Category Archives: Creative Collaboration

Collaborative Education

Collaborative Education is a key part of improving the chances for creatives in our uncertain world, especially one dominated by freelancers and small micro companies who will need to develop new teams, and collaborate on projects using a diversity of … Continue reading

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Four Solutions for the Creative Industries

Following on from last week’s blog this article looks at some possible solutions to the issues identified in ‘Four Key issues for the Creative Industries’. Several people have commented on the fact that some of the issues I raised in … Continue reading

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Four Issues for the Creative Industries.

As the government and nearly everyone else starts to look at what Brexit means, it feels like a great time to review where the Creative Industries(C.I.) are going, and what we can do to improve and support the second largest … Continue reading

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‘Green Shoots for Family Films’

At the Children’s Media Conference (CMC) on Thursday  7th July I chaired  a session on the prospects and future of family films being produced in the UK.  On the panel with me were Pauline Burt(CEO Film Cymru/Wales); Ansgar Ahlers (director … Continue reading

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When Worlds Change – the BCre8ive Lab process

“BCre8ive has given me the opportunity to work inside the industry much earlier than I ever envisaged, so for me it’s all been personally very rewarding.“Paul McIntosh, writer of ‘When Worlds Change’. This blog sets out the journey of all … Continue reading

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‘Heretics’ wins ‘A Place Like Settle ~ Competition

“We are thrilled to have won the “A Place Like Settle” competition” Deborah Hodges, Heretic’s team member. After three months in the BCre8ive Lab, which ran from October to December 2015, the ‘Heretic’s team emerged the winners of the Settle Stories … Continue reading

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How do we make Content Development work?

In a month where new monies are announced for cross platform production, games funding, and media and content convergence the focus appears to be on the tech part of the creative industries rather than the content, yet it is the … Continue reading

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Dramatic Worlds at Anglia Ruskin

BCre8ve Mentor launches new course module this month. October sees the launch of a new level 3 module within the creative writing faculty at Anglia Ruskin University. Anglia Ruskin, in Cambridge, was started in 1858 by the famous art critic … Continue reading

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Brave New Worlds – A Mentor’s View

This blog on the work of a creative mentor is written by BCre8ive Mentor David Manderson One Strange World So, we’ve got our setting. Let’s say, hmm…a leather-tanning factory in nineteenth century rural France. Our characters: the women who live … Continue reading

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7 Tips on how to become one in a million new creatives

This week’s blog by BCre8ive Co-Founder Phil Parker looks at the skills and work needed by creatives to survive in the coming years. NESTA have produced a report calling for 1m more creative jobs to be created by 2030, while … Continue reading

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