ScreenWorks, funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen and delivered by Into Film, is an exciting scheme to help young people in Northern Ireland aged 14-19 learn more about careers in the screen industries through hands-on work experience opportunities.
Placements with ScreenWorks offer young people unparalleled access to industry professionals on 3-5 day work placement across all five screen sectors - Film, Television, Animation, Gaming and Visual Effects.
Programmes take place throughout the academic year, and will include:
- Costume Design
- Production Design
- Storyboarding & Concept Art
- Prosthetics
- Make-Up
- Visual and special effects
- Production Accountancy
- Animation
- Game Design
- Camera Operating
- and much more!
Young people can apply to their preferred placement by completing an application form and emailing it to screenworks@intofilm.org. Participants are encouraged to apply directly, rather than through a teacher or parent.
PLEASE NOTE: All applicants will be notified of the status of their application. For any queries, please contact the ScreenWorks Delivery Coordinator on 07936 361786. Note: Northern Ireland Screen can not advise on the status of applications.
All ScreenWorks programmes are free, and a travel bursary is available to assist young people in travelling from different cities and towns.
ScreenWorks - Prosthetics
with Clare Ramsey
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Prosthetics (with Clare Ramsey)
- Date: 27 - 29 September
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to casualty effects (bruising, wounds, burns)
- How to make your own prosthetic gelatine and blood
- Moulding and casting
- Creating characters
- The importance of a portfolio
ScreenWorks - Music Composition
with Score Draw Music
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Music Composition (with Score Draw Music)
- Date: 3 - 7 October
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- An introduction into composing for media
- An introduction to sound design for media
- Experience creating a new bespoke musiccue for a project in film and a project in animation
- Experience creating and editing sounddesign for a piece of animation
- An introduction to editing audio files
ScreenWorks - Editing
with Brian Philip Davis
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks:Editing (with Brian Philip Davis)
- Date: 11 - 13 October
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme will include
- What is an editor?
- Organizing of film footage
- Working with scripts
- Sound & music
- Grading and preparing for exhibition
ScreenWorks - Story Development
with Amanda Verlaque
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Story Development (with Amanda Verlaque)
- Date: 18 - 21 October
- Location: Newry
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Generating story ideas
- Choosing the style/format
- 3 Act and 5 Act structures
- Mapping out the idea
ScreenWorks - Location Management
with Adam Wilkinson
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Location Management (with Adam Wilkinson)
- Date: 24 - 26 October
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme will include:
- Scouting for locations
- Production planning
- Health & Safety
- Logistics of filming
- Movement orders
ScreenWorks - Hair, Wigs & Make-Up
with Patricia Strong
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Hair, Wigs & Make-Up (with Patricia Strong Academy)
- Date: 1 - 4 November
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Etiquette & code of conduct on set andlocation
- Health and safety
- Chain of command
- Practical demonstrations of film hair, wigs& make-up
- How to present a CV to a production company
ScreenWorks - Prosthetics
with Clare Ramsey
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Prosthetics (with Clare Ramsey)
- Date: 8 - 10 November
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to casualty effects (bruising, wounds, burns)
- How to make your own prosthetic gelatine and blood
- Moulding and casting
- Creating characters
- The importance of a portfolio
ScreenWorks - Visual Effects for Film & TV
with Enter Yes
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Visual Effects for Film & TV (with Enter Yes)
- Date: 14 - 18 November
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to software
- Explaining the production workflow
- Creating work to a brief
- Working on VFX shots
ScreenWorks - Art for Games & Film
with Outsider Games
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Art for Games & Film (with Outsider Games)
- Date: 22 - 24 November
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Scene and character concept
- Storyboarding
- Asset production and technical artistry
- Animation
- Bringing the scene together
ScreenWorks - Creating Online Content
with Callum Janes from WatchMojo
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Creating Online Content (with Callum Janes from WatchMojo)
- Date: 29 November - 1 December
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Becoming a Content Creator / Building Your Influence
- In-Depth Content Research, Idea Generation, and Breakdowns
- Hands-On Video / Content Production
- Video Editing for Online Platforms (TikTok, Youtube, Facebook, etc.)
- Monetizing Your New Content Skills / Turning Views into Profit
ScreenWorks - Prop Costume
with Enda Kenny
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Prop Costume (with Enda Kenny)
- Date: 5 - 8 December
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Creating a wearable piece of prop costume
- Practice fabrication techniques and paint methods
- Measure, cut and mould fabrics
- Age and breakdown costume to create a lived-in effect
ScreenWorks - Game Design
with Kippie
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Game Design (with Kippie)
- Date: 5 - 7 December
- Location: Derry / Londonderry
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to GameMaker by Yoyo games
- Learn how to design, make graphics for and create your own 2D game
- Hands on learning
- No pressure environment
ScreenWorks - The Writer's Room
with Stuart Drennan
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: The Writer's Room with (with Stuart Drennan)
- Date: 24 - 26 January
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Learning how tocreate compelling concepts for film and television
- Buildingproactive and 3D heroes and villains
- Working as aWriter's Room to plot out a television series together
- Writing scenes(dialogue, subtext, action)
ScreenWorks - Faking Reality: An introduction to 3D content creation in films, games and animation
with Aura Digital
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: 3D Content Creation with (with Aura Digital)
- Date: 31 January - 2 February
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to 3D modelling
- Introduction to 3D animation
- Real-time rendering and optimisation
- ICVFX (In Camera Visual Effects) for Virtual Production and its application and use cases, in association with the Ulster Screen Academy at Ulster University.
ScreenWorks - Sound Design
with Chloe Dalzell
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Sound Design (with Chloe Dalzell)
- Date: 14 - 16 February
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to post production sound for TV and Film
- What is critical listening?
- Creating and editing sound effects and foley
- Exploring sound in movies
- Recording your own sound effects
ScreenWorks - Narrative for Games
with HoloMoon Games
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Narrative for Games with (with HoloMoon Games)
- Date: 22 - 24 February
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Narrative formats and structures in games
- Different types of writing present in games (Barks, Dialogue, World Building, Tutorials)
- Games writing as a collaboration
- The various tools and software used for creating and managing game narratives
- The creation of a short interactive fiction piece
ScreenWorks - Film Journalism
with Helen O'Hara
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Film Journalism (with Helen O'Hara from Empire Magazine)
- Date: 27th February - 1 March
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Practice in writing film news how to turn simple facts into a coherent story
- Discussion of interviewing and how to edit interviews
- Practice of review writing, with feedback and revisions
- Creating a news article about the NI film industry, with a view to being published!
Helen O'Hara is a freelance film journalist, Editor-at-Large of Empiremagazine and author of Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall & Rise Of Women InFilm. O'Hara trained as a lawyer before becoming a film journalist with Empirein 2003. Since going freelance in 2014 O'Hara has written for publicationsincluding The Guardian, Grazia and The Independent; worked extensively on TVand radio; and written three books. She is also co-host of the Empire podcast,the award-winning weekly film podcast covering all Hollywood news and nonsense,and a frequent guest on other podcasts. Originally from Portstewart, O'Haraideally likes to spend her time visiting sets, interviewing filmmakers andstars and watching movies.
ScreenWorks - Producing
with Margaret McGoldrick
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Producing (with Margaret McGoldrick)
- Date: 14th - 16th March
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- What is a producer? Breaking down the various roles
- Hierarchy of production. How does a producer work with different parts of a production?
- Breaking down a script for creating a budget
- Pitching and feedback
Margaret McGoldrick is anIrish filmmaker from Northern Ireland. In 2020, she was selected for theNetflix sponsored Women In Film Mentorship under the mentorship ofproducer Mark Huffam (‘House of Gucci', ‘Game of Thrones'). Margaret was partof the 2019 Bird's Eye Filmonomics cohort led byMia Bays and in 2022, mentored by director Jon East (‘Cursed', ‘Killing Eve', ‘Downton Abbey') through the production of BBC's second season of ‘Bloodlands'.Previously Margaret has produced a bank of award-winning NI Screen/BFI Networkshorts including 'Time And Again', 'TheInvention', ‘Childer' and 'Safe Haven' and directed severalmore including ‘Copy That' and ‘Finding Shakespeare' wherewere released via ALTER and Omeleto. Margaret also produced crimemini-series ‘Farr' for Irish broadcaster RTE which took several awards at TheAcademy of Web Television and SeriesFest, and slasher indie ‘BraxtonButcher'. Most recently, Margaret was selected as a recipient of the 2022 LordDavid Puttnam Scholarship. She is currently in production as leadproducer/co-director on feature-doc ‘Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra HillStory' and New Talent Focus feature ‘Nothing Lasts Forever'.
ScreenWorks - Animation for Film
with Kris Kelly
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Animation for Film (with Kris Kelly)
- Date: 21 - 24 March
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to software
- Storytelling for animation
- Explaining the production workflow
- Creating work to a brief
ScreenWorks - The Camera Department
with Acorn Film & TV
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: The Camera Department (with Acorn FIlm & TV)
- Date: 29th - 31st March
- Location: Belfast
- Ages: 18-19 (or 18 by 30th June 2023)
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Exploring the various roles that exist in the camera department, including D.I.T. and Video Playback
- Set etiquette and health and safety
- How to use the camera (including shutter speed, codecs and white balance)
- How to prepare and care for a camera kit
- Audio and microphones
- Lighting basics
ScreenWorks - The Assistant Director
with Paul George
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: The Assistant Director (with Paul George)
- Date: 4th - 6th April
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- What is an Assistant Director? What are the various types of AD?
- Set etiquette
- The working day of an AD
- Breakdown ascript
- Scheduling
ScreenWorks - Production Accountancy
with Seamus Devine
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Production Accountancy (with Seamus Devine)
- Date: 25th - 27th April
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- The importance of Accounting within the TV & film industry
- The role of the accounting department
- Structure of the accounting department
- Skillset required to become a Production Accountant
- Career opportunities that the creative industries will offer
- Opportunity to apply for trainee positions within the accounts department of a large-scale production
ScreenWorks - Story Development
with Amanda Verlaque
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Story Development (with Amanda Verlaque)
- Date: 6 - 9 June
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Generating story ideas
- Choosing the style/format
- 3 Act and 5 Act structures
- Mapping out the idea
ScreenWorks - The Grip Department
with Donavan Gallagher
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: The Grip Department (with Donavan Gallagher)
- Date: 13th - 15th June
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- What is a grip?
- A grip's role in planning and executing a shot.
- Camera movement using equipment such as dollies and cranes.
- Situational camera rigging.
- Camera and operator safety.
Donavan started as a grip trainee in 2014, on the fifth season of Game of Thrones. He continued to work on the rest of that show, working his way up to being the 'B camera' dolly grip by the final season. Since then, he's had the opportunity to work on various television and film projects; including Line of Duty, Succession, The Northman and the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film as the ‘A camera' dolly grip. Most recently he completed the second series of BBC's World on Fire as key grip.
ScreenWorks - VFX and Motion Graphics
with Doublejump Studios
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: VFX and Motion Graphics (with DoubleJump Studios)
- Date: 27th - 29th June
- Location: Derry / Londonderry
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to software
- Creating work to a brief
- Producing a short VFX-based animation
ScreenWorks - Prop Costume
with Enda Kenny
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Prop Costume (with Enda Kenny)
- Date: 26 - 30 June
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Creating a wearable piece of prop costume
- Practice fabrication techniques and paint methods
- Measure, cut and mould fabrics
- Age and breakdown costume to create a lived-in effect
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