Global Entrepreneurship Week is back for 2012 and Channel 4 are hosting a series of events to raise the profile of entrepreniurship in the media industry. For one week starting on Monday 12th November, Channel 4's People Development Team will be focussing on how creatives can turn their entrepreneurial flair into a career. See below to find out what they are up to and how to get involved:
For 3 Minutes – A Project specially designed for Channel 4 during Global Entrepreneurs week, which will take fourteen candidates on the journey to understand the Media Industry from within an organisation and going it alone as an Entrepreneur.
Following on the from the success of last years pilot project ‘For 3 Minutes’ and as part of Channel 4's Global Entrepreneurship Week, People Development at Channel 4 in association with Carve Productions are offering a very rare opportunity for fourteen individuals to take part in 'For 3 Minutes' a project that will explore whether individuals are best suited working within the Media Industry in the traditional sense of working their way up as they learn within an organisation like Channel 4 or to become a Media Entrepreneur and set up on their own. This will be done in a very unique and practical way in offering the individuals involved the opportunity to take a brief from a Channel 4 Commissioner and create an idea for a programme which has multi-platform elements for TV Broadcast, Online and Social Media Outlets. We are looking for budding media entrepreneurs who are:
- Producers / Production Managers
- Directors
- Writers
- Editors
- Camera Operators
- Presenters
- Researchers
who have already started on their media journey and wanting to explore what working style would work best. Working for Channel 4 as you build up your knowledge of the industry to explore where your talent can take you OR go it alone, become a Media Entrepreneur, set up your own company or work in the industry as a freelance individual.
Hosted by TV Presenter Steve Milne; we will create two groups from candidates who will have one week to take the open brief set by the Channel 4 Commissioner and as a team come up with and create a 3-minute teaser for Channel 4. The week will involve working closely with individuals within Channel 4 and Carve Productions who will help on this journey.
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Channel 4 have teamed up with the BBC and ITV to launch an evening of panel discussion and networking with industry managers, interns and apprentices across our respective corporations. The evenings focus will be off-screen opportunities in television, so rather than the usual 'production focus' we will be talking about placements in Sales, Research, Online and Marketing, to name a few.
The event will kick off with a panel discussion with the industry leaders in the creation and promotion of paid work placements in TV including:
- Marsha Witter – Talent Scheme Manager at ITV
- Colin Campbell-Austin – People Development Manager at Channel 4
- Simon Wright – Talent Executive at the BBC
JJ an aspiring MC just arrived on London's exciting outlaw urban music scene. He's got the skills, he's got the rhymes, and he's got the drive. But there's a problem – not only is JJ a white boy from the sticks – he's also gay. And gay – in the world of hip-hop and ragga – ain't good. So when JJ resolves to come onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, taking his boyfriend Orlando with him, he knows it's going to get a bit grimy…but when the couple falls foul of the Infamous ghetto-rap crew, the Ilford Illmanics and, all of their lives are changed forever in a way no one could have ever foreseen.
Winner of the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Music at the British Independent Film Awards 2012
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