PD Bootcamp...with Jo Woolf and Sarah Kerley-Burton

Dates:

Mon 18 January 10am - 11.45am
Tue 19 January 10am - 11.45am
Wed 20 January 10am - 11.45am

This is a 3 day online course. You must attend all three sessions to complete the course.

Whether you're new to PDing, have been doing it for a while, or are on the cusp of starting this challenging role, PD Boot Camp is for you!  It aims to take your Producer/ Director skills to the next level.

Spread over 3 days, this course will give you plenty of techniques to ensure your shoots run smoothly, and deliver great content that will be a dream to edit.  The modules will cover: pre-production planning, storytelling and interview techniques, shooting essentials, and how to adjust your PD style to suit different types of factual series.

So if you'd like to know how to better handle banana skins on a shoot, you want to tell a well-conceived and rounded narrative, or you need some tips on how best to cover predictable, or even unpredictable, sequences this course is for you.

Run by two highly experienced TV professionals: Jo Woolf and Sarah Kerley-Burton, this online course is an hour and forty-five minutes a day, with homework exercises after each session. Trainees should be available to attend all three sessions.

How to apply

This course is limited to 25 trainees.  
To be considered for a place, please fill out the attached questionnaire by midnight on Wednesday 13th January.   You will be informed of the outcome of your application by Friday 15th January at 9pm.

Speakers

Jo Woolf is a Series Producer, Senior Edit Producer and TV Coach and Trainer with many years experience also working as a producer/director on a wide variety of factual and factual entertainment series.  Past credits include:  Child of Our Time, First Dates and 24 Hours in A and E, as well as many quirky one-offs, gritty ob docs and specialist factual series.

Sarah Kerley-Burton is a Series Director and Edit Producer with 20 years experience making factual programmes.  Having spent most of her career wielding a camera her directing credits include:  World's Strictest Parents, Mary's Bottom Line and Young Mums' Mansion.  As an EP Sarah's made films such as Beyond the Beach, the Hell and the Hope, Celebrity Hunted, Lodgers for Codgers, and the Savoy.

Both Sarah and Jo have first hand experience producing, directing and shooting, and also have worked with thousands of hours of other PDs' rushes in the edit, so know exactly what works and what doesn't.

 

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, ITV, 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.