Workshop: Losing It: our mental health emergency - taking care of vulnerable contributors

The recent critically-acclaimed Channel 4 series Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency had extraordinary access to patients and healthcare professionals. Hear how the team secured - but more importantly kept - that access. 

Quite rightly duty of care for our contributors is top of the agenda - this session will focus on best practice, examining the process involved in making a series like Losing It... from pre-production to post TX. It will cover getting access to a Trust, filming with vulnerable contributors, compliance and duty of care to contributors, getting this series on air, contributor care around TX and also aftercare. 

The floor will be open to Q&A.

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

Olly Lambert: The seven rules for war reporters and anyone else who is making a film)

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

Getting the best out of your contributors with Sue Bourne

Speaker
 
Sophie Jones has produced and directed documentaries including Grierson-shortlisted One Born Every Minute, 24 Hours in A&E, and BAFTA-nominated The Undateables. The last few years of her career has taken her into every area of the NHS as series producer on BAFTA-nominated 24 Hours in A&E for Channel 4, Hospital for BBC2 and Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency for Channel C4. 
 
Dearbhaile Flynn acted as senior AP on Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency for Channel 4.

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.