What have you done since Promax? I’ve been fortunate to visit a couple of production companies after Promax ended. I’ve had a chat with a development producer and Fremantle. The discussion lay out the inner workings of the company. It helped me gain a better understanding of where I would want to fit in. I’ve […]
Read moreWhat have you done since Promax? Meeting some of the greats of the industry, including sitting in on an interview with S.J. Watson, nurse turned writer of ‘Before I Go To Sleep’. Meeting him helped to quell some of the fears I had about my own approach to writing but more importantly it reiterated the […]
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2nd November 2015
Nic and Miki enjoyed their Twitter Q&A, and came up with some interesting answers, plus a few funny insights into their way of working. Here’s a link to the Q&A on Storify: https://storify.com/promaxuk/twitter-q-a-with-nic-benns-and-miki-kato-of-momoco [View the story “#AskMomoco: Twitter Q&A with Nic Benns and Miki Kato” on Storify] Steve McInerny
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28th October 2015
My teacher told me (or was it my grand parents) that you needed a big OB unit to broadcast to the world (or something like that). Now, all I need is a phone with a decent camera. One of them also remarked that making a fool of yourself is to be done at home, now you […]
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13th October 2015
For those of you who thought they heard the last of me, well I am going to disappoint some and elate others. Last Thursday was the PUK nominations night an event held in high esteem on any creatives’ calendar. I mean the only things above it would be; pay day, the first time your work […]
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7th October 2015
Steve McInerny is a committee member producing the session ‘The Secrets of The Title Sequence’ As a Promax newbie it’s been exciting to get involved with the conference, and to see how somehow Pauline and Marko have wrangled ideas from at least 30 different people into a coherent lineup. The group is very welcoming and […]
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2nd October 2015
University prepared me for a lot of things; surviving on a shoestring budget, living with animals and a third thing. I was not prepared for intricacies of dealing with loads of emails that you can only learn on the job. Through ‘So You Wanna Be In Tv’ I have been working on the Promax Conference […]
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1st October 2015
As part of Promax UK’s Next Gen initiative, TheNewsMarket.com/Definition6 have joined with So You Want To Be In TV? to sponsor a PROMAX UK Periscope group, ‘The Pericasters’. The project is supported by a teaching experience before, during, and after the up-coming Promax UK conference. SYWTBITV have identified three candidates to participate in this endevour, […]
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28th September 2015
We have been busy working away on the conference schedule and it is shaping up nicely. We will announce some more sessions next week. This year, we have been looking at The Charity Challenge and People’s Choice. We want to make them fresher and give them a revamp for 2015. As Promax has been working […]
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21st September 2015
Hope that everyone has had a great weekend and that all your Promax submission are in. Looking forward to seeing who makes the nominations shortlist. Since our last blog post, we’ve been busy, busy, busy working on the conference content. This year, we are working with Picnic and MPC to create the overall visual identity […]
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9th September 2015
Welcome to the Promax UK 2015 blog – the forum that we will be using to keep you up to date with the progress of the conference and the awards. We started the production in July (what feels like decades ago). The past few months have involved visits to the BFI, emails, phone calls, coffee, favours, […]
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