Creative Loop’s inaugural Student Media Festival offers a series of masterclasses and workshops at the CCA Glasgow on 11th -12th February 2010 as part of the Glasgow Film Festival.
The events will include sessions from recognised industry experts with a particular focus on the craft and technical skills where Scotland’s colleges excel. There will be a strong employment focus to the event with recent graduates returning to explain how they got their break, and plenty of opportunities for to network with industry and learn how best to pitch ideas and proposals. The event aims to provide a platform for the best of emerging talent across television and interactive media with industry.
Confirmed sessions include Los Angeles based Final Cut-Pro guru Larry Jordan who will deliver a session on using final cut–pro, Glasgow based Hot Pot Media will deliver a session on Multiplatform in broadcasting and writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson providing insight into his work including the adaptation of Men Who Stare At Goats for the big screen with a cast which included George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey.
Creative Loop works alongside the creative media industries in Scotland to improve the quality of training within colleges and improve the quality of graduates entering the creative media industries. Creative Loop is one of three industry-recognised Skillset Media Academies in Scotland and the only UK academy that is wholly comprised of colleges.
Creative Loop is supported by the Scottish Funding Council
Image: Jon Ronson (see below for details)
Thursday 11th February- CCA 5 / 10:00 – 11:30am / 12:15 – 1:45pm
Jonathan Harrison
Jonathan will deliver his acclaimed Lighting on the Run workshops, not to be missed! In each session there will be a chance to win a gift worth £30 from DEDO lighting.
Jonathan has extensive professional experience in lighting design and consultation as well as running various training workshops. His clients range from No 10 Downing Street, the Home Office to BBC World service and coverage of The Brits. He has won multiple Awards for the following critically acclaimed productions: "Thatcher the Downing Street Years": Best Documentary of the Year 1994, Best Independent Film of the Year 1994, BAFTA Nominated. "Primo Levy, Memory of the Offence" :Merit Award - Religious Broadcasting. "Living In a Box", RTS Spirit of London Award.
Thursday 11th February-CCA 4 / 10:00 – 11.30am
Friday 12th February- CCA 4 / 11.45 – 1.15pm
Ray Hardie
As part of his workshops looking at 'technology in news' Ray will be discussing live broadcasting, shooting and editing news packages in the 24 hour news environment and working with the latest digital and nonlinear technologies. He will also demonstrate the use of advance technology used during his coverage of the 2001 Afghan war and how the Internet and mobile communications has revolutionised the news production industry.
Ray Hardie is a graduate of Dundee College where he completed his HNC Media Studies. He has since had a professional career working for broadcasting companies such as Sky News, BskyB, Cameraman/Editor (1992-2009).
Examples include of his work include:
Thursday 11th February- CCA 4 / 12:15 – 1:45pm / 2:00 – 4:00pm
Lucinda Broadbent, Documentary Director and Executive Producer
The Skillset Career Development Workshops delivered by Lucinda Broadbent will provide careers information, advice and guidance for the Creative Media Industries. The sessions will include the following topics:
Lucinda is a Director who has been working in the industry for 17 years, with credits on C4, BBC 1, 2, 4, STV and Sky1. She specialises in arts and human rights documentaries, which have been broadcast both on Channel 4 and the BBC and has a wide knowledge of all the sectors of the industry in Scotland.
As a freelancer Lucinda has worked mainly for companies based in Scotland but has worked for a variety of independents throughout the UK and in-house at the BBC. She has extensive experience of working overseas.
Recently she has been working as an Executive Producer and has tutored on Pitching Forums all over Europe and in India.
After 15 freelance years Lucinda is now part of the Scottish indie media co-op, a workers’ co-operative producing both TV and non-broadcast corporates for charities and NGOs.
Thursday 11th February- CCA 5 / 2:00 – 5:00pm
This is a session on pitching and commissioning for factual content in Scotland with a distiguished panel of Ewan Angus BBC Scotland, Claire Mundell Synchronicity films and David Strachan Tern Television, who will provide an insight into on commissioning in Scotland followed by an opportunity for selected students to pitch factual ideas to the panel. Creative Loop will support two student winners of the Commissioning and Pitching Session, as selected by the panel, to attend The Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) in August 2010.
Ewan Angus has worked in broadcasting for more than 20 years much of it spent producing and directing across a broad range of programmes both for BBC Scotland and for the BBC's network services. In his current role he is responsible for all television output produced for audiences in Scotland. Since June 2005 he has had additional responsibility as Head of Sport.
David has at one time or another produced religion, drama and documentary for Tern as well as spending too much time on industry politics. Loves music of all sorts, digital gadgets, decent conversation, hill walking, the cold clean air when you stepping off the plane at Aberdeen and watching happy teams working well together.
Tern is a leading UK television and digital production company based in Scotland (Aberdeen and Glasgow), Northern Ireland (Belfast) and London. Tern is an award winning factual content creator. The company ranges from returning features brands, specialist factual series', comedy animation & archive, traditional observational documentary, constructed reality and drama documentary. Tern also has a fast emerging Digital content department who create Multi Platform content which both supports TV output and is stand alone.
Current Factual output includes another BBC2 hit landscape history series with Nick Crane - 'Britannia – The Great Elizabethan Journey', C4's returning pop science RTS winner 'KNTV Sex', UKTV Style's channeldefining reality brand'The Spa of Embarrasing Illnesses', the seventeenth series of BBC Scotland's popular gardening format 'Beechgrove Garden' and regular production for BBC1's 'Songs of Praise'.
Claire spent 10 years at the BBC working at all levels from researcher to Head of Department and has extensive experience in UK-Canada co-production having produced and exec’d a 26 part co-production with Canada for BBC and CBC. Her current feature, ‘Crying With Laughter,’ the debut feature from writer /director Justin Molotnikov, just won the BAFTA Scotland Best Film Award 2009 and is playing at Rotterdam in the Bright Futures Section. When not pushing projects up hills, Claire does some consultancy and project assessment work for Scottish Screen and other Screen Agencies.
Friday 12th February- CCA 5 / 10:00 – 11.30am
Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker. His books, Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare At Goats were international bestsellers. The Men Who Stare At Goats has been turned into a movie starring George Clooney. He's also the author of two collections, Out Of The Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do. He currently writes and presents the three time Sony nominated BBC Radio 4 series, Jon Ronson On... For Channel 4, Jon has made a number of films including the acclaimed five part series the Secret Rulers of the World and the multi award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah. His most recent documentaries are Reverend Death, How To Find God, Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, and the radio documentary Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side. In the US, he is a contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life.
Friday 12th February- CCA 5 / 11:45 – 1:15pm
Rebecca Thompson Director Hot Tap Media
Tweets, apps, virals and virtuals, and what the broadcasters mean about multi-platform commissioning.
Hot Tap Media, a multiplatform production company with a focus on educational content and co-productions for the broadcast industries, was set up by digital producer Rebecca Thompson in 2009. Rebecca was previously a commissioning editor for Channel 4's 4Talent Scotland initiative, where she commissioned and executively produced content for mobile, web, live event and TV. She's loves great stories on any platform, and is a firm believer that 'content is king'.
Friday 12th February- CCA 5 / 2:00- 4:00pm
Larry Jordan
This 2 hour workshop aimed at students and new users of Final Cut Pro will cover the following:
Larry Jordan is a producer, director, editor, consultant and Apple-Certified trainer with over 25 years video production and post-production experience. He is currently using his award-winning skills in training editors to use Final Cut Studio. He is the Executive Producer and Host of Creative Planet's Digital Production BuZZ, as well as author of five books on Final Cut Studio, along with a monthly on-line newsletter covering Final Cut Studio; now in its sixth year of publication.
As an Apple-Certified Trainer in Digital Media, specializing in Final Cut Studio, Larry combines his extensive production experience with his teaching skills to bring a wide-ranging, real-world perspective to his classes. He was one of the first four Apple-Certified trainers in the U.S. to receive credentials as an “Advanced level" Final Cut Pro instructor.
Friday 12th February- CCA 5 / 4:00- 4:15pm
Registration for the event:
The event aims to provide a platform for the best of emerging talent across film and television, radio and interactive with industry and is open to students and emerging Freelancers.
To register please email name and contact details to info@creativeloop.org clearly indicating which session you would like to attend.
