Generating Ideas
Read Outside of Your Comfort Zone to Stimulate New TV Ideas
Step outside of your normal intellectual haunts to come up with more exciting ideas.
Get Out More to Spot Potential Factual TV Ideas
Book readings, comedy nights and open days give you access to potential new onscreen talent, and spark new ideas.
Increase Your Creativity by Expanding Your Social and Professional Networks
If you broaden your contacts outside the your social and professional circle, you will spot new trends before anyone else.
Delve into the Archives and Put a New Twist on an Old TV Format
Is there anything that could be revitalised with a modern twist?
Field Guide to: Reality TV
A group of people, carefully cast for the greatest diversity and conflict, are put together in a situation constructed entirely for television.
Field Guide to: Point of View Documentary
This subjective kind of programme is authored, and is strongly skewed towards a certain viewpoint. They tend to be films that tackle issues. The filmmaker might be the main the protagonist making their presence felt whether they are in front or behind the camera. It is an approach often favoured by independent filmmakers. Age of [...]
Field Guide to: Entertainment Programmes
Entertainment shows are usually studio-based competition shows with high production values and broad appeal, designed to be glamorous and exciting.
Field Guide to Factual Formats that Sell
A drama series is easy to recognize and categorize, but factual programming is more difficult to define. Different producers, commissioners, channels and countries use different names to describe the same thing.
DIY Famous Photographs
Flavorwire‘s Adda Birnir and the aptly named Tom Starkweather (although he appears to have bottled out of starring in the crucial McGinley pic) have re-enacted famous photographs – Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #21, Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl, Philip DiCorcia’s Mario, Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe and Ryan McGinley’s Running Fireworks – and helpfully give instructions [...]
Trend Spotting Newsletters You Should Subscribe to if You Want to Generate New TV Ideas
Harness the might of the marketing and advertising industries to help you spot ideas for factual TV programmes.
