Multiplatform Storytelling For Screenwriters
An intensive 4-day course to equip TV writers to develop projects for Web and mobile platforms.
Dates: 22nd and 23rd October, plus 5th and 6th November 2008
OR 4 dates in January/ February 2009 (dates TBC)
Outline: Intensive training on how to translate TV drama and entertainment concepts to the Web, mobile phones and emerging social & gaming networks. Places are limited to four per course to allow time for writers to develop their own projects, and participants will benefit from one month of on-line mentoring after the course ends.
Cost: £255 (with Skillset subsidy) or £908 (self-funded)
Funding: This course is subsidised by Skillset TV Freelance Fund. Freelance writers working in broadcast television can apply for support to reduce the total cost from £908 to £255.
Description: This intensive four-day course will equip TV writers adapt and develop their scripts for an increasingly complex multi-platform marketplace. With ever more broadcasters looking for projects with cross-platform potential, this course will help writers pitch and produce content themselves, without having to surrender their narrative and characters to others to develop.
The course introduces writers to ways of engaging with audiences across all platforms, in particular broadband web, mobile phones and emerging social & gaming networks.
Training sessions take place at our Soho centre, with presentations on the current multi-platform landscape, and an introduction to innovative formats and basic project development processes.
Afternoon workshops will explore multi-platform narrative and character-based writing, and look at ways that digital and online technology can inspire and help create new work.
Writers will be encouraged to workshop their own writing projects, developing online stories and adding multi-platform potential to existing screenplays. The course culminates with each participant presenting a short screen-based ‘pitch’ to the group for discussion.
Writers receive one month of e-mail mentoring from the course tutor.
Comments from previous participants:
"I feel much more confident pitching a multi-platform idea now and can see what will be needed to take it further. I also have the information I need to find development partners and the skills to develop my project." Kay Stonham, writer
“This is a whole new world in terms of development strategies and partners and the guidance here was invaluable for new and established writers. The group was kept very small so different levels of sophistication could be accommodated.” Tina Pepler, writer
Who would benefit? The course is specially designed for professional screenwriters, so it presumes a high level of writing expertise but only basic competence with the Web. Networked laptops – both PC and Mac – will be provided. Places are strictly limited to four per course to allow all participants extensive one-to-one help.
Funding: The course is subsidised by the Skillset TV Freelance Fund and is offered at a greatly discounted rate. The Fund is committed to helping freelancers develop multi-platform content creation skills in new and innovative ways.
Trainer: The course is led by award-winning digital writer and trainer Tim Wright. Tim is an interactive producer and a director of XPT Ltd. His writing credits include two BAFTA-winning interactive projects: the comedy self help disk 'Mind Gym' and web & email drama 'Online Caroline'. He also co-developed, devised and scripted the BAFTA nominated science-learning Web drama ‘Planet Jemma’.
In 2004/5, he created the popular collaborative web fiction and Sony Award-nominated BBC Radio 4 play 'In Search of Oldton', pioneering the use of user generated content within a narrative fiction format. Since then, Tim has consulted and written for many high profile cross media projects in the entertainment industry (BBC Castaway Remote Control, Penguin’s Malice Box Quest, Channel 4 Lost Generation).
Most recently he oversaw a radical rethink of Radio 4 Today Programme’s multi-platform strategy, and also developed and wrote the online component of the highly successful London-New York public art project The Telectroscope.
Contact Pollyanna Lindley on 020 7025 1987, or email pollylindley@01zero-one.co.uk, or apply online at http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/apply_now.htm.
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