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Industry to consult on TV training project

The Australian Film, Television and Radio School is conducting a research project to look at television industry training needs.

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The Australian Film, Television and Radio School is conducting a research project to look at current and future television industry training needs.

Face-to-face interviews will take place between leading TV producers and Network executives and project co-ordinators Denise Eriksen and David Brown.

CEO Sandra Levy said, “AFTRS is renowned in Australia as the leading educational institution for the film industry but our work in television is less well known and, arguably, less well developed. This is a priority area for the School and we want key figures in the television industry to help shape our development. This study is their opportunity.”

Industry practitioners can take part through the research study questionnaire at www.aftrs.edu.au

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  1. Training needs from whose perspective? A brief list from mine:

    * Being able to check that the correct picture and/or caption is applied to the footage. The ABC is one of the worst offenders here (mostly with incorrect captions on talking head footage).

    * Not obscuring the relevant part of footage with a caption, watermark, or some other screen spam. Again, the ABC is pretty bad. As an example, quite often they have slapped a big fat graphic over the hole that some golfer putts his/her ball into.

    * Vision switching at MediaHub. Perhaps this is simply crap tech but FFS, *every* program I watch on ABC2 or GO! suffers from problems when switching from ads to program. How many months has it been now?

    * A decent understanding of game theory for network programmers. Sounds hi-falutin but basically if you program similar shows against ones on another network, you will both end up worse off. The best tactic is actually to “co-operate” by not trying to wreck the other network’s business. Coles and Woolworths have understood this for years which is why they have their sales at the same time yet between them continue to control 75% of the market.

    * Whilst on program schedulers, perhaps those that work for a commercial network can be taught to not be so immediately reactive when a show doesn’t quite get the desired ratings but instead, give it a chance to build an audience (Ben Elton LfPE notwithstanding). This presumes that the program was given a sensible timeslot in the first place.

    There are plenty more but that will do for now.

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