Freelance/Student £140
Members £115
*The tickets include a light lunch
In an increasingly competitive media marketplace, gaining maximum coverage for the issues that matter is key to making sure your stories make a difference. Learn why editors reject or select humanitarian and NGO stories and how to avoid the classic pitfalls. This course will show you how to produce fantastic visually led pitches using the right platforms to ensure maximum coverage and compliments the storytelling courses held in January and March.
What you will cover:
- How to tell visual stories that sell in well,
- Pitching photo stories to the media,
- The relationship between media and photography,
- Understanding what the media wants,
- Understanding what the media doesn’t want (what not to do),
- The role of wire services like AP, Reuters, AFP, and EPA,
- How to file photographs as press handouts to the wires,
- Using web platforms and social media effectively for dissemination photography.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
Freelance/Student £85
Member £70
*Ticket includes a light lunch
From pitching to an editor or presenting to an audience, to interviewing key witnesses and getting in front of the camera, speaking well in public is a necessary skill to help you tell your stories.
This one-day workshop will cover some of the main stumbling blocks associated with speaking effectively in public. These include relaxation, voice projection, effective use of pauses, owning the text and good and open body language.
The course will include plenty of practical exercises and opportunities to develop better public speaking technique, through utilising the subjects covered throughout the day. We will also watch some examples of great public speaking and have an opportunity to discuss what makes them so great.
The workshop is suitable for anyone who finds it difficult to speak in front of an audience, whether their reasons be professional or personal and is run in a friendly, fun and supportive way.
About the trainer
Hugh Barnett is a classically trained actor who, after eight years of treading the boards, became a teacher in adult education, designing and teaching courses in acting and public speaking. He also runs one of London’s only harmonica courses. The main ethos of his teaching is to increase his students’ potential by reducing their self-consciousness.
Image via Shutterstock
]]>Freelance/Student £140
Members £115
*Tickets include lunch
Radio can be an incredibly powerful way to tell a story, and it’s a growing medium. This one-day course will get you started with some of the key techniques of radio documentary making.
You’ll cover the editorial essentials such as spotting an idea, building a narrative structure, finding the right contributors, as well as how to use sound creatively to grab the listener’s attention. There’ll also be tips on pitching ideas to programme editors or commissioning executives.
During the day, you’ll get hands on experience of working out a story and learning how to pitch it. You’ll hear lots of inspiring audio, and analyse the techniques used, and you’ll learn some of the principles involved in capturing the listener’s attention, and how to hold it.
At the end of the course you will have a better understanding of the potential of radio, and should be in a good position to pitch to broadcasters such as BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, or making audio features and documentaries for online broadcasters.
The course would suit those from other media or communications disciplines who are thinking of broadening their skill base as well as those completely new to the field.
About the trainers:
David Prest and Deborah Dudgeon of Whistledown Productions will teach the course. Whistledown is the largest provider of speech programmes to BBC Radio, providing landmark series such as Radio 4’s The Reunion, and Feedback, as well as a wide range of features and documentaries. Whistledown also works with universities and commercial clients to make podcasts and audio guides.
Image: via Shutterstock / MAFord
]]>Freelance/Student £140
Members £115
*Tickets include a light lunch
Got a documentary idea but not sure how to: move it forwards, get some interest, get it funded, commissioned and broadcast? This one day course is for anyone, from complete beginners to experienced producers, who have a documentary idea but don’t know how to move it forwards, develop it and get it made. This workshop applies to online documentaries, broadcast TV documentaries and one-off theatrical release documentaries. During the day we break down the development process, working through what’s needed to create a compelling pitch, then a fully rounded proposal, a treatment, shooting schedule, budget and sizzle teaser.
The workshop will cover the following:
1. PITCH
– What is a story?
– What is a documentary?
– Where’s the access?
– The title
– The pitch
2. PROPOSAL
– Planning the proposal
– Tag line
– Identifying the critical information for each section
– Writing and rewriting the proposal
– Sizzle teasers
3. TREATMENT
– Point of view
– Treatment and execution styles
– Presenters, narration
– Re-versioning, added value and interactive options
– The opening sequence and how to start
– Narrative reveal, arc, structure
– Script
– Empathy, pace and audience engagement
– HEC test
– The importance of themes
4. PRODUCTION
– Rights, release forms
– Shooting schedule
– Budget
– Production managing and workflow
Dean Arnett is an award-winning, self-shooting producer, with 23 years’ experience. After many years working for the BBC, he is now freelance, shooting documentaries, corporates and TV features with a variety of cameras, all around the world. He also provides training for the BBC, PA, Archant and other media groups.
This conference is aimed freelance camera operators and photographers. The idea is to explore how to produce first class video and make it relevant today. We will be looking at the latest trends in broadcast, online and social video, storytelling, explore how to pitch your ideas and get them commissioned – and discuss the very latest innovations in filmmaking.
This is a practical day of tips and advice to help freelancers and aspiring filmmakers succeed in the industry. There will be a series of presentations, masterclasses, demonstrations and panel discussions.
An introduction to video in 2017
David Hayward will give and introduction to the state of the video industry in 2017. He’ll discuss the latest trends in video from the broadcast, online and social media perspective.
Video Storytelling Masterclass with Vin Ray
An introduction to video storytelling. Moving from the basic elements of television and video packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. Vin Ray will explore how everyone, from newcomers to experienced professionals, can improve their films and storytelling.
Pitching masterclass with Pervez Khan
The skill of successful pitching is an art form. You need to understand exactly what commissioners want and how to sell the story, the concept and the film to them. Perez Khan is an award winning the documentary series producer and renowned filmmaker. He will guide you through the pitching process and how to get your films commissioned.
Meet the commissioners – panel discussion
The first session of the afternoon is an informal panel discussion with some of the key commissioners from the broadcast and online media industry. We will look at the stories they want, the type of films they are commissioning at the moment – and how to pitch your ideas to them
Creating and telling a story across a multi-platform – with Tom Jenkins, The Guardian
Tom will discuss how he developed and pitched his ideas for stories and bringing them to fruition with The Guardian on Line video, text and in print.
Innovation, Filmmaking and where next for video with Dr David Dunkley-Gyimah.
In this keynote address, Dr David Dunkley Gyimah will look at the ways video journalism and filmmaking are developing through technology and creative innovation. He will discuss the latest storytelling techniques, the future of the industry and how the most inventive videos are being produced in 2017.
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Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
Radio can be an incredibly powerful way to tell a story, and it’s a growing medium. This one-day course will get you started with some of the key techniques of radio documentary making.
You’ll cover the editorial essentials such as spotting an idea, building a narrative structure, finding the right contributors, as well as how to use sound creatively to grab the listener’s attention. There’ll also be tips on pitching ideas to programme editors or commissioning executives.
During the day, you’ll get hands on experience of working out a story and learning how to pitch it. You’ll hear lots of inspiring audio, and analyse the techniques used, and you’ll learn some of the principles involved in capturing the listener’s attention, and how to hold it.
At the end of the course you will have a better understanding of the potential of radio, and should be in a good position to pitch to broadcasters such as BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, or making audio features and documentaries for online broadcasters.
The course would suit those from other media or communications disciplines who are thinking of broadening their skill base as well as those completely new to the field.
About the trainers:
David Prest and Deborah Dudgeon of Whistledown Productions will teach the course. Whistledown is the largest provider of speech programmes to BBC Radio, providing landmark series such as Radio 4’s The Reunion, and Feedback, as well as a wide range of features and documentaries. Whistledown also works with universities and commercial clients to make podcasts and audio guides.
Image: via Shutterstock / MAFord
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
In an increasingly competitive media marketplace, gaining maximum coverage for the issues that matter is key to making sure your stories make a difference. Learn why editors reject or select humanitarian and NGO stories and how to avoid the classic pitfalls. This course will show you how to produce fantastic visually led pitches using the right platforms to ensure maximum coverage and compliments the storytelling courses held in January and March.
What you will cover:
- How to tell visual stories that sell in well,
- Pitching photo stories to the media,
- The relationship between media and photography,
- Understanding what the media wants,
- Understanding what the media doesn’t want (what not to do),
- The role of wire services like AP, Reuters, AFP, and EPA,
- How to file photographs as press handouts to the wires,
- Using web platforms and social media effectively for dissemination photography.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
As guest speakers we’ll have Zing Tsjeng Editor at VICE and Jonathan Paterson Digital Editor at BBC who will be sharing their experience on pitching and what they expect from a good story.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £62.50
Member £50
From pitching to an editor or presenting to an audience, to interviewing key witnesses and getting in front of the camera, speaking well in public is a necessary skill to help you tell your stories.
This one-day workshop will cover some of the main stumbling blocks associated with speaking effectively in public. These include relaxation, voice projection, effective use of pauses, owning the text and good and open body language.
The course will include plenty of practical exercises and opportunities to develop better public speaking technique, through utilising the subjects covered throughout the day. We will also watch some examples of great public speaking and have an opportunity to discuss what makes them so great.
The workshop is suitable for anyone who finds it difficult to speak in front of an audience, whether their reasons be professional or personal and is run in a friendly, fun and supportive way.
About the trainer
Hugh Barnett is a classically trained actor who, after eight years of treading the boards, became a teacher in adult education, designing and teaching courses in acting and public speaking. He also runs one of London’s only harmonica courses. The main ethos of his teaching is to increase his students’ potential by reducing their self-consciousness.
Image via Shutterstock
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
Radio can be an incredibly powerful way to tell a story, and it’s a growing medium. This one-day course will get you started with some of the key techniques of radio documentary making.
You’ll cover the editorial essentials such as spotting an idea, building a narrative structure, finding the right contributors, as well as how to use sound creatively to grab the listener’s attention. There’ll also be tips on pitching ideas to programme editors or commissioning executives.
During the day, you’ll get hands on experience of working out a story and learning how to pitch it. You’ll hear lots of inspiring audio, and analyse the techniques used, and you’ll learn some of the principles involved in capturing the listener’s attention, and how to hold it.
At the end of the course you will have a better understanding of the potential of radio, and should be in a good position to pitch to broadcasters such as BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, or making audio features and documentaries for online broadcasters.
The course would suit those from other media or communications disciplines who are thinking of broadening their skill base as well as those completely new to the field.
About the trainers:
David Prest and Deborah Dudgeon of Whistledown Productions will teach the course. Whistledown is the largest provider of speech programmes to BBC Radio, providing landmark series such as Radio 4’s The Reunion, and Feedback, as well as a wide range of features and documentaries. Whistledown also works with universities and commercial clients to make podcasts and audio guides.
Image: via Shutterstock / MAFord
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
Radio can be an incredibly powerful way to tell a story, and it’s a growing medium. This one-day course will get you started with some of the key techniques of radio documentary making.
You’ll cover the editorial essentials such as spotting an idea, building a narrative structure, finding the right contributors, as well as how to use sound creatively to grab the listener’s attention. There’ll also be tips on pitching ideas to programme editors or commissioning executives.
During the day, you’ll get hands on experience of working out a story and learning how to pitch it. You’ll hear lots of inspiring audio, and analyse the techniques used, and you’ll learn some of the principles involved in capturing the listener’s attention, and how to hold it.
At the end of the course you will have a better understanding of the potential of radio, and should be in a good position to pitch to broadcasters such as BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, or making audio features and documentaries for online broadcasters.
The course would suit those from other media or communications disciplines who are thinking of broadening their skill base as well as those completely new to the field.
About the trainers:
David Prest and Deborah Dudgeon of Whistledown Productions will teach the course. Whistledown is the largest provider of speech programmes to BBC Radio, providing landmark series such as Radio 4’s The Reunion, and Feedback, as well as a wide range of features and documentaries. Whistledown also works with universities and commercial clients to make podcasts and audio guides.
Image: via Shutterstock / MAFord
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