BFI trip

Please see other staff blogs for reminders as to what you did on that day.

This is the programme that was emailed to me beforehand, though it mayhave changed slightly on the day due to the late start:


SESSION 1How to publicise a festival (NFT3)
10:00-10:10 Welcome, intro to the day. Overview of press & marketing
10.10-10.15 Case Study: The LFF: who it's for, focus on this audience
10:15-10:45 Presentation: Knucklehead, Directors & Producers of LFF trailer 09 www.knucklehead.co.uk
10:45-10:55 Presentation: LFF, Marketing Assistant looks at poster image & overview of printSession filmed and photographed by students?

SESSION 2
11:00-11:30: Poster design (Project rooms)Focus on student brief to design poster with support from a Designer
11:30-12:00 LunchPacked lunches to RFH/riverside, or other

SESSION 3
12:00-13:15 Festival screening (NFT3)Short films tbc, but likely to include all/some of these 6. Director Q&A tbc - filmed and photographed by students?
After Tomorrow A psychological suspense in which the sinister owner of a guest house refuses to let James leave. Dir Emma Sullivan UK 2009 15min
What Light (Through Yonder Window Breaks) Morning light enters the room and makes hay while the sun shines. Dir Sarah Wickens UK 2009 13min
Wolves A chance encounter in the city. And wolves. Dir Rafael Sommerhalder UK 2009 6min
Lies Three true stories about lying: the con man, the confused boy and woman whose whole life has been a chain of lies. In Swedish with subtitles. Dir Jonas Odell Sweden 2008 13 min
Kids Might Fly Set in an urban wilderness, the film is an offbeat and touching portrait of young people in East London. Dir Alex Taylor UK 2009 7min
Speechless A family test the pros and cons of leading a screen-based life. Dir Daniel Greaves UK 2009 8min

13:15-13:30 Break BFI Southbank

SESSION 4
13:30-14:15 Interviews Group of 37 split into 7 film crews of 5ish.2 x 15min interview per crew. Interviewees split between marketing and venue management, tbc asap.1.
Mia Farrell - Director of Festival Press (Premier PR)2.
Chris Besseling - LFF Marketing Assistant3.
Miki Tsuganuma - BFI Southbank Designer4.
Emmanuel Tella - BFI Southbank Senior House Manager5.
XXXX - BFI Southbank Customer Services Assistant.
Philip Ilson - Festival Director, London Short Film Festival7.
Susie Evans - Producer & Moira Mcvean - Programmer, London Children's Film Festival