Training Courses
Hybrid Fx School - Six Week Intensive Prosthetic Makeup Course
The course will take you through the many varied stages of Prosthetic Makeup Design that you would be required to know and practice in the Industry today. Covering the techniques from script breakdown, designing, sculpting, mould making, fabricating and finishing appliances to Prosthetic application skills. Each area will be taught by a mixture of demonstration, practical hands on and further assisted practical followed by open Q&A sessions at the end of each day.Where appropriate, we will arrange for related industry guest speakers to visit and give a small talk about what they do and their thoughts on the current industry.
Dates: Monday 6th September- Friday 15th October 2010
Location: Hybrid Fx School, High Croft Mills, Guiseley, Leeds
Cost: £5,500 inc VAT
Hybrid Fx School -Three Week Character and Creature Creation Course
The Course takes you through the process of designing and creating full head creature or character masks and static displays.Learning all the key skills from lifecasting, sculpture, mouldmaking in a range of specialist materials, duplication in various flexible and solid materials, colouring, finishing and hair punching / application. Your final work is yours to take home with you.It is great as a stand alone course or as an addition to our comprehensive Prosthetic Makeup Fx Course.
Dates: Monday 19th April - Friday 7th May 2010
Location: Hybrid Fx School, High Croft Mills, Guiseley, Leeds
Cost: £2,750 Inc Vat
CCTV Training Programme - Call for Applications
A major new personal development and training programme - CCTV - is being launched to help the next generation of creative leaders adapt and thrive. This ground-breaking, 12-month scheme will equip a select group of 25 ambitious executives and producers with the skills - both personal and professional - needed to help steer the TV industry into the digital future.
*Deadline for applications: 18 March 2010
Visit www.cc-tv.org.uk to apply.
Over the year, the 25 successful applicants will receive one-on-one mentoring from a senior industry figure, personal development coaching, strategic business training, seminars, workshops and events hosted by many of the creative industry's best known names including Jana Bennett, Pete Smith, Peter Fincham, Wayne Garvie and Stephen Garrett.
Skillset Multiplatform Bursaries
Skillset is investing £200,000 in multiplatform skills by offering bursaries worth up to £800. With 500 places available on 38 courses, Skillset can pay up to 80% of your multiplatform training costs. Multiplatform Bursaries are funded by the Skillset TV Freelance Fund. Applications close on 26 March 2010.
More infoHybrid Fx School - One Day Introduction to Prosthetic Makeup Course
A fun but informative one-day course that introduces attendees to the complex world of Special Makeup Effects.From understanding basic Sculpting & Mould Making, to applying and coloring simple Wounds, Scars etc and working with Beards & hair work, our hands on sessions will give attendees a chance to see just what is involved in being a Makeup Effects Artist.
Date: Saturday 8th May 2010, 10.00am - 6.00pmStudent Capacity: 6 Maximum
Price: £300 inc Vat
Suitability: Beginners looking to learn a few introductory Makeup Fx Skills. Bookings / more info
BBC Multiplatform Courses - 50% - 80% Funding available from Skillset
The Skillset TV Freelance Fund is offering Multiplatform Bursaries on a pre-selected range of courses covering key multiplatform skills in the industry. The BBC Academy courses listed below are included within this range and are available at a subsidised rate to successful applicants.
The amount of the subsidy varies, depending on whether you're employed or work as a freelancer. You'll get:
* 80% of the costs, up to a maximum of £800 if you are a freelancer; or
* 50% of the costs, up to a maximum of £500 if you are in permanent employment
Introduction to Multiplatform, 1 day
15th March 2010, BBC London
Full course Fee £230
Shooting for the Web, 1 day
22nd March 2010 - BBC Manchester
Full course Fee £490
Project Management for Multiplatform (TV Projects only), 1 day
24th March 2010, BBC Birmingham
Full course Fee £370
Indie Training Fund - short course programme
The Pact short course programme is back with a new name, a new brand and a new venue. The Indie Training Fund brings you all the same popular courses and tutors with plenty more top quality training at great prices.
More info / bookingsThe Bureau Film Company: Call out for writers and producers
SOS is searching Europe for the screenwriters and producers of tomorrow! Are you a producer looking for emerging writing talent? Are you a screenwriter looking to connect with producers and the film industry at large?
Writers will develop their selected one page idea to a full length script, which will then receive feedback from financiers and key industry figures. Alongside this the producers will build their development skills, and new relationships with the participating writers, producers, and industry contacts.
The training will run from May until December 2010 and is made up of 3 intensive workshops and a number of one to one virtual script meetings. The workshops will take place in the UK, France and Belgium, and will be composed of a range of writing exercises, master-classes, and peer to peer development.
More info / applications
The Benefits of Shooting RED
Screen Yorkshire, in partnership with The Creative Exchange Derby and ProVision will be running 2 x 3 hour seminars on the benefits of shooting on RED. These seminars will covers topics such as:
- Why choose RED for your next production?
- RED Basics
- What is RED and why has it changed film production?
- Intro to the kit and modular system
- How RED affects the roles of the camera crew?
- What can we do with RED?
Date: Thursday 25 March 2010. Session 1: 13:30 - 16.30;
Session 2: 17.30 - 20.30
Venue: The training room at 102 Kirkstall Road (the ITV Calendar building)
Cost: Places are free but limited. You must register to attend.
ENTERTAINMENT MASTER CLASS - The Executive Education Programme
The Entertainment Master Class is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to education for executives in the entertainment television industry. It offers a unique executive education programme created by the industry for the industry. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders, seek advice and guidance, share ideas, and build rewarding networks and professional alliances in this vibrant global community.
This is a one-year programme with four modules: Games & Game Shows; Reality, Documentary and Fact Ent; Sitcom and Comedy; Entertainment Management. The first module takes place in Berlin, 07 - 13 May 2010.
Digital Imaging Technician Course
A RED Digital Imaging Technician is a new role and is an essential RED shoot crew member requiring expert knowledge of the system and the images it creates. A RED DIT on a digital shoot is responsible for the technical set up of the camera and also the safe keeping and processing of the digital data created. This course is designed primarily for camera crew and Directors of Photography but it will also be very useful for Directors, Producers and Editors who wish to expand their knowledge digital cinema production.
Dates: 17-18 March; 21-22 April; 19-20 May; 10-11 June 2010; 12-13 July 2010
Fee: £300+VAT - funding criteria must be met
Location: The University of Derby
Gen Up North - In Search of Yorkshire's Digital Talent
The north of England's three Regional Screen Agencies have teamed up with TRC Media to bring you GEN UP NORTH - a unique training programme for emerging digital creatives in the North of England. Over five weeks, nine participants will learn from industry practitioners about the digital media landscape, taking part in creativity workshops and receiving coaching on professional development. The programme also includes placements at Channel 4, the BBC and local digital media companies.
Places will be highly competitive but if you are a recent graduate (or new to the industry) with real talent for creating digital content, we would like to hear from you.
The course runs from Monday 24 May - Thursday 24 June 2010.
*Application deadline: 29 March 2010
Screenhouse Training: Single Camera Directing
Learn how to tell a story on tape with Bafta winning director, Patrick Titley. Find out how to be sure you get all the shots you need for the edit, how to get the best out of artistes, presenters and crew, how to do the most effective recce, problem solving, how to get the best out of cameras, lighting, sound and other available equipment; all the skills you need for shooting on location for TV, Video, Film, Broadcast or Corporate. Requires some knowledge of video.
Dates: 23 March and 30 June 2010 (09.15 - 16.30)
Cost: £175 +VAT
Factual TV Research, Scripting and Ethics
Tutor: Susan Walls, Bafta -inning producer and author of the book, How to Get a Job in TV. Learn how to be the best TV Researcher, the secret of good script writing, understanding the demands of the role, dealing with copyright & risk assessment, working with presenters, ethical dilemmas. Suits researchers, new entrants, graduates and other production staff.
Date: 23 June 2010 (09.45 - 16.00)
Cost: £125 + VAT
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SERIES PRODUCER PROGRAMME 2010
Applications are invited from experienced network television producers based in the Nations and Regions of the UK for the 2010 Series Producer Programme (SPP), a strategic partnership between TRC media and the BBC Academy.
The SPP is a blue chip training initiative designed to hone the skills of network produces to the level of series producer. Over the course of 12 months, the SPP will provide a range of top flight master classes and specialist training in series producer skills, and offer unprecedented access to commissioning editors and key decision makers within the BBC.
The programme begins in April 2010 and is open to freelance, independent and BBC staff producers with a strong track record in network television. It is aimed at indigenous talent in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English Regions and those who wish to relocate to live and work in the Nations and Regions.
The SPP is fully funded by the BBC. The deadline for applications is 02 March 2010.
NORTHERN EXPOSUREThe Production and Creatives database
The North of England's Regional Screen Agencies have come together to launch NORTHERN EXPOSURE - the production and creatives database showcasing the brightest talent from the North of England in the media production and creative industries. Northern Exposure holds details of over 3,000 freelancers and companies working in the production and creative industries available for your next production. It is completely free to use and easy to access.
Screen Yorkshire has worked in partnership with Northern Film + Media and Northwest Vision and Media to bring you Northern Exposure.
www.northern-exposure.info
