BBC Writersroom comes to HighTide to host this session discussing new writing at the BBC.

There will be the chance to ask questions about how writers are developed and about how you can submit a script.

BBC Writersroom champions new writing talent and facilitates in-house development schemes and partnership schemes across the UK.

Saturday 1st May 2010

1 pm

A beginner’s guide to creating stories for the screen.

Learn in a day what aspiring screenwriters struggle with for years, as writer/ director James Walker from Young Film Academy introduces the basic pillars of visual storytelling structure - from the Odyssey to Lord of the Rings via Finding Nemo and Spider-man. Participants work in teams to come up with a short film storyline of their own - in time to pitch it! Members of the winning team take home a prize - and, more importantly, the tools required to take their writing to the next level.  

Saturday 1st May 2010

4 pm

Adrenaline-fuelled, live action filmmaking for up to 21 young people (ages 12-16) culminating in a screening at 4.30 pm.

The stars of tomorrow work in teams to create their story, get into costume, shoot and edit their films in time for a World Premiere screening!

Sunday 2nd May 2010

11 am - 5 pm