The Television Workshop
And the winner is…
… any young person who’s been trained by The Television Workshop - an established drama group and casting agency. Former students have gone on to win; Oscar nominations, Golden Globes, Empire Awards and BAFTAs. Many develop careers in film, tv, stage and radio as actors, writers, directors, editors and production crew.
Those who choose a different path still carry a little of the Workshop ethos with them. Increased confidence, teamwork experience with a diverse group, a willingness to learn, not afraid to experiment and a hardworking mind set. All valuable experience in any walk of life.
The Television Workshop was started by Central TV in 1983 because they found it difficult to recruit child actors with regional accents (with all the casting agencies being predominantly Southern based).
Now, as a charity, based in Nottingham and Manchester - Workshop has been able to keep fees affordable. Kids don’t need any experience of acting to apply. They just need to have passion, commitment, and a willingness to learn.
It’s not glossy, prima donna stage school for the overly confident - far from it. These kids are from diverse and ordinary backgrounds. Workshop finds them as diamonds in the rough, nurtures their innate talent and gives them the chance to shine.
Workshop kids who went on to shine include; Samantha Morton (Minority Report), Felicity Jones (Rogue One), Lauren Socha (Misfits), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken), Chanel Cresswell (This is England), Jude Riordan (Coronation Street), Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones), Michael Socha (Papillon), Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones), Vicky McClure (Line of Duty), Jorden Myrie (Stephen), Anjili Mohindra (Munich) and Aisling Loftus (Mr Selfridge).
So if anyone deserves a website to showcase what they do, it’s The Television Workshop.
Together with Worksop, we developed the site plan & content and honed the design brief. If you rush this part, or don’t ask the right questions, then the rest of the process is flawed.
As the project progressed we built a working draft site (hidden from public view & password protected). This was circulated to the members of The Television Workshop board and other interested parties (spread around the UK) to comment on.
The aim was to create a structured website that enabled the user to access the majority of the information from the home page by scrolling down through individual panels.
In order to achieve this, text was minimised as far as possible - as Oscar Wild once said…”If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”.
I addition, our images were used mostly at large scale - retaining plenty of space around the elements.
We’ve used colour to add impact and define areas within the site. The grey was taken from the current Television Workshop logo and acts as the anchor to a palette of five vibrant shades. Each of these shades was selected to have maximum on screen impact with their high degree of luminosity. These colours form the cornerstone of The Television Workshop brand going forward.
A showreel was created featuring Workshop students which showcases the diversity of acting talent.
To keep the uncluttered appearance of the site, two fonts were chosen; a traditional sans-serif for the bulk of the text and a bold compressed font inspired by, but not a copy of, The Television Workshop logo font. Both fonts used were designed to work across a multiple devices, screen formats and sizes (mobile, tablet & desktop).
And that, as they say, is a wrap.
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