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animate! tv 2004 : Call for submissions
New ideas
Your project is likely to require frame-by-frame techniques or a re-presentation process such as, for example, spatial or timeline manipulation. We are looking for innovation in content as well as form.
Send us a plan to scratch the world with unexpected tools. Or a playful proposition to surprise and stretch an audience. Above all, we are looking for projects fired by an irresistibly original idea that will challenge the boundaries of animation.
Celluloid, tape and digital technologies are all acceptable, in pure or hybrid form.
You can check out on this website all animate! works made to date.
Eligibility
We want proposals from artists who have worked in film, video & digital media, animators already established in their industry and emergent talent.
Collaborations with other artists, photographers, illustrators, writers, composers and sound designers are encouraged.
Submission is open to residents of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Students in full-time education during the life of the production or graduating this summer are not eligible. We welcome proposals from all sections of the community.
animate! tv does not fund development, co-production with other broadcasters or distribution, and does not commission work made specifically for children, cartoon-character based stories, series, pilots, feature films, educational films, community art projects, multiscreen, web or gallery work.
Defining your proposal
Your main opportunity to explain the work you want to make is in a formal treatment. This is a creative exercise in itself. The selection team will expect you to describe why and how you want to make the film – your task is to convince them that they should support it.
The treatment should be no longer than one side of a single A4 sheet. Try to crystallise within the first three sentences your main idea and the themes you are exploring. Remember that brevity and clarity are virtues and imply a thoughtful focused project!
Your treatment should cover:
- • the subject/idea – what it is and what it is about
- • structure/form – the sequence of events, the shape, rhythm, pace, feel
- • visuals – look, style, treatments
- • sound – music, dialogue, voice-over, effects, atmosphere
- • technique(s) – how the work will be realised and the processes involved
- • audience – how the work will relate to and communicate with its audience
We also ask you to send us a storyboard and script, if appropriate, a production schedule, an estimated budget total, a showreel of previous relevant work and a completed Proposal Form.
Plus visual material appropriate to this project – your submission is likely to be handicapped if it does not include visual reference.
Selection
We will acknowledge your submission by email. All proposals will be treated in confidence.
Your submission will be assessed for:
- • the creativity and originality of the proposal
- • the artistic and technical quality of the examples of previous work submitted
- • the likelihood that the project can be realised within your estimated schedule and budget
- • suitability for a television audience
Shortlisting will be by the animate! tv selection team. Applicants who are shortlisted will be contacted and required to supply a detailed production budget before they can be considered further.
The final selection team will include independent specialists with a strong background in experimental film practice. The team's decisions are final. We are sorry that we cannot enter into any communication about unsuccessful proposals.
The 2004 slate of funded projects will be announced by the end of June 2004.
Documents
- 2004: animatetv budget guide 2004 (PDF, 35,587 bytes)
- 2004: animatetv budget guide 2004 (RTF, 7,801 bytes)
- 2004: animatetv proposal pack 2004 (PDF, 93,439 bytes)
- 2004: animatetv proposal pack 2004 (RTF, 25,065 bytes)