SCHEDULE
(subject to amendment)
| 10.30am | Registration opens |
| 11.00am |
Introduction and welcome |
| 11.00am-12.00pm |
Masterclass 1 - DramaSpeaker: Andy Harries, Chief Executive, Left Bank Pictures Chair: Alex Graham, Joint CEO, Two Cities Television
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| 12.00pm-12.45pm | Lunch |
| 12.45pm-1.45pm |
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Channel 4 News' Ria Chatterjee has reported extensively on UK social affairs, including police corruption, poverty, youth violence, inequalities within the education system, the coronavirus pandemic, the impact of Brexit and much more.
In conversation with Executive Producer at Basement Films Ben de Pear, Chatterjee shares her tricks of the journalism trade.
Cinematographer Diana Olifirova gives a masterclass in her craft at the RTS Student Masterclasses 2021.
Kenton Allen, CEO of Big Talk productions (Outlaws), discusses his illustrious career and reveals top tips for creating hit scripted entertainment shows such as Royle Family and Friday Night Dinner.
The craft masterclasses demonstrated television’s huge variety of creative roles. The cinematography session offered two experts from opposite ends of the shooting spectrum. Georgina Kiedrowski is frequently embedded with the cast on reality shows such as Channel 4’s The Island with Bear Grylls. “I have to concentrate on the editorial as well as [the shooting],” said the self-shooting producer.
Russell Dodgson, Creative Director, Television, Framestore (His Dark Materials) talks about the world of VFX, including his experiences of working on the James Bond and Harry Potter franchises and the TV adaptation of His Dark Materials.
Emma Gormley, Managing Director, Daytime, ITV Studios, talks about what it's like to run ITV Daytime and working on shows such as Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women in this Daytime and Entertainment Masterclass.
Lisa Holdsworth, TV and Theatre Writer and Chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (Ackley Bridge, All Creatures Great and Small), gives a masterclass in drama and discusses her extensive experience writing for shows such as Waterloo Road, Call the Midwife, New Tricks and Midsomer Murders.
Mobeen Azhar, Journalist and Film Maker (Hometown, A Black and White Killing: The Case that Shook America, Webcam Boys, Muslims Like Us) shares his tips on how to break into the industry and talks about his 15 years of experience working in journalism, specialising in areas such as religion, extremism and counter extremism, drugs, addiction, sex work, Prince and Pakistan.
George Amponsah, Documentary FilmMaker (Enslaved, The Importance of Being Elegant, Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men) will give a masterclass in documentary filmmaking.
