So You Want to Work in TV
Production Roles in TV
Get Interesting Stories onto TV – Making Documentaries with a Difference.
Making TV is all about creativity – plus someone who can organise the ideas and put the practicalities into place to get it to screen – not all creatives can do that. Those that struggle with the practical need to join forces with a business-minded friend/colleague. Anyway the marriage of creativity and business is a [...]
New Year – New TV Opportunities
Happy New Year – and may it bring whatever opportunities you desire in the world of TV and creative media! Talking of opportunities, I thought we should start the year by highlighting a few – for both the experienced producer and director and those looking for work placements, plus a chance to win Amazon vouchers [...]
How To Get Into Wildlife TV Filming
Some time ago one of our blog or Twitter followers asked about wildlife programming and what a producer did in that type of TV production – sorry, I forget who it is was! Anyway we went in search of an answer and found Mike Linley at Wildeye – an international school of wildlife filming. Mike [...]
HOW WOULD YOU PRODUCE THE BIGGEST RIVER PAGEANT SINCE 1662?
I could rant. I could jump on the BBC-bashing bandwagon but that would be too easy. Let’s instead offer up Ten Top TV Lessons to Learn From the BBC’s Production of The Biggest River Pageant Since 1662. So much more positive and constructive! A Presenter is only as good as the Producer/Production put behind [...]
A Video Guide to the Role of a Post Production Runner
What better way to find out what a TV post production runner does than go watch one in action, and what better way to illustrate the job than to put it on video. My mate Mark Sangster, top editor and a director at Editworks, one of London’s top post production houses, kindly let us into their busy centre of [...]
So What Does a TV Production Secretary Do?
So what does the role of Production Secretary in TV entail? It can be a useful point of entry into the media for an organised person. It is a common route into Production Coordinator and then upwards to Production Management but even if that is not the career route you are aiming for it’s an invaluable insight in to how a production is [...]
Working in Television Development
Television development – that utopian heaven of consummate creativity. A place where you think, create, develop and eventually give birth to a brand new idea which will eventually wow the viewers on their television screens. No, of course, it’s not that simple but you are forgiven for thinking like that. I certainly used to. You [...]
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Phillip Schofield, David Cameron and THAT List
Otherwise entitled, The Production, The Presenter & The Press Part 2 (part one is here!). Was Phillip Schofield to blame for the way in which ITV’s This Morning programme handled the interview with Prime Minister David Cameron? I won’t rehash the details – they are available all over the Internet if you want to [...]