The first half of this workshop will teach you how to translate your vision for the screen to the page and give practical tips on creating treatments, developing scripts and most importantly - what commissioners want to see.

Following that, using case studies from film and games industries, the second half of the session will focus on how you can protect, control and exploit the content you develop and your brand. Crucially, it will highlight intellectual property ownership issues to consider when you collaborate with others.

Speakers

Ray Grewal - Creative England

Ray is part of the film team at Creative England working on the iShorts and ShortFLIX schemes as an assessor and script editor. He is also an award-winning writer who has worked in film, television, radio and theatre and has developed projects with writers such as Jeremy Brock and producers including Michael Wearing.

Ray is a lecturer in screenwriting at Regent’s University, London and a visiting tutor at Central Saint Martin's and Bournemouth Universities.

Paul Knight - Mills & Reeve LLP

Paul Knight heads up the Manchester team of Commercial, IP and IT lawyers at major national law firm Mills & Reeve LLP. Paul has experience advising on filming contracts, co-production agreements and licensing deals with the likes of Aardman Animations.

This event is part of Creative England's Manchester ProConnect programme, and is fully funded by ERDF.