Masterclass: Getting the best out of your contributors with Sue Bourne

With a focus on tips and techniques to help you get the best out of your contributors, this masterclass will offer career information and insight from award-winning documentary producer and director Sue Bourne.

Time will be allowed for Q&A chaired by documentary producer Ruth Reid. 

This session is part of our week-long focus on all things factual and documentary television. You might want to try these others too:

The seven rules for war reports (and other filmmaking) with Olly Lambert

How to get the fly on the wall to capture the real story with Simon Ford

How to get access for documentaries with Willard Foxton

Factual storytelling with Hazel Marshall

Return to work: Professional development workshops with Sam Jukes-Adams

Speaker

Documentary producer and director Sue Bourne has been in Broadcast’s Hot 100 twice in the last few years as one of Britain's top directors. Bourne’s style of documentary-making is now almost a brand - instantly recognisable and enjoyed by many all over the world. While the fifteen plus films she has produced over the past ten years capture the essence of life in contemporary society, in her gentle, thoughtful way Bourne has repeatedly managed to find the “extraordinary in the apparently ordinary” and bring her quirky, often humorous, vision to a rich variety of subjects. 

Some of Bourne's award winning and nominated films include: Age of Loneliness (BBC), Fabulous Fashionistas (C4), Mum & Me (BBC), My Street – Cutting Edge (C4) and The Falling Man (C4) 
 
This event is supported by the ScreenSkills Television Skills Fund which invests in training for the freelance television workforce thanks to contributions from the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5. 
 
It is part of a ScreenSkills programme managed by the Indie Training Fund to support freelancers to upskill and stay connected, helping keep the industry resilient in these difficult times. 
 
This session will take place online via Zoom. Click ‘get ticket’ to reserve your place: you must login or register before you are able to get a ticket for this event. A booking confirmation with a joining link to the session will be sent to you via email. 

If you are no longer able to use your ticket, we ask you to please contact support@screenskills.com  so that we can release your place. Our sessions are often oversubscribed, so we’d like to give other freelancers the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.