RTS Midlands Awards 2016
This years awards will be presented at a gala dinner held at The National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull on the evening of Thursday 3rd November. Our compere for the evening will be ITV News Central's Sameena Ali Khan.
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RTS Midlands Centre Awards 2016
MIDLANDS AWARD CATEGORIES 2016
Best Promotional Programme
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This Award recognises production excellence and creativity in programmes intended either for general or specialised audiences made either for corporate purposes or retail/mail order sale.
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They may have promotional, public information, training, educational, entertainment, special interest or other purposes.
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They must not have been broadcast other than as an insert to a separate programme
The power of Poldark: Anatomy of a hit
Reviving a much-loved drama series from a less competitive and less knowing TV era was never going to be easy. But everything fell into place for the team that resurrected the swashbuckling period romance Poldark, originally a big hit for BBC One in the mid-1970s.
Even the notoriously unpredictable Cornish weather played ball – and the show went on to spark a media sensation when the rebooted Ross Poldark took his top off.
Tips in 60 seconds... Pitching a game show idea
Danielle Lux is the managing director of CPL. She has overseen shows such as Sky 1's A League of Their Own featuring comedian James Corden and ITV's All Star Mr and Mrs.
Here she explains that it is about communicating the experience to the viewer and working backwards from that thought process when coming up with an idea for a game show.
Watch industry experts discuss their craft at the RTS Student Masterclasses
Students were given the opportunity to listen industry experts about their craft.
From cameraman Steve Robinson describing how to portray personal moments on camera to editor of BBC One's The Missing explaining how a show comes together in the cutting room, the two-day masterclasses provided advice and insight into the television industry.
RTS Student Masterclass: Documentary production
Morgan Matthews has taken his camera in to places that most directors shy away from; into lives torn apart by mental illness, bereavement and addiction.
There is, however, another side to the award-winning documentary film-maker; one that delights in the quirky worlds of pigeon fanciers, Elvis impersonators and teenage maths prodigies.
His films, said the chair of the documentary student masterclass, Ruth Pitt, revealed “the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary.”
Julian Bellamy's speech to the RTS
Good evening. I’d like to start with an apology to Monica and Karen, our two signers tonight. They maybe from Signpost - our multi-award winning Gateshead-based signing business - but I bet they’ve not signed Anglo Saxon before….until tonight. Standby for a speech that can link Ant and Dec to the West Germanic version of Old English…yes, really.
Haydn Jones: In praise of the functional model of IT
It requires clarity – clarity of thought and clarity of action. It means being able to align technology deployment along business units and service capabilities. It means being able to distinguish between the cost of running the business and the cost of changing the business and it means being able to delineate effective spend from wasteful spend. This applies whether you are shipping cement or filming the next Happy Valley.
Tips in 60 Seconds... How to work in TV with a hearing impairment
Camilla Arnold is a Creative Director at deaf-led production company, Flashing Lights.
Here she explains how being determined, despite having a hearing impairment, will help to open doors for you.
Jane Turton: We can do bigger, better, challenging things
There was a great deal of quiet satisfaction across the British production sector when Jane Turton was named Chief Executive of All3Media back in February. The steely, 53-year-old Scot had triumphed over external candidates following a five-month, global search by its new US owners, hard-driving Discovery Communications and Liberty Global, who paid around £550m for this important producer.