RTS National Event

ScreenSkills works across the UK to ensure that film, television (including children's and high-end drama), VFX (visual effects), animation and games have the skills and talent they need.

The event will focus on the general (freelance-centric) workforce in the TV industry and the mental health issues they may experience. It will also look at how companies can be “good employers”, and will highlight good examples of on-screen representation of mental health in general.

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Tonight is the UK's most popular current affairs series and RTS NW is delighted to invite you to look back over the last 20 years.
The event takes place at the Compass Room, Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays.
Doors will open at 6.30pm for drinks, with a welcome address by Michael Jermey before there will be an “in conversation” with Julie Etchingham and Sir Trevor McDonald. An audience Q and A will follow. 
This is a free event and tickets will go fast.
 

Do you remember waking up to Noel Edmonds on Christmas morning, as you searched for a tangerine in your stocking? The Queen’s Speech, The Sound of Music? Christmas Celebrity Squares and over 20 million people watching Eric and Ernie?

Or what about today, with Doctor Who, Strictly Come Dancing, The Alternative Queen’s Speech, Coronation Street and EastEnders but also perhaps a box set.

Is the future of Christmas TV a barren land of declining audiences as we all spend Christmas day asking Alexa?

 
Series 11 of Doctor Who debuts in October and has once again been made in Wales.  RTS Wales are delighted to be in conversation with one of the key players in its production and the man who oversees the show for BBC Studios.

Premiering in 2018 at Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs, Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie is a 90-minute documentary film from Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Andrea Nevins (The Other F Word) for Hulu (USA). The documentary film sees Barbie’s transformation over the years from her humble origins to her controversial persona today, throughout which Barbie has become a fashion icon, a lightning rod and a target for feminists.

 
Mae'r hyn a elwir yn 'strwythur o gynnig' yn caniatáu i dronau gyfleu y byd go iawn ar lefel sy'n manylu y tu hwnt i waith camera fideo confensiynol.  Nawr mae'r diwydiant vfx yn deffro i'r potensial am dronau i symleiddio'r busnes hynod o llafurus o ail-greu tirweddau ac adeiladau mewn byd CGI.  Mae Michael Surcombe yn archwilio rhai o'r posibiliadau yn y maes hwn, ac mae hefyd yn cynnal arolwg o gyflwr presennol o’r defnyudd o dronau yn y byd teledu.

 
​So-called ‘structure from motion’ allows drones to capture the real world at a level of detail way beyond conventional videography.  Now the VFX industry is waking up to the potential for drones in streamlining the vastly time-consuming business of recreating landscapes and buildings in a CGI world.  Michael Surcombe explores some of the possibilities in this area, and he also surveys the current state of drones in the TV business.

Bernie Davis started life in the BBC TV Outside Broadcasts to become one of their senior lighting directors. Since leaving the BBC Bernie has become has been an established TV Lighting Designer for over twenty-five years working on many of the highest-profile programmes ranging from events in cathedrals and palaces, to concerts and light entertainment shows, plays, opera  and ballets from The National Theatre and Covent Garden.

This meeting starts with SMPTE Standards VP Bruce Devlin (Mr MXF) giving a quick IMF Primer /101  then Steve Fish looks at IMF in Turner Internationals Television business and finally Andy Lampard on IMF for Film Localisation.