Excellent, it’s all falling into place.

I might be committed as a Producer to a specialist factual or historical documentary programme of all things. :D

Jonathan has been developing a programme idea about a pre-World War II visit from a Nazi battleship and he has very kindly offered me a role on the crew as Producer.

I must admit that I do think the project is a little ambitious; there is talk of a trip to Poland as well as drama reconstruction and archive footage but I suppose he who dares wins and there is no doubt in my mind that if Jonathan chooses to take the 10min (masters project) version as a taster tape to a company like Denhams, TwoFour or even Regional BBC that he would attract attention.

It’s a great story, brilliant access and Jonathan is turning out to be a proper bloodhound for sniffing out archive documents and footage!

Also for me it is nice to actually be making a programme about Cornwall for a change, I've steered away from it before for fear of appearing lazy and staying on the front doorstep!

Here is a link to Remember Falmouth which is run by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society which holds lots of lush, 'ye olde worlde', images of Falmouth back in the day!

New Unit! Number 150…..

So, everyone is back from Easter and we are beginning our penultimate module of the MA TV Production course (“time flies when you are having fun!”)

Unit 150 is essentially a 5 week preparatory module to set us up our final Masters projects and the dissertations.

I would still really like to go into TV Development & Commissioning as my ultimate career goal so I speculate (not wanting to jinx mind!) that this unit might prove to be my cup of tea!

5 weeks of brainstorming TV programme ideas, gaining access to interesting contributors and researching the dissertation is a great way to consider what editorial content is creating great contemporary TV…NOW!

However, five weeks may sound like ample time but really in reality, minus Queen’s birthdays, bank holidays, bit of kafuffle with forming crews and a couple of networking events it really isn’t that long.

Little apprehensive because your final masters projects should ideally be your calling card into industry and I really want to be part of two glossy, televisual and generally fantastic programmes.

PS: I was looking on the ever so helpful Guardian Careers website and I found this quite interesting interview from 'Jason Mitchell' - who was back in 2009 a 'Development Producer' for Maverick Television...

Isn't he lucky? Do you think he'd swap roles? I could do his job and he could be a student again?!

Working as a Development Producer