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| Start Date | Duration | Cost | Max Participant Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd November 2024 | 12 Weeks | €600 | 18 |
This course is offered in collaboration with Creative Futures Academy (CFA).
Overview
Developing ideas and pitching them successfully is the life blood of unscripted TV. On this programme, you will learn how to apply a variety of creative development skills to a factual television series project in any medium as part of a development process.
Modern day media professionals need to develop a network of production professionals whom they can draw upon to contribute to a development process. This course will help you do just that.
Aims & Objectives
The giving and taking of ‘production notes’ is a process over which the learner must have a complete command.
Finally, you will able to articulate and describe a creative project in a short time frame as part of a professional pitch. Before you can engage with the business & finance sides of any production, they must first ensure that their project is ready creatively for production.
You will also have a practical production planning session to ensure the production model you are developing is costed, feasible and ready to go into pre-production.
Taught elements of this module will enable the student produce a substantial project proposal. Each learner is required to evaluate a personal and professional strategy for the development of any work in the context of the screen industries.
The following is an indicative syllabus for this module:
- Project Briefing, Course Introduction and Project Analysis. The Commissioning Landscape – Importance of Paper Pitch – Editorial Road Map
- Genre and Channel Matching
- Creative Research & ideation (Ideation Techniques)
- Development process – The Development Engine Room
- Format Points and Story Beats
- Breaking Down a Proposal
- Set Assessment 1 – Individual – GFX and Layout
- Pitching & Proof of Concept
- Set Assessment 2 – Group (How to pitch a studio show)
- Review Pitches – (SP/SPD Master Session 1)
- Group Pitch (With Commissioning Editor)
- Master Session – Review Individual Assessments
Participant profile/Who can apply/Eligibility
This course is suitable for students who have an undergraduate qualification of 2nd Class Honours or higher at Honours Degree level. Experience of the media industries is an additional advantage.
Applicants without a Level 8 qualification may be considered provided they can demonstrate Honours Degree equivalence which can be verified through the RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) process.
CCIS Membership Support
THIS PROGRAMME IS CO FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EUFUNDS.IE)
CULTURAL & CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SKILLNET APPLICANTS MUST BE RESIDENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND TO QUALIFY FOR CCI SKILLNET MEMBERSHIP SUPPORT & NOT IN RECEIPT OF a) a bursary b) a scholarship or c) grant aid
All programmes are provided without discrimination. This includes discrimination based on gender, race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, or sexual orientation. An inclusive environment that welcomes participants from diverse communities is promoted.
Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet is required to collect Special Category Data from those who wish to avail of supports for this programme. If you are successful in your course application to CFA/IADT, you will be asked to fill out a special category data questionnaire which will be present on the registration/payment page. Further data will be collected at the following milestones.
- the course completion date
- 6 months post certification
Location
IADT, located on Kill Ave, Dun Laoghaire, is a leader in higher education with a specialist focus on the development of future makers, shapers, technologists, thinkers, storytellers and creators who lead and innovate in a changing digital world.
Tutor
Colin Pauser-Cowman Colin Pauser-Cowman is a seasoned executive producer, industry consultant and head of development for the TV and Film sector both domestically and internationally, with over 30 years of experience in senior producer / executive roles for many of Ireland’s leading independent production companies, delivering hundreds of hours of factual, entertainment and scripted TV. He was commissioning lead and head of development for Virgin Media TV and is currently working with Tourism Ireland’s International Programming Ireland Fund.
Colin is a passionate industry educator and skills developer, with over 10 years’ experience developing and delivering TV and film modules for IADT, Griffith College, MTU and TUD, while rolling out multiple professional upskilling courses through Screen Ireland, Gréasán na Meán Skillnet and Screen Producers Ireland.
Costs/fee
The fee for this 4 month course (concludes 11th Jan) is €600 per person (normally €1100).
Payment will be due in full before the course commences
Application steps
- Fill out the Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet membership application form below.
- If your CCIS Membership application is successful, you will be notified and given access to the IADT Course application link.
- Fill out the IADT Course Application
- If your Course Application is successful you will be notified and given access to a CCIS Registration/Payment Link
- You will be asked to complete a Special Category Data questionnaire before proceeding to CCIS registration/Payment
DOWNLOAD APPLICATION STEP BY STEP GUIDE HERE
CCIS membership application deadline
CCIS Membership Application Deadline: October 30th
If you experience any difficulties with your CCIS membership application please contact susantalbot@furthr.ie with a Subject Heading of: IADT | CCIS Application | [Course Name]
Important: All Course Applications To Be Made Separately via IADT. A link to this application will be sent to you if your CCIS membership application is successful.
Dates and times of the course
Commences November 2nd