This month we’re proud to be launching our ITF Freelancer scheme. For the first time, those joining will have access to unique ITF services which aim to develop freelancer skills and help with career progression, including:

• a third off all ITF short courses covering a wide range of in-demand training identified by top production companies
• invitations to lively Open Forum events with top indies, and great networking opportunities
• regular e-bulletins packed with the latest ITF news, industry events, training offers, funding and bursary updates

If you are a freelancer, or employ freelancers in your production company, please find out more at our website, e-mail or telephone Rychard on 020 3487 0358

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september 10

Diversity: Putting the Pledge into Action 14 sept London
A new low-cost workshop to help indies make the most of their commitment to the Diversity Pledge, and the practical steps they can take to implement it in their company ethos and operating practices
Who’s it for? HR & operations managers, production heads & managers, co-ordinators, and executive producers
Price: ITF Member £80 / Pact or freelance £120 / Corporate £160

Dealing with Difficult People 21 sept London
A one-day seminar for production managers, team managers or anyone who would like to develop their people management skills
Who’s it for? Anyone who manages other people or works in a team
Price:  ITF Member £150 / Pact  or freelance  £225 / Corporate £300

Making Money from Music 23 sept London brand new
A half-day workshop exploring opportunities for production companies to acquire the copyright in the music they commission
Who’s it for? Producers,  executive producers, business affairs executives , production managers, distributors, financiers, lawyers, music publishing administrators and accountants
Price: ITF Member £80 / Pact or freelance  £120 / Corporate £160

Researchers Survival Guide 28 sept London
A one-day workshop designed specifically for junior production staff such as runners, junior researchers, production secretaries, etc
Who’s it for? Designed for junior production staff with some experience of working as a researcher or in a production or development environment
Price: ITF Member £100 / Pact or freelance £150 / Corporate £200

Principles of Production Insurance 30 sept London
A half-day seminar to provide a basic outline of media production insurance for feature film and TV, why you need it and how it works
Who’s it for? This is a seminar course for producers, production managers and coordinators and anyone who arranges insurance cover or may need to make a claim. Suitable for both feature film and TV production
Price: ITF Member £50 / Pact or freelance £75  / Corporate £100

october 10

Compliance: Keeping up to date 7 oct London
A half-day seminar to give you an up to the minute grounding on all the important compliance issues in broadcast production
Who’s it for? Producers, executives, production managers and co-ordinators, researchers, and anyone who may be expected to ensure compliance obligations are met
Price: ITF Member £80 / Pact  or freelance  £120 / Corporate £160

Music Rights (1): The Essentials 12 oct London
A morning seminar to guide you through the basics of music copyright clearance
Who’s it for? Production staff off all levels, anyone who wants to gain an overview of clearance procedures for music in audio-visual production.
Price: ITF Member £60 / Pact £90 / Corporate £120

Cross-platform: Generating New Projects and Markets 14 oct London *Skillset bursary applies
A one-day workshop to encourage TV, digital media and interactive producers to develop their skills and business by creating, planning and pitching cross-platform projects for different markets
Who’s it for? Producers, APs, project and operations managers and other production team-members of TV &/or digital media and interactive companies looking to devise and deliver cross-platform projects for all markets; also freelancers wanting to create digital productions.
This workshop has been planned in partnership with Pact
Price: ITF Member £100 / Pact £150 / Corporate £200

Generating Innovative Content 19 oct London
A one-day workshop on creative thinking techniques with practical applications to generating and developing TV programme ideas
Who’s it for? Anyone in production who is involved with generating, researching and/or producing programme ideas
Price: ITF Member £120 / Pact  or freelance  £180 / Corporate £240

Managing People for the First Time 21 oct London
A one-day seminar for production managers and team managers or anyone preparing for a management role
Who’s it for? Anyone wanting to improve their people management skills at work.
ITF Member £150 / Pact £225 / Corporate £300

Multiplatform: Joined-up Production 28 oct London *Skillset bursary applies
A one-day workshop to help production companies and digital interactive agencies work
together to create cross platform content
Who’s it for? Producers, APs, project and operations managers, and other production team-members. This workshop has been planned in partnership with Pact
Price: ITF Member £100 / Pact or freelance £150 / Corporate £200

*Skillset bursaries apply to this course…
Candidates for this course may be eligible for funding (80% of the training costs for freelancers, or 50% for employees – including  travel and accommodation if relevant) through Skillset’s Multiplatform Bursary Scheme
How to book: contact ITF as usual to secure a place on the course and pay ITF in the usual way. Apply as soon as possible to Skillset before the course because it will take up to 4 weeks for Skillset to confirm bursaries.

book / find out more

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Be one of the first to join the new ITF Freelancer scheme…

For the first time, individual freelancers will be able to join ITF at a special low cost and enjoy a range of unique benefits for training, development and career progression.

Exclusive ITF Freelancer benefits:
•    great savings on ITF training. Enjoy a third off – every course, all year-round!
•    stay up-to-date with news, events and offers every month via ITF monthly e-bulletins.
•    receive invitations to unique Open Forum discussion and networking sessions devoted to the latest hot topics in our business.

Contact us for further details and to register interest for the scheme.

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Skillset has released bursaries for multiplatform courses from June of up to 80% of the cost for experienced TV freelancers, and 50% for employees (including travel and accommodation expenses where relevant).  Apply to Skillset beacuse you need to do so at least 5 days before the course…

Multiplatform: Joined-up Production 08.07.10 London
A one-day workshop to help production companies and digital interactive agencies work
together to create cross platform content
Who’s it for? Producers, APs, project and operations managers, and other production team-members. This workshop has been planned in partnership with Pact
Price: ITF Member £100 / Pact or freelance £150 / Corporate £200

Cross-platform Storytelling 15.07.10 London
A full-day workshop to develop the writing and storytelling skills of TV and digital media production teams over a range of platforms and to review the latest trends in cross-platform scripted content
Who’s it for? TV & digital media content development teams, producers, directors and writers. Delegates will be asked to select and submit before the course a single page content proposal (new or existing) that you would like to develop in the workshop
Price: ITF Member £100 / Pact or freelance £150 / Corporate £200

Cross-platform: Generating New Projects and Markets 14.10.10 London
A one-day workshop to encourage TV, digital media and interactive producers to develop their skills and business by creating, planning and pitching cross-platform projects for different markets
Who’s it for? Producers, APs, project and operations managers and other team members of TV and/or digital media and interactive companies looking to devise and deliver cross-platform projects for all markets; also freelancers wanting to create digital productions.This workshop has been planned in partnership with Pact
Price: ITF Member £100 / Pact or freelance £150 / Corporate £200

Mutiplatform: Making Money from Digital Platforms and Rights 18.11.10 London
A half-day introductory workshop to help production companies and interactive agencies understand how to make money from digital platforms, and to exploit the content rights in both broadcast and corporate markets.
Who’s it for? Designed as an introductory course for TV and digital media production companies this course will benefit those requiring an overview of exploiting content on TV, digital media, interactive and 360 platforms. This workshop has been planned in partnership with Pact
Price: ITF Member £100 / Pact or freelance £150 / Corporate £200

book these courses / find out more

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Skillset is now offering bursaries of up to 80% of training costs – including travel and accommodation expenses where relevant – to eligible freelancers and employees on all 4 of our cross-platform workshops in the first quarter of 2010. The two remaining workshops below are still eligible for funding.
Apply as soon as possible before the courses because Skillset will take up to 4 weeks to approve applications:

Multiplatform: Joined-up Production 04.03.10 (tbc) London
A one-day workshop to help production companies and digital interactive agencies work
together to create cross platform content
Who’s it for? Producers, APs, project and operations managers, and other production team-members. This workshop has been planned in partnership with Pact

Making Money From Digital Platforms and Rights 16.03.10 London
A half-day introductory workshop to help production companies and interactive agencies understand how to make money from digital platforms, and to exploit the content rights in both broadcast and corporate markets
Who’s it for? Designed as an introductory course for TV and digital media production companies this course will benefit those requiring an overview of exploiting content on TV, digital media, interactive and 360 platforms.This workshop has been planned in partnership with Pact

More info/apply for a Skillset bursary

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Indie Training Fund thanks delegates and trainers Kirsty Hunter (Lion TV) and Tim Morgan (Mint Digital) for their input once again on the new Multiplatform workshop, Joined-Up Production, that took place on 25 June 2009.

The day-long workshop gave those attending the chance to find out from case studies, discussion and sharing their own experience, what makes effective multiplatform projects, what’s hot and what isn’t, and how to devise, plan and manage projects successfully.

What you thought:

‘excellent speakers, great discussions and useful brainstorms surrounding multiplatform development’

‘the opportunity to ask questions was most useful. I haven’t had a chance to have one-to-one sessions with multiplatform experts and felt I could ask questions freely’

‘it was good to have an informal approach so we could interact at any point to fulfill our needs’

View the presentation

Joined Up Production will next take place on 28 October 2009

Email bookings@indietrainingfund.com for further details

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As of 6 April 2009 a number of employment law updates have come into force. These include issues on resolution procedures, flexible working, sick pay and statutory annual leave entitlement.

Itf’s Intro to Employment Law is a one-day seminar covering the basics of employment law for independent production companies. It will include what the changes are and what they mean for employers reviewing contracts and policies to reflect the changes. This seminar is suitable for producers, production managers, human resources staff and anyone wanting to know more about the legal side of recruitment and staff management.

Next date: Intro to Employment Law 11/11/2009 – ITF Member £150 / Pact Member £225 / Corporate 300

Book now

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Some thoughts from Mike Flood Page

THINK MULTIPLATFORM

Creative Development
Who or what is or are:-
the big idea/proposition/USP?
Client, stakeholders
Your audience/user groups
Touch Points a.k.a. media use
How can you reach them/how will they find you?
What’s in it for them; why should they bother?
What will keep them coming back?
Product, Event or Service
Platforms: broadband, mobile, social network, print, live events…
Competition
Business model – who  pays, why?

Some useful URLS
illumina
who do you think you are
get cooking
quizmania
webquests
bbci player
britannia high
big brother
springwatch
stagework
last fm
nike
breaking the news

Thanks to all the contributors and delegates for their input on ITF’s first Multiplatform: Winning Commissions workshop which made it so productive. Participants had the unique opportunity to pitch projects they’d developed in teams during the workshop to multiplatform commissioners Nick Cohen (BBC) and Adam Gee (C4), who shared their preferences and aversions with the delegates, as well as giving invaluable feedback to them on their proposals. The workshop day was led by Illumina Digital Editorial Director Mike Flood Page who revealed how to develop and plan successful projects for different media, and Endemol Digital’s Jim Harrison gave a commercial perspective about making branded content for non-broadcast platforms.

“brilliant and very effective… advice  was very clear and well demonstrated” (Morgana Pugh – RDF Media)
“All of it was very useful” (Margaret Schmueck – Split Second Films)
“It was useful to pitch straight to the commissioner, and check out that we were thinking along the right lines” (Alexis Burke – RDF Media)

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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

Find out more/make a booking

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