Boss Your Life Today Masterclass | RTS Futures
Pamella Bisson, CEO of Boss Your Life Today, gives a masterclass on how to build a media career on your own terms for RTS Futures.
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RTS Futures: Interview Techniques Workshop
Creative Train’s Jade Gordon shares the tips you need to excel in your first TV interview and stand out from the crowd.
Applications open for the BBC’S New Documentary Directors’ Initiative
The initiative will offer four participants the chance to produce and direct their first long form documentary for BBC Three, with the hope of finding and showcasing the next generation of documentary makers.
Many successful, award-winning documentaries have been created as a result of the initiative, including Manchester Bomb: Our Story, Abused by my Girlfriend, Why Dad Killed Mum: My Family’s Secret, and Defending Digga D.
All About TV Casting | RTS Futures
Casting professionals discuss their TV careers working on shows such as Love Island, Saturday Night Takeaway, The Voice, and Take Me Out, and provide top tips on how to get into TV casting.
Henry Byrne, Casting Producer, Bianca Clayton, Casting Assistant Producer, Lewis Evans, Series Producer, Mo Mohsin, Casting Producer and Charlotte Welsh, Casting Researcher, join Lauren Evans, ITV Entertainment Talent Manager, for the RTS Futures event.
Industry professionals give tips and advice on how to break into TV casting
“‘You’re only as good as your last cast’– that’s the mantra we use every year on Love Island,” said Lewis Evans, one of the series producers on the show, which is currently casting for its next run. He has been part of the Love Island casting team since the first series.
He added: “The key to working in casting is that you’ve got to like people… I love chatting and I am incredibly nosey – casting gives you the opportunity to go and talk to anyone.”
The RTS Futures Virtual Careers Fair spurs ambitions
The annual RTS Futures Careers Fair returned early this month in a new and bigger form, with exhibitors from the length and breadth of the UK.
Held over two days, More than 2,200 people signed up for the-two day virtual event, hoping to get their foot on the first rungs of the TV ladder.
“This year’s virtual careers fair has been a huge success. We have welcomed more attendees, and offered more sessions and industry exhibitors than ever before,” said RTS Futures Chair Alex Wootten. “It has also been more accessible and inclusive.
RTS Futures Careers Fair: Meet the Exhibitors
This year, we are teaming up with our centres to have exhibitors all over the UK and Ireland.
Find out more about the RTS Futures Careers Fair 2021 and book now here.
Meet the exhibitors hosting virtual booths:
BBC Studios launches Assistant Producer Accelerator Programme for researchers
If so, check out a BBC Studios’ initiative which is offering 14 one-year contracts to researchers who have a minimum of three researcher credits.
The successful 14 people will be employed and paid as assistant producers and work on productions as well as receive training.
The 14 roles are for different genres and are based throughout the UK. Applications must be in by January 31.
The genres include natural history, history and documentaries, science and arts, factual and factual entertainment, and entertainment and music.
Kick Start Your Career in Motion Graphics and VFX | RTS Futures
An RTS Futures panel shares tips on how to get ahead in Motion Graphics and VFX.
Emma Kolasinska, Sergio Rincón and Michael Vodden discuss how they got their first jobs in Motion Graphics and VFX, and what the path of progression within the industry looks like.
Can TV save the planet? asks RTS Futures panel
Television soap operas have an important role to play in communicating environmental messages. That was one of the conclusions of an RTS Futures session, “Can TV save the planet?”, which discussed how it is not only the likes of David Attenborough and Chris Packham who can alert audiences to the impact of climate change and other environmental challenges.