monetising Successful Apps
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
Session is for producers, developers and other content-makers who work in TV and digital media. This ITF workshop helps content-makers learn how to develop and monetise smart phone apps with TV, digital media and interactive production companies. Today’s short taster session is led by Jonathan Davenport, Head of Digital at Hat Trick, who produced the highest grossing entertainment app of 2010: Fonejacker. He will share his experiences on this and other projects and offer his top tips on the lessons and pitfalls of devising apps. At Hat Trick Jon has also produced Bryony Makes A Zombie Movie for BBC Three, Chartjackers for BBC Switch, and online drama Neon Candy for Ford Fiesta.
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19:15 - 20:15 Multi-Platform: Joined-Up Production
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PRACTICAL session provided by The Indie Training Fund.
Session for producers, APs, project and operation managers, and other production team-members working for TV, digital media and interactive companies.
This workshop is designed to help content-makers working for production companies and digital interactive agencies to collaborate in creating successful cross-platform projects.
In today’s short but highly interactive taster session participants will be given some top tips and a brief which they will develop and plan together as a multi-platform project.
It will be led by Kirsty Hunter, MD of innovative digital production company The Project Factory, and former Head of Interactive at Lion TV (credits include “Britain from Above” & “Horrible Histories” for the BBC, “The Hajj” for C4, “Rough Guide” for five, and “History Detectives” for PBS).
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19:15 - 20:15 Intro to Drama Directing for Factual Freelancers
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Session provided by the BBC Academy. Tutor - Jon East.
This course is aimed at factual programme-makers with little or no experience of television drama production and who may want to start utilising drama in their storytelling. The aim of the 60’ course is not to give a complete beginner’s guide to drama directing. Rather it is to introduce factual programme-makers to the drama director’s way of thinking when constructing a narrative sequence. With reference to specific clips directed by the tutor, the course will look at some of the expressive tools used in drama production and the reasons behind choices applied to production design, actor blocking and performances, wardrobe, camera coverage, sound and picture editing. By so doing, it will examine the distinction between communicating text and subtext to the drama audience.
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19:15 - 20:15 Networking Made Fun
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PRACTICAL session provided by Women in Film and TV.
This session is for anyone who needs to change their view of networking and wants to find out the top tips.
Are you networking enough? How big is your "contacts" book? If you ever think: How do I sell myself?; I never know what to say; It's always a waste of time; How can I reach the person I most need to?; I never meet anyone interesting...then come along to this workshop to: feel more confident about walking into a room full of strangers; never be stuck for words; know how easy it is to walk away from someone you don't like; make networking work for you; understand how to get anyone to like you.
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19:15 - 20:15 HD for Self Shooters
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PRACTICAL session provided by the BBC Academy.
An overview of some of the most widely used self-shoot HD cameras, including examples from the Sony 'EX' range and the Canon XF305. Top tips on moving from SD to HD and making the transition from tape to tapeless production workflows. You will be guided through the set-up options on the cameras and be given insights as to why you might choose one model over another by specialist trainer with a wealth of both technical and practical production experience.
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19:15 - 20:15 Taster Tapes - MASTERCLASS
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BBC Academy presents: taster tapes and the proposal - learn from commissioners and the industry’s leading programme-makers the importance of the taster tape when pitching your idea. Panel will include Duncan Gray (Head of Entertainment SKY), Fiona Campbell (Commissioner BBC Current Affairs), Alex Gardiner (Creative Director Factual ITV), Matt Rudge (Producer/Director Autistic and Me).
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**NEW** 17:00 - 18:00 Funding Your Documentary MASTERCLASS
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Funding Your Documentary
Produced by The Documentary Filmmakers Group this is an intensive and information packed masterclass - covering how to actually get funding for your documentary. Chaired by award-winning filmmaker and producer Andy Glynne, author of Documentaries and How to Make Them, our industry panel will examine conventional television streams of funding as well as new and innovative ways of sourcing money, including advertiser funding models. We'll also take a look at trusts and foundations including BRITDOC, an overview of the world of international finance and co-production, and discuss some of the latest examples of crowd funding for documentary films with Sponsume.
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