Content Tabs
Ideas are currency in television - and everyone is on the search for the next exciting new idea that will transform the schedules.
Despite what many believe, anyone can come up with a killer idea, after all, the person who suggested the Bafta-winning format, Gogglebox, was the Office Runner....
Course Tutor:
Nicky Huggett is VP of Factual Development at Nutopia, one of the world’s leading independent production companies, known for series such as Nat Geo’s Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, Welcome to Earth with Will Smith and Netflix’s Bad Surgeon. She previously ran the development team at HiddenLight, an independent production company founded in 2020 by Hillary Clinton, her daughter Chelsea and Sam Branson.
She has worked in development for 20 years, across a range of genres and channels – specialising in generating ideas for the global streamers.
Nicky has also worked as a Documentary Producer, for which she has been nominated for a Broadcast and a Grierson award.
- Nicky is five stars! I can say it was one of the best I’ve attended — insightful, engaging, and filled with knowledge that I can truly put to use.
This course will equip you with fool proof methods to come up with ideas for unscripted programmes – and will give vital inside information about what the channels are actually looking for: from the UK networks to the global streaming platforms.
It will help those who want to work in development teams, but also those Producers / Filmmakers who want to get their own ideas commissioned.
It’s designed to build confidence, and will show that it’s not just about blue-sky thinking, but it’s also about developing the right idea for a channel’s brief that will give it a much better chance of ending up onscreen.
- The 5 stages of development
- Lateral thinking: what exercises can I do to unlock my creativity?
- Understanding the commissioning brief
- Ideas generation across specific genres: documentary, specialist factual and factual entertainment.
- The market: vital insights from a development expert currently working for a global production company.
Please fill in the application form, attaching your CV
If you need any assistance please contact us at shortcourses@nfts.co.uk or call us on 01494 677 903
Full payment (Freelance Rate) taken upon application