Commissioning drama: the producer as co-creator - Seminar 1

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Commissioning Screen Drama For Global Audiences is the first seminar session in the ongoing series focusing on Commissioning Drama: The Producer As Co-creator.
 

The seminar series looks at the ways in which the commissioner of drama for screen, radio, and theatre occupies the role of co-creator in the development process. In Boorsma’s framing (2006) the audience combines with the work in the moment of experiencing it and thus “…takes part in the ‘co-production’ of artistic value.” In dramatic production, this relational approach to the aesthetics places a responsibility on the commissioner or producer to act on behalf of the audience, making selection decisions that will maximise the artistic value available to audiences at the moment when they experience the drama and become active co-creators of it. 

The seminar series features leading commissioners and producers in the fields of British screen drama, broadcast drama, and theatre, in conversation with writer-academics. It will explore the role of the commissioner and producer in terms of relationships with audiences, and investigate the extent to which they can be regarded as co-creators. 


GUEST SPEAKER
Paul Gilbert, Sky Drama 

Paul is a Commissioning Editor for Sky Drama, executive producing a range of shows such as Tin Star, Intergalactic, Bulletproof, Strike Back and recent hit series The Fear Index and Extinction. He was previously Head of Drama Development at Big Talk Productions where he oversaw E4 comedy-drama Youngers and the BBC1 family drama Our Zoo.
For many years he was an in-house Development Producer and Script Editor at BBC Drama Production, developing series, serials, and single dramas, including One Child, The Paradise, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Money, The Interceptor, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers and Messiah.


CHAIR
Dr Mark Fryers, The Open University

Dr Mark Fryers is a lecturer in Film and Media at The Open University. He received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2016, and has lectured at the University of East Anglia, New York University, and the University of Greenwich. He has written for peer-reviewed publications in screen media, including in the Journal of Popular Television and numerous edited collections. Mark specialises in British and American popular film and television, global screen cultures, and convergent screen medias. Mark has also worked in several capacities as a freelance worker within the film and television industries.

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https://www5.open.ac.uk/arts/research/contemporary-cultures-of-writing/events

 

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