“Multi-platform” is today’s media buzzword. Computer games spawn feature films. TV programmes launch music careers. Social networks form the new hubs for boutique video content. How does a media industry that traditionally recruited and trained along clearly demarcated and segmented channels find the talent to develop the ideas of tomorrow?
Northern Lights is a four-week programme funded by Northwest Vision and Media aimed at helping develop talented individuals to thrive in such environments. It is an innovative multi-platform media production course that piloted successfully last May and has been commissioned to run again this November. This is what Lisa Strachan who attended in May had to say about it.
“Before Northern Lights I knew very little about multi-platform content and now I will be working for a interactive gaming company in London. It is a job that I don’t think I would have been able to secure without the Multi-Platform Training that I received from Northern Lights”
Sixteen new entrants to the sector will gain specialist training in one of four media disciplines, TV, Radio, Gaming and Digital Interactive working with industry partners including The BBC, Made in Manchester, Mando Group and Milky Tea. They will then apply these skills to one of four live industry multi-platform briefs. The best students will be offered the opportunity to continue their involvement through a placement in one of the four partner companies.
Moira Kean and Andrew Thomas are again running the programme. Moira has recently left the BBC with over twenty-five years of production and training experience. Andrew up until the end of last year was the eBusiness Director at Bounty, the UK’s favourite parenting club. He has over ten years interactive sector experience in the North West.
The programme begins on 2nd November and candidates are now invited to apply. Closing date for applications is Friday 25th September. Application forms can be downloaded here northern-lights-2-application-form-final.
