How do our favourite gameshows and dramas make their way on to screens all around the world? Well, behind every TV mega-hit there’s a distribution team who have orchestrated the success and turned them into worldwide brands. And at every broadcaster, a team of acquisitions experts select the best shows to buy or invest in. In this webinar, leading figures in the UK lift the lid on how TV’s global game is played and how you can find your way in.

Chair - John Elmes is the International Editor at Broadcast

The Panel:

The fight to be found, heard and consumed is getting more complicated for TV brands. Brand cut-through now means understanding digital platforms, mobile devices and where to find consumers; who in addition to traditional channels now also get their recommendations from friends on social media. This session will investigate how consumers are responding to all this choice, delve into what drives their choice, and investigate how both legacy TV and video brands are tackling the new world and expand their tool kits to stand out find audiences?

Panellists:

The prestigious awards celebrate the best audiovisual work created by students, with an undergraduate and postgraduate winner both awarded in each category across Animation, Comedy & Entertainment, Drama, Factual, News and Short Form.

Awards will also be presented in the following categories at the judges’ discretion: Camerawork, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Writing.

In conversation with Lynn Barlow, chair, RTS WoE, followed by Q+A.

Speakers

Wendy Darke – CEO True to Nature Productions
Grant Mansfield – CEO Plimsoll Productions
Mike Jenkins – Founder, Blak Wave Productions
Sacha Mirzoeff – C4 Commissioner, Bristol Creative Hub

The adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel Normal People by Element Pictures in 2020 is a highly successful series on linear television, online players and subscription video on demand. This RTS discussion explores the creativity and the practical techniques involved in crafting sound for the television drama Normal People.

What sort of skills do you need to break into this side of the industry? And what are the different job roles that make up this creative team? Join us for an in depth chat with Art Directors and Assistants who have worked across some of the uk's most popular TV shows who will tell us how they secured their first job, what it's like to work in an Art Department and tips and tricks on how to stand out from the crowd to potential employers.

PANEL

Maddie Flint, Art Director (entertainment)

Olivia Hodder, Art Dept Assistant (entertainment)

The guidelines provide practical suggestions for assessing and managing the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) whilst in production, but in practical terms what are the biggest challenges? How are different departments having to innovate? What is the impact on the finished product? What at the biggest challenges? How are we balancing physical and mental well-being of cast and crew? And what learnings can be shared between productions and between countries?

As production navigates this ‘new normal’ this session asks what is the future for the studio audience. How do we replace the energy that an audience brings? Looking around the world; a French Karaoke show has used mannequins to fill the audience, football is being played behind closed doors in Germany and Aussie soap Neighbours is digitally adding extras into scenes – what will the UK do longer-term across different genres of sport, comedy, gameshows and chat?

Property is a very British obsession and there have been a multitude of hugely successful TV formats. From selling houses, buying houses, building houses, moving to the country, moving to the sea, downsizing, upsizing … the list goes on and our appetite does not seem to wane. So why do we love property shows? How have they changed as society (and the housing market) have changed, what are the key ingredients to a successful property show and where will the format go from here?