COURSE TUTORS
FORMATS 2020
HOW TO CREATE, PACKAGE, FINANCE AND SELL A HIT UNSCRIPTED FORMAT WITHIN THE NEXT 12 MONTHSA three-day workshop and conference that covers all you need to know to develop, fund, pitch, negotiate, navigate and ultimately sell a format in the current entertainment landscape. Formats 2020 is designed specifically to help you get a show away in 2020 – how to navigate the current pressures, trends, streamers, broadcaster & new platform requirements, global landscape and finance partners.
(VAT will be added to final course price)
DURATION: Three days
COURSE DATES: 04 December 2019 - 06 December 2019
LEVEL: ADVANCED
Course outline
A three-day workshop and conference that covers all you need to know to develop, fund, pitch, negotiate, navigate and ultimately sell a format in the current entertainment landscape.
Formats 2020 is designed specifically to help you get a show away in 2020 – how to navigate the current pressures, trends, streamers, broadcaster & new platform requirements, global landscape and finance partners.
For format creators, development producers, broadcast and platform executives, distribution and business affairs executives – who want to take their global formats business to the next level.
LOCATION: Days 1 and 2 take place at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel and Day 3 at Kings Place.
Call C21 on +44 (0) 20 7729 7460 for group discounts.
Day 1
• Global trends and market analysis – insight into what people are really watching.
• Creative strategy – from the idea, through the development process to the successful execution.
• Anatomy of hits and flops – detailed case studies on what works and why shows fail.
• New opportunities – how the SVOD players are changing the landscape.
• Format clinic – workshop sessions with top format creators and producers.
Day 2
• Creating the pitch and targeting the customer – how to focus your format.
• The buyer’s perspective – what do top network executives look for?
• Money – how and where to secure development finance, format budget levels in 2020.
• The Deal – how to negotiate, what terms should you be looking for,
• Packaging and distribution – the changing shape of the international market.
• Format clinic – workshop sessions with leading deal makers and distributors.
• Networking cocktail at Kings Place.
Day 3
UNSCRIPTED ENTERTAINMENT FORUM
• Access to all sessions at the Unscripted Entertainment Forum which takes place as part of Content London 2019. This one-day conference brings together producers, distributors and broadcasters to discuss trends and opportunities in factual entertainment programming from around the world.
• Exclusively for delegates of Formats 2020: 1-on-1 ‘speed networking’ with selected speakers.