DIVERSITY PRODUCTION TRAINING
It's time for new voices to be heard: a 12-month fully-funded Channel 4 training programme, aimed at disabled people and those from culturally diverse or other backgrounds currently under-represented in TV.
The scheme
You could be developing story ideas for Skins, joking with Justin on The Friday Night Project or flirting with Gordon on The F Word. You could even be whipping up widgets for one of our websites.
One thing's for sure, all your talent and passion will finally get a chance to shine. Talent. Passion. We'll say it again, because those are what matter. Not the fact that you might be disabled, from an ethnic minority, never seen the inside of a university, too old for a career change, or a hundred other reasons why you think you'll never get a foot in the door.
Now we want under-represented voices like yours to be heard. So what are you waiting for? Start pushing.
Disabled trainees on this year's Researcher Training Programme.
What you get
Training and experience. Lots of it. From on-the-job learning with your assigned production company, to structured industry training sessions at Channel 4 every month.
Depending on the genre you choose to focus on, these might include working on location and in the studio, writing treatments, script reading, archive and copyright research, sketch writing, interviewing, camera techniques, games creation, working with actors and assessing contributors for television.
On top of all that, there's a training allowance of £17,000.
Then what?
Although we can't promise you a job at the end of it, we can promise that you'll develop the skills, knowledge and network of key contacts you need to start building your media career.
Deadline
Monday 19 May 2008.
Applications are now open on 4Careers
Reference: 4TDPT2008.
See what researcher trainees got up to on last year's scheme.
