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Making it in film, TV or games is far from easy. But if you're looking for some inspiration you've come to the right place. The Guru is BAFTA's podcast bursting with advice from the best creative minds in the industries. For videos and more head to bafta.org/guru!
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Actor Emma Stone, writer/director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz discuss Hollywood influences, the rollercoaster journey that brought La La Land to the screen and the struggle of working in a genre lots of people think they hate...
Director is one of the biggest roles on any film or TV programme. The person hired to deliver a vision and get the best out of their cast and crew in order to bring the script to life. Working with actors and capturing performance is key; how does that change when your performer is a clay sheep? Animation director Richard Starzak (Shaun The Sheep) sat down with live action TV director Richard Laxton (Him and Her, Burton and Taylor) to talk about capturing performance, onscreen storytelling and being worried you might get ‘caught out’.
‘Herding cats’ is a good way of describing the life of a producer - they are usually the first and the last people in the process, responsible for keeping everyone on track to deliver a big, creative, expensive project. How does this process change between making a game or a film? We set up Michelle Ducker producer at Media Molecule, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway with Amanda Posey, producer of BAFTA-nominated films Brooklyn and Wild.
Bringing characters to life is key to creating engaging film and TV. Casting the perfect performer or working with an actor to create the look of their character are processes which are closely linked but casting directors and hair and make up designers never meet. Until now - designer Ivana Primorac (Anna Karenina, The Hours, Steve Jobs, The Crown) meets casting director Kharmel Cochrane (Lilting, The Witch, The Levelling) to ask, what is our job?
Creating action to capture your audience is vital to film, TV and games; whether it’s a challenge which brings a gamer back to play, level after level, or a film action sequence that shoots adrenaline into the heart of a story. Games designer Catherine Woolley (Alien: Isolation, Harry Potter + The Deathly Hallows) and stunt coordinator Gary Powell (James Bond, Harry Potter, Bourne) discuss the creative crossover between their roles.
The look of film and TV involves the vision of loads of people - at different ends of the process are the costume designer and the colourist, who help create a complex and subtle palette of colour for a film. They never meet, until now. We hooked up Ex Machina + Assassins Creed costume designer Sammy Sheldon Differ and Utopia + Downton Abbey colourist Aiden Farrell to talk all things colour and costume.
1Comedian Cariad Lloyd and a cast of the UK's best improvisers write a short film based on suggestions from a live audience. Plus Cariad talks to BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Nick Helm to explore how the central tools of improv can be used by new screenwriters to open up their creativity, extend new ideas or untangle a tricky scene.
A host of TV executives discuss their pet peeves and persuade the host and the audience to send them in to oblivion in Room 101. Will it be the TV commissioning process, too many benefit shows, annoying TV theme tunes or pretentious TV terminology to be banished from the world forever? Featuring: Steven D Wright, TV Producer and Broadcast columnist (Ex on the Beach, How to be Famous, Bush Pilots), Helen Veale, Creative Director, Outline Productions (Things we Won’t Say about Race that are True, Show Me Your Garden), Nick Mather, Creative Director, Central Creative Time, Endemol Shine
A series of fast and fun talks from a range of speakers covering the entire game development process: Jana Karlikova gives tips for new studios, Oliver Hollis-Leick discusses writing for Games, Rob Morgan unpicks storytelling in VR, Dave Ranyard on reinventing the controller, Daniel Fountain gives tips for level design, hear from John Campbell of Triangular Pixels, and Jessica Saunders gives advice on audio.
The talented group of filmmakers behind this year's BAFTA-nominated British Short Films and British Short Animations share how they did it and what they've learnt. Find out more about the nominees and winners on bafta.org.
BAFTA's programmers join host Rhianna Dhillon to share their favourite moments from this year's events from screenwriters lectures to TV Craft sessions.
Every autumn BAFTA hosts the Screenwriters Lecture Series, a chance to find out how the world’s leading storytellers do their thing. This month The Guru brings together three up-and-coming writers for a debrief.
Thomas Eccleshare (recipient of BAFTA's JJ Screenwriting Bursary), Matthew Barry (whose work was showcased at a BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum in 2012) and Nat Luurtsema (whose work was showcased at a BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum in 2014 and has since been BAFTA-nominated)came to this year's lectures and went out across the UK for an encounter with their writing heroes.
Here they discuss what what they, and we, can learn from these screenwriting gurus. Published in November 2015.
If you want to know how live sports coverage is produced, wonder no more. This month, The Guru comes to you from Wembley Stadium ahead of the England-Switzerland Euro 2016 qualifier, where we find out what it takes to broadcast a football match from multicamera director Paul McNamara, Arena TV unit manager Oliver Guess, match VT coordinator Tim Goodden, and production manager Amy Lewin. We also talk to commentator Clive Tyldesley about how he came to be one of the nation’s favourite commentators.
Keeping Britain up to date with the latest news from around the world is a 24-hour job. From the eye-watering early hours of morning until the last seconds of night, news reporters, producers and directors source and broadcast stories that are constantly changing and respond to unexpected developments at the eleventh hour. So what’s it like to be behind the scenes where all the decisions are made?
This month, Sky News’ Chief Studio Director Neil Hunter and Head of Home News & Deputy Head of Newsgathering Sarah Whitehead tell us what it takes to keep up with the pace of the news cycle and members of the Sky Snapchat team talk about new ways of conveying news in the digital age. Journalist and 2012 BAFTA Scholar Ola Bisoye Dosunmu gives budding television journalists advice on getting started and keeping an open mind.
On Wednesday 29 April 2015, we were privileged to host an event with composer James Horner at the Royal Albert Hall as part of our Conversations with Screen Composers Series. Sadly, this interview with James would be one of his last before his death on 22 June. As a special episode of the BAFTA Guru podcast we are sharing this interview in full, celebrating his unique music talent and work which captured the imagination of audiences around the world.
These days, film, TV and games have a lot in common. Plenty of programmes could sit comfortably on the big screen and games companies are spending top money on epic music scores. So what’s changed for the teams pulling these productions together and what does it mean for the future of all three industries?
In this month’s Guru, Spooks star Peter Firth talks us through the differences acting for the small screen and the cinema screen, and the audio team at Creative Assembly, makers of Alien: Isolation and Total War: Warhammer, tell us how they make games sound cinematic.
Paul Greengrass is just one of many filmmakers who cut their teeth in the documentary world before moving into fiction. This month in The Guru, the director of Marvellous, Julian Farino on moving from docs to fiction. Lisa Pomeroy on 24 Hours In Police Custody and Ben Anthony on Life And Death Row.
This month in the Guru: Rhianna Dhillon visits the set of BBC's Luther to speak with make-up designer Catherine Scoble (This Is England), who explains what happens every day before the shooting starts. Matt Hill speaks to prosthetics advisor Kristyan Mallett, who talks about transforming Eddie Redmayne into Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything. Also inside: how to make the perfect fake blood. Dig in.
It's often said that sound is 50% of what you see. So listen up to this month's Guru, dedicated to the dark art of film and TV sound. Sound recordist Thomas Curley, fresh from a Best Sound win at the Film Awards, talks to Matt Hill about Whiplash's unique sound world, and sound supervisor Andy James describes the challenges of capturing the Oxford-Cambridge boat race. We also hear from the sound teams behind Gravity, Rush and Captain Phillips, and more. Hosted by Rhianna Dhillon.
This month on The Guru, host Rhianna Dhillon explores the new frontiers of interactive storytelling across TV, games and transmedia. Inside: writer Naomi Alderman (Zombies, Run!) and designer William Pugh (The Stanley Parable) explain how narrative devices in games are evolving. The Guardian's Francesca Panetta talks about interactive documentaries, and TV showrunner/writer Russell T Davies on his new series, broadcast on multiple channels and online.
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