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TAPS TRIUMPH FOR NEW WRITERS
M ore than 800 hopefuls had It was the latest in a packed Roadshow Writers Workshop and
year for TAPS, the writers’ scheme sponsored by Fujifilm, BBC, Barnes Trust Media, Panasonic Broadcast, Teddington Studios and ITV.
Last summer’s Roadshow Writers Workshop Liverpool led to a special screening of the writers’ work hosted by Bafta North in November.
At the beginning of this year a special TAPS event at Bafta Piccadilly in association with The Writers Guild of Great Britain looked at script editing. March saw the TAPS team heading for Cardiff and a three day
eventually to be whittled down to just 24 lucky applicants for a Skillset-fund- ed Writers Workshop
Showcase run by TAPS (Television Arts Performance Showcase) at Teddington Studios on July 10-11.
“We could not believe the response [to an advertisement in Metro Life],” said Project Director Jill James. “The phones never stopped ringing. We were spoilt for choice.” The weekend double showcase and training workshop proved TAPS’s biggest event to date.
Showcase. Some 570 Welsh writers applied for the 30 workshop places with six gaining a place. The work was excellent and within days two writers had been commissioned.
On to May and there was a well-attended event at Bafta Piccadilly on new writing for television. A month later marked the start of the sixth season of TAPS Studio Showcases in London: Ink by Clive Bradley and
Cat & Dog by Lucy Floyd were well received by the industry audience.
This year, no less than 28 new writers will have their work show- cased and some 100 will benefit from training workshops as TAPS continues to promote new writing talent for the British television industry. ■
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Above left: The TAPS production and technical team with Workshop delegates, directors and artistes; above L to R:
John Robinson of Fuji with Verity Peel (writer Two Nice Girls) and Mark Tuohy (writer The Celtic Soul Brothers);
right L to R: John Robinson (Fuji),
Rikki Beadle-Blair, Piers Godden, Fran Lima, David Squire and Richard Pun (Fuji).
Fuji’s Roadshow for their new Super F-Series of Motion Picture Negative stocks kicked off last month with an evening co-hosted at Mr Young’s by the London branch of the BKSTS.
A wide range of people attended the event ranging from feature cameramen and drama directors to film editors and other post-production personnel in commercials and TV.
Fuji’s Rachel Baker introduced the range of stocks with a short film on each, showing colour saturation, reproduction and exposure latitude. This was commented on within the film by the DP and at the end, the range was discussed with a slide show. Afterwards the floor was open to comment while questions were handled by Fuji’s Bob Quinn. ■
O riginally scheduled for Friday September 24, the Annual Fuji
Scholarship Awards Ceremony held at Bafta on London’s Piccadilly will now take place
on the following Friday, October 1. Any queries please call Michelle Green at Fuji on 0171 586 5900. ■
Photos courtesy of Foyer Film Festival Guides, France.