Storylining workshop with Jonathan Clements

Date - Saturday 27 March (this workshop has moved from 20 March)
Location - ATRiuM
Time: 11.00-14.00

Booking is a must - register below

In this workshop, delegates will be put through a real-life brainstorming process to create the outline of a new animated TV show for a fictional corporation. They will experience the joy of new ideas and the misery of unwelcome truths from company accountants. Their storyline will be subjected to due diligence from many real-world perspectives – as well as standard craft concerns, they will be made to consider the effects of design, packaging, advertising, budgets, spin-offs, legal issues, broadcast paradigms, the foreign markets, audience reception and earlier precedents.

The process will be an exercise, but the directives will be all genuine decisions made by real-world companies.

Aspiring writers, designers, managers and animators are all welcome – as in the real world, the workshop will comprise group efforts to reach saleable solutions.

Let's write a story! And then let's watch head office screw it up. And then let’s write another story, so we can all keep our jobs.

Prerequisites: You will need a pen, some paper and a brain. Some knowledge of Japanese animation is helpful but certainly not essential.

Jonathan Clements
Jonathan Clements is the author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade. He has worked as a consultant, scriptwriter and translator for clients including BBC Two, Sci-Fi, National Geographic, Manga Entertainment, and Momentum Pictures. He is a PhD candidate at Swansea Metropolitan University, writing an industrial history of Japanese animation.

If you would like to book a place on this FREE workshop please email Hannah with your name, course and year by 5pm Friday 12th March 2010