Creative Business News
Channel Four Inspiration Day
The Channel 4 ‘4Talent Kick Start’ event was held on the 27
October for aspiring media professionals, led by Glynn Ryland,
Industry Talent Specialist of C4 and one of YSJU award
winning graduates. We included our entire first year of film and
television students including 22 external delegates all of whom
took part in digital film making strands, presenting and journalism
strands with lead industry professionals.
Three Faculty of Arts students have now been
successful in obtaining work industry placements facilitated by
Lucille Howe, published writer and television presenter, who led
the Journalism masterclass for C4.
Aesthetica Film Festival Master classes
Over the day the Creative Business team
welcomed over 250 International and UK wide Film Makers. We hosted
the master-class programme delivered by a star studded team of
international media, television and festival professionals
including Claudette Godfrey Head Programmer for the internationally
acclaimed South by South West Film Festival, Alex Williams; with
over 20 years of industry experience; Alex has worked as a
storyboard artist, character designer and animator on more than 30
feature films for Disney, Warner Bros, Fox, Dreamworks and Sony,
recent work including the CGI for Harry Potter and Ivana Mackinnon
- The Associate Producer of Hollywood blockbuster ‘Slum-Dog
Millionaire.’ We also ensured our final year BA and MA FTV students
and BA Media were allocated free places to at least one master
class. We also offered discounted passes to the whole
festival for all of our Faculty of Arts students.
Enterprise Tuesdays
In November, the final Enterprise Tuesday
event of the series took place at York St John University. The
Creative Business team welcomed 42 external delegates to hear
Keith Evans and Teo Greenstreet lead a seminar on economic and
environmental sustainability challenges in business. We closed the
evening with wine and networking. This culminates a year of monthly
network working event that has proven to be a huge success. We will
launch our new series in January 2012. More details to follow.
If you have any questions about our events and projects please
do not hesitate to contact us: E:creativebusiness@yorksj.ac.uk
or T: 01904 876502.