George Amponsah, Documentary FilmMaker (Enslaved, The Importance of Being Elegant, Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men) will give a masterclass in documentary filmmaking.
Kate Hopkins, Sound Supervisor (Dynasty - Lion, Planet Earth - Grasslands), and Mark Roberts, Sound Recordist (Frozen Planet - On Thin Ice, The 1900 Island), will give a masterclass in sound, talking about their experiences in the industry and answering all your burning questions about how to break into sound.
Georgina Kiedrowski, Self-Shooting Producer (The Island, Race Across the World), and Nicola Daley, Director of Photography, ACS (The Letdown, Harlots) will share their knowledge and experiences of working in the camera department on documentaries, dramas and factual entertainment for shows such as The Island with Bear Grylls, Race Across the World, Harlots and The Letdown.
Professor Lord Ara Darzi, President of the British Science Association, joins Dr Alan Karthikesalingam, Research Lead at Google Health UK, in conversation as part of the RTS Digital Convention 2020.
Professor Lord Ara Darzi and Dr Alan Karthikesalingam discuss how Artificial Intelligence is being pioneered in healthcare, extraordinary technological advances, human behaviour and the societal impacts of these.
Jeff Foulser is a highly respected television executive with a long and distinguished track record in UK and international television production. He’s built Sunset+Vine into one of the most creative and successful independent sports production companies in the world. His career began as a tea boy at LWT in the 1970’s and after various roles in ITV Sport, in 1976 he became the youngest programme editor on the network, producing the iconic Big Match football show.
Professor Lord Ara Darzi and Dr Alan Karthikesalingam will cover topics such as how Artificial Intelligence is being pioneered in healthcare, extraordinary technology advances, human behaviour and the societal impacts of these.
Find out more about the RTS Digital Convention 2020 here.
Speakers
Chances are it will be Captain Tom Moore, the Bedfordshire veteran who walked round his garden and hit headlines round the world. A hundred laps and a hundredth birthday were quickly followed by £30 million for NHS charities, a knighthood and Piers Morgan's Life Stories. So what gave Sir Tom the X factor? What was it like in the home that became besieged by the world's press?
Speakers:
Hannah Ingram-Moore is Sir Tom's daughter and a marketing and strategy expert.
Unit Manager, Guy Bishop ('Last Letter', with junior credits on 'Maleficent 2', 'Detective Pikachu', 'Bulletproof' (Sky), 'Behind Her Eyes') leads us through how the department works, an average day, common tasks and challenges, location scouting and why it’s a job like no other!
Guy is joined by panellists:
Launching a Comic Relief Marathon Telethon is a huge undertaking at any time – to tackle it in the middle of a major pandemic and a comprehensive lockdown seems like folly on a grand scale.
The Chief Executive of ITV said that the coronavirus epidemic had “brought home to a lot of people” the importance of having “a trusted [TV] source, [with no] disinformation”.
But she warned: “A lot of the stuff that goes on air would not be made if it wasn’t for the fact that there are public service broadcasters.”
McCall called for public service broadcasting, which is currently being reviewed by both media regulator Ofcom and the DCMS committee, to be treated fairly.
