Channel 4 has launched its Paralympic Production Training Scheme, which will give 19 disabled people 12-month placements at independent production companies across the UK.
These placements will be at production companies including Paralympics producer Whisper, as well as Sunset+Vine, IMG, Buzz 16, and Gravity Media. In addition, there will also be placements at Brown Bob Productions, Firecrest Films, Mighty Productions, North One, Open Mike, Outline, Raise the Roof Productions, Red Sauce, True North, Waddell Media, Warner Bros., Worker Bee and 4Creative.
Successful applicants will spend a year working as trainee production co-ordinators or as researchers working on sport, entertainment, factual entertainment and factual productions, after attending a week-long ”TV Boot Camp” – where they will hear from graduates of previous schemes as well as commissioning editors who will give the lowdown on what it takes to succeed.
