Ideas Generation for Film & TV for Mayo Ideas Week with Pam Relton
An Ideas Generation workshop for Film and T.V professionals will take place on Friday 2nd October in Macalla Hall, Lough Lannagh, Castlebar, Co. Mayo from 9.30 am to 5pm. This innovative event, part of Mayo Ideas Week, is an initiative of Mayo Arts Offices’ Film Mayo and Inspiration Station. The training will be given by Pam Relton, one of the UK’s leading media trainers who specializes in creativity courses.
Pam Relton is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and her clients include BBC Academy, ITV, Creative Skillset, the Indie Training Fund, Endemol, Tiger Aspect and other leading independent television companies. She also works internationally with professionals in film, scriptwriting, animation and cross-platform teams.
Pam worked as a BBC researcher and broadcast journalist on a wide range of output including documentaries, features and consumer programmes. Her career in television has ensured that she has wide practical experience of programme production and she draws on this expertise in her training events through the use of stories, analogies and real examples. Her passion for training stems from a real commitment to helping people gain opportunity and inspiration. This led to her interest in creative thinking and accelerated learning techniques.
She continues to work on programmes to keep her skills up-to-date, mainly in ideas development for companies in the independent sector. As a consultant, she works on training and development projects for Creative Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the creative media industries in the UK.
This one day course will look at Generating Ideas; Storytelling and Digital Research techniques. The course is aimed at those working in film and television.
- Ideas - how to find them and how to generate them
- Storytelling - What makes a good story?
- Digital Research - Strategies for Research and widening your Sources of Information
If you are interested in applying for a place on this free workshop, please contact Film Mayo for an application form. Application deadline is Friday 28th August at 5pm and participants will be notified by Friday 4th September. Limited places are available at this free event.
Film Mayo: 094 90 47471 email: filmmayo@mayococo.ie.
Mayo Arts Office: 094 90 47558, email: mayoarts@mayococo.ie
Mayo Ideas Week is a week long series of idea generation, entrepreneurship and business events, hosted by the development and enterprise support agencies and organizations in County Mayo. Mayo Ideas Week takes place from Friday 25th September to Friday 2nd October 2015. For full details of all events please see brochure at www.westbic.ie