Subsidised ITF courses in Leeds

We team up with Screen Yorkshire once again to bring ITF courses to companies and freelancers in the North…

Coping with Archive Clips

A one-day workshop to enable production staff to access library material speedily, efficiently, economically and to best effect…within time-scale and budget.

When: Thursday 26 March 2009

Who’s it for: Production staff of all levels who are regularly asked to do archive research as part of their job. Priority booking and subsidies apply to companies from the Yorkshire and Humber region

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ITF goes Multiplatform in 2009!

The Indie Training Fund is getting into the digital marketplace by launching new workshops about multiplatform in 2009 planned together with Pact. They are aimed at both TV production people and digital media specialists so that they can learn, share their knowledge and network in partnership with other delegates in these interactive events. The session leaders are top expert practitioners in this fast-moving new area of content production.

Joined-up Production (Wednesday 18 February): Kirsty Hunter, Head of Interactive at Lion TV, will share her experiences of making Britain from Above, this year’s big cross-platform hit for the BBC. She believes a key part of its success was planning and scheduling it from the start as a multiplatform project, and working as one joined-up team of TV production people and digital interactive specialists under one overall producer. She will also use examples from some of the other 360 degree productions she has made like Rough Guide (five), Britain’s Best (UKTV), Egypt’s Golden Empire (PBS), History Detectives (PBS), The Hajj (C4), Time Commanders (BBC), and Playing It Straight (C4).

Joining her in conducting this workshop will be Tim Morgan, co-founder of Mint Digital, the makers of cross-platform projects like Radio Pop (BBC), Orange unsignedAct for Sony Ericsson & Orange, Skins Life (E4), Osama Loves (C4), and Buried Alive for which he won MIPTV’s first BBC Content 360 award in 2006. He will discuss how his partnerships with TV indies create innovative entertainment that fuses the excitement of TV with the interactivity of the web.

Another new ITF multiplatform workshop in March (Tuesdsay 24) will be Making Money from Digital Platforms & Rights led by Peter Cowley, Head of Digital Media at Endemol, makers of many innovative cross-platform successes from Big Brother to reality strand Gap Year on Bebo, mobile drama Cell for 02, Upstaged and interactive drama Signs of Life for the BBC, and the new online drama pilot Kirill for MSN. In these tough economic times many enterprising producers in both interactive and TV production companies are looking to the web, digital content and rights exploitation for financial rewards.

Also contributing to this session will be Justin Judd, founder of i-Rights, which is one of the leading companies in the international distribution and exploitation of new and existing content on digital platforms like social networks, IPTV and mobile.

And following soon after in the spring will be another inspiring new ITF workshop on Developing & Winning Multiplatform Commissions ….

So contact ITF bookings soon to reserve your places on our new workshops because they’re bound to be popular and will get filled up quickly….

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