The Briefs

The Future Producers are working with Watershed to inspire young creative talent through a diverse range of projects, festivals, events, seasons and online content creation. Our twenty aspiring creatives all had to pitch ideas for one of six challenges we set and we have now formed teams that will be working together on specific seasons or projects. The briefs they are responding to are:

1. To design, promote and deliver two fun family film inspired workshops as part of Encounters festival that will be programmed alongside the Children’s Jury Screening on Saturday 18th September at ArnolFini. It should be a playful engaging activity that will encourage a parents and kids to come along and see the films that are featured in the Children’s Jury.

2. To programme and promote workshops designed to inspired young creative talent stimulated by the Encounters Fresh Flix: Shoot from the Hip selection. The workshops will take place on Saturday 18th September and could be practical filmmaking (e.g. camera workshop/ crowd-funding for films/ animation etc) or focused around a theme within the films.

3. To plan a programme of activity as part of the Family Arts Festival within the October half term holidays. The activity should bring the work happening in the Pervasive Media Studio (PMS) to a family audience.  The PMS research lab brings together a network of over 100 artists, technologists and academics to explore the future of mobile and wireless media.

4. To create an Immersive Dark Arts cinema event as part of the BFI Gothic season at the end of November. Through the event we want to appeal to and engage 18 – 25 year olds who would not normally attend Watershed. You need to dream up some dark, curious and magical happenings that will give routes into watching films at Watershed for non-attenders.

5. To increase the audience for the Electric December films both on and offline. You can work with the Watershed online publishing team and explore how the films are curated both on the existing website and through other platforms.  You will also have the chance to work with the events and programming team to deliver the Electric December launch party and develop ideas around where else the Electric December films could be screened.

6.  To document the four seasons being programmed and produced by the Future Producers – Encounters, Family Arts Festival, BFI Gothic and Electric December. Working across mediums and presented on Dshed  it could include coverage of events, interviews, curated related archive content, profiles and audience responses.