The way we access content is fundamentally changing. Shorter-form content continues to grow apace and, at the same time, viewing is fragmenting across myriad devices and screens. Helping drive this change has been the emergence of a new generation of distribution platforms that blend professional video, user generated content and social media.
Ideas are the lifeblood of TV. But what makes an idea good for television? How do you respond to and build on what channels and audiences want to see? What does a job in development involve for someone new to TV? And how does an idea make it from a scribble in a notebook to screens everywhere? Our next skills-based RTS Futures event introduces the world of Development.
The RTS Futures Careers Fair made a triumphant return to the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, last month, after two years of Covid-enforced absence, during which time it was held virtually. Some 1,300 people attended the fair and around 300 received expert advice from a CV clinic. There were 45 exhibitors in the hall plus an “Ask me anything area”.
At this special panel session, the charity’s CEO, Alex Pumfrey, will be discussing how Looking Glass ’21 acts as a temperature check for the industry as it emerges from the pandemic.
The biennial RTS Cambridge Convention is where the big cheeses of the tv industry go to gnaw over the big issues facing it. This year the theme is 'Content, Consumers and Everything in Between', so there's plenty to digest!
If you were unable to get to King's College, Cambridge for 18th-20th September, here is your chance to get the lowdown. We've asked our expert panel to take their VIP Passes and come back with all the issues, the highlights, and the buzz!
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.
The Panic! Report, which compiles survey data along with interviews, gives an overview of equality and social mobility in the arts.
It states, “Particularly worrying is the fact that those people who are in the best position to effect change are the very people who most strongly support the meritocratic explanation.”
The report indicated that in the TV, film and radio sectors, only 12.4% of the workforce were considered working class – compared to a national figure of around a third of the population.
To commemorate the landmark birthday, we take a look back at the society's humble beginnings and the evolution of television over the past 90 years.
