Media Diversity UK is taking on a new and exciting challenge. Working with a number of large media organisations we will be examining the lack of roles for Black and visibly ethnic minority actors in the UK and revealing our findings at a major event in central London. We are recruiting 30 volunteers to collect data from the five main terrestrial channels. BB1. BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5 in the first week of September. Sunday 1st to Sunday 8th Sept inclusive. We’ll be researching the % of speaking roles for BME actors. The % of speaking roles for white actors. Major roles (Equity’s definition) and Minor roles (Equity’s definition) in three areas; Soaps, Sitcoms and Drama during Primetime hours 7pm – 11pm (British made shows) Volunteers must be prepared to do two sessions of 4 hours, be reliable, and attend a two hour training session (or Skype) in central London in the last week of August. Date TBC (We can offer travel cost reimbursement up to an agreed amount) Please email mediadiversityUK@gmail with your interest in becoming involved and any experience you have in data collection. Deadline Friday 23rd August
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:44:57 +0000
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