Industry Session Bucharest
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International Factual Co-Production: 2012 and Beyond – Are you ready?
What are the demands of the int. co-production market as we go into 2013?
What is the current state of the global factual environment?
What are broadcasters looking for from factual programming?
Who is looking for stories and talent from this region and what are they looking for?
Documentary Campus is honoured to present a weekend industry event in Bucharest on 10th and 11th November 2012 in cooperation with DocuMentor, Romanian documentary filmmakers association with support from Romanian National Centre for Cinematography (CNC).
This weekend is for anyone who wishes to learn more about and to work in the international factual and documentary market.
While Saturday is devoted to workshops focussing on practical and creative skills, Sunday will be dedicated to wide ranging panels and thought provoking Q and A sessions on the key players in documentary broadcasting in Western and Eastern Europe.
Out of the 4 workshops we’re presenting to you on Saturday, you can choose
- one you would like to attend on Saturday Morning and
- a second one you would like to attend on Saturday afternoon.
The 4 workshops will run parallel on Saturday morning and will be repeated for a new set of participants after lunch. Seats will be given on a first come, first serve basis. However, we try to accommodate your preferences in the best possible way. Register here & sign in for the workshops
Learn first-hand how to develop your skills and knowledge from people who are operating in these markets on a daily basis.
WORKSHOP 1: What else does it do? - Developing and creating ideas for multiple platforms.
- Kate Quilton, Channel 4, UK
International broadcasters are demanding that ideas are no longer commissioned just for the TV screen and your programme needs to address this, where do you start? A creative brainstorm about how one takes a TV idea and develops it for outside the TV.
Channel 4 is universally acknowledged as one of the leading broadcasters in pushing the boundaries of multiplatform commissioning and broadcasting.
Kate Quilton is one of a team of commissioning editors for multiplatform programmes there and has worked across a number of differing projects in this fast moving area.
This is not about the technology but what are the challenges and freedoms multiplatform programming brings to creativity.
PREPARATION: Participants will need to bring at least one idea in development -can be very early development – for a programme or film idea that can be used in the workshop to brainstorm and develop multiplatform applications.
WORKSHOP 2: In episode 2....and then what happens? –Developing Series and Formats from a Single Idea
- Elizabeth McIntyre, Discovery International, UK
Commissioning series and formats have become the norm for the majority of broadcasters in recent years; many no longer commission the single one off documentary. How do you develop an idea into a series or a format for use in many territories?
The goal of this workshop is to work with participants to brainstorm ideas for series and formats. It will focus on some of the key Discovery genres, namely adventure and endurance, engineering content, popular science and car programming. How do you decide whether the idea is strong enough to go beyond the hour and how do you tackle creatively the challenges this throws up.
Liz McIntyre is head production and development for factual programming for Discovery networks international. She has produced hundreds of hours of programming both series, formats and one offs for discovery. She comes from a production background originally.
PREPARATION: Before the workshop, can you bring along some materials that have interested you and that you think might help in a brainstorm either for yourself or to stimulate the group. Please bring with you newspaper and magazine cuttings, YouTube links or DVDs or cuttings, or just list, your favourite formatted TV shows – whatever the genre, not necessarily from the genres listed above, (Adventure / Endurance / Cars / Engineering & Pop Science) as you will be talking about how all programme formats are useful to be inspired by. Also think about examples of new on screen talent. You will be given access to a screening room with some relevant programmes to view ahead of the workshop.
WORKSHOP 3: Pret a porter or haute couture? - Reversioning and repackaging for international broadcasters.
- Edwina Cooper, Senior Producer Discovery Networks
Whether as part of the production process or applied to a finished film, how can you tailor your film to the varying needs of multiple broadcasters and multiple sales, how do you make your film fit a theatrical release and the needs of a commercial slot time of less than 50 minutes? How can you make your finished film more international in its audience appeal or tailored to a specific audience? What is meant by versioning and repackaging and what the most creative and economical way to do it?
Edwina is an expert in all forms of versioning for TV. In this workshop she will show a number of different techniques for creating different versions of the same show with real examples from her case book.
PREPARATION: if you have a specific programme or versioning example you wish to work on please bring it along to the workshop. It will need to be at least at a shooting script stage not just a one page treatment and of course any visuals or trailers you might have. For those of you who don’t have anything specific to work on, examples of programmes to be reversioned or repackaged will be provided.
WORKSHOP 4: Fact or Fiction? The how and when to produce Hybrid Documentaries
- Joanne Reay, Terra Mater, Austria
Fact is often stranger than fiction and for this reason, many documentaries have told tales with a narrative so incredible, it feels like something dreamed up by Hollywood. But now there is a new move to blur the line between documentary and feature film even further, with factual films increasingly looking to dramatization to tell parts of the story. Actors and real participants find themselves shoulder to shoulder within one story. But what does this mean for the reputation of documentaries as being "real"? What are the dangers of "dramatic license" undermining the audiences’ faith that documentaries "tell it as it is?" The workshop will look at the benefits of using dramatization as a documentary tool and explore the impact that this "hybrid" trend may have on documentary making as a whole.
PREPARATION: There is no preparation required for this workshop.
Register here & sign in for the workshops
Dates & Programme
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 - Sun, 11 Nov 2012
Location
Hotel Marshal Garden
50 B, Dorobantilor Boulevard
District 1
Bucharest
Fon: +40-21-3194444
Fax: +40-21-3194445
Email: reception@marshalgarden.ro
Website
Want to know how to get there? Please see section Hotel and Travel for the best & cheapest way to Bucharest.
Fee
Thanks to our local partners and all their support, we are able to open the doors of the event and offer you the possibility to enhance your skills without registration fee.
Registration is open until the 8th November. Register here & sign in for the workshops
Experts
- Ioana Avadani Executive Director, Center for Independent Journalism, Bucharest, Romania
- Edwina Cooper Senior Reversioning Producer, Discovery Communications, London, UK
- Florin Iepan Director / Producer, Sub-Cult-Ura, Timisoara, Romania
- Tom Kirk Sound Recordist / Additional Camera, Chaconna Films, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Elizabeth McIntyre Head of Production & Development, Factual DNI, Discovery Networks, Discovery House, Factual Western Europe, London, UK
- Suzanne McKenna Head of Science, History and Documentaries, BBC Worldwide, London, UK
- Aurelian Nica Original Production Manager, HBO Romania, Bucharest, Romania
- Kate Quilton Multiplatform Commissioner, Channel 4, London, UK
- Joanne Reay Executive Producer Cinema, Terra Mater Factual Studios, Vienna, Austria
- Heribert Schneiders Commissioning Editor, MDR, Leipzig, Germany
- Ingmar Trost Director and Producer, Sutor Kolonko, Cologne, Germany
- Marian Williams Independent Broadcast Consultant, , London, UK
- Anna Wydra Producer, Otter Films, Warsaw, Poland
Hotels
Accommodation & Travel
By referring to Documentary Campus, rooms can be booked at a special rate in the following hotels:
Hotel Marshal
Str. Dr. Emanoil Bacaloglu Nr. 2
Bucharest
Hotel Marshal Website
Booking Request: Angelica Jonea
Email: angelica.jonea@hotelmarshal.ro
Phone: +40-722-306-169
Room Rates:
Single: 55,- Euro
Double: 65,- Euro
Booking deadline 01 November 2012
Hotel Minerva
Str. General Gheorghe Manu Nr. 2-4
Bucharest
Website Hotel Minerva
Booking Request: Romica Tamas
Email: reservation@minerva.ro
Phone: +40-728-979-388
Room Rates:
Single: 51,- Euro
Double: 60,- Euro
Booking deadline 01 November 2012
Hotel Duke
Bd. Dacia nr. 33
Bucharest
Website Hotel Duke
Booking Request: Marilena Barbu
Email: marilena.barbu@hotelduke.ro
Phone: +40-21-317-41-86
Room Rates:
Single: 58,- Euro
Double: 68,- Euro
Booking deadline 01 November 2012
Hotel Opera
Str. Brezoianu nr. 37
Bucharest
Website Hotel Opera
Booking Request: Alina Pescaru
Phone: +40-754-070-370
Email: alina.pescaru@thhotels.ro
Room Rates:
Single: 50,- Euro
Double: 60,- Euro
Booking deadline 25 October 2012
Hotel Venezia
Str. Pompiliu Eliade Nr. 2
Bucharest
Website Hotel Venezia
Booking Request: Alina Pescaru
Phone: +40-754-070-370
Email: alina.pescaru@thhotels.ro
Room Rates:
Single: 50,- Euro
Double: 60,- Euro
Booking deadline 25 October 2012
Hotel Central
Str. Brezoianu Nr. 13
Bucharest
Website Hotel Central
Booking Request: Alina Pescaru
Phone: +40-754-070-370
Email: alina.pescaru@thhotels.ro
Room Rates:
Single: 50 Euro
Double: 60 Euro
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