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Television Craft Categories

26 September 07

From costume design to visual effects, from editing to photography, the British Academy Television Craft Awards reward excellence across the board.

Distinction between Factual and Fiction in the drama genre is as follows: Programmes whose drama content accounts for no more than 50% of the total and which very closely and accurately recreate specific historical events and identified individuals, should enter in the Factual categories (Director: Factual, Editing: Factual, Photography: Factual, Sound: Factual). Those which broadly represent historical events should enter in the Fiction categories.

BREAK-THROUGH TALENT

This award is not a true ‘beginner’s award’. It is designed to recognise those whose talents have come to fruition between 1 January and 31 December 2007. An entry might comprise one piece of work, or a number of programmes, each of which must have been transmitted during 2006. This Award will pay tribute to emerging talent displayed throughout any part of the behind-the-camera production process – from development through to delivery and across all genres. For more details see our dedicated Break-Through Talent Page .

Previous winners: Lee Phillips (writer, producer, director of How To Start Your Own Country), Sharon Foster (writer of Shoot The Messenger).

COSTUME DESIGN

The programme should contain a significant amount of original design within its 2007 transmission period.

Previous winners include: Odile Dicks-Mireaux (Great Expectations), Yves Barre (The League of Gentlemen), Barbara Kidd (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby), Shirley Russell (Shackleton), Mike O’Neill (Charles II: The Power and the Passion), James Keast (The Long Firm), Andrea Galer (Bleak House), Amy Roberts (The Virgin Queen).

DIRECTOR: FACTUAL --NEW--

This year's Director category has been split between factual and fiction to reflect the different skill sets involved.

DIRECTOR: FICTION/ENTERTAINMENT --NEW--

EDITING: FACTUAL

Previous winners include: Malcolm Daniel (Inside Story: Child of the Death Camps), Andrew Fegen (Dudley Moore – After the Laughter - Omnibus), Anna Ksiezopolska (The Show Must Go On), Peter Norrey (SAS Embassy Siege), Sean Mackenzie (The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough – Arena), Nick Fenton (The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off), Paul Binns (The Year London Blew Up: 1974), Dave King (Rain In My Heart).

EDITING: FICTION/ENTERTAINMENT

Previous winners include: Tony Cranstoun (The Royle Family), Jon Costelloe (North Square), Nick Arthurs (Othello), Philip Kloss (Daniel Deronda), Mark Day (State of Play), Mark Day (Sex Traffic), Paul Knight (Bleak House), Melanie Oliver (Longford).

INTERACTIVE CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION --NEW--

Awarded to an individual or creative team working in the area of interactive media development. They must have demonstrated excellence in their work during the last year on projects that are interactive, entertaining and focused on video-based moving images. The Award is to recognise the creative individuals behind ground-breaking new media productions, from programmers to writers to designers.

INTERACTIVE INNOVATION – CONTENT --NEW--

Awarded for excellence and innovation within emerging new content offering viewers an interactive experience. It may be a mobile drama or a totally new interactive format for rich media/moving images. It must be a piece of work that truly pushes the boundaries!

INTERACTIVE INNOVATION – SERVICE/PLATFORM

Awarded for recognition of excellence within emerging new processes or technologies aimed at expanding the viewers' interactive experiences. This may be a platform or social networking concept that is focused on moving image content or an alternative delivery mechanism that fundamentally changes and moves forward the interactive possibilities.

MAKE UP & HAIR DESIGN

The programme should contain a significant amount of original design within its 2007 transmission period.

Previous winners include: Lisa Westcott (Wives & Daughters), Joan Hills and Christine Greenwood (Gormenghast), Caroline Noble (The Way We Live Now), Daniel Parker, Frances Hannon and Stephen Rose (The Gathering Storm), Lisa Cavalli-Green (Little Britain), Caroline Noble (Sex Traffic), Vanessa White and Neill Gorton (Help), Anne ‘Nosh’ Oldham (Jane Eyre).

ORIGINAL TELEVISION MUSIC

The programme should contain a significant amount of original music in 2007. Music accompanying opening and closing credits will be considered, in addition to complete scores.

Previous winners include: Ben Bartlett (Walking With Dinosaurs), Geoffrey Burgon (Longitude), George Fenton (The Blue Planet), Geoffrey Burgon (The Forsythe Saga), Nicholas Hooper (The Young Visiters), Jonathan Goldsmith (Sex Traffic), Rob Lane (Elizabeth I), Nicholas Hooper (Prime Suspect: The Final Act).

PHOTOGRAPHY: FACTUAL

The programme should consist mainly of material shot specifically for the programme.

Previous winners include: Chip Houseman and Hugh Miles (Wildlife Special: Tiger), Eigil Bryld (Wisconsin Death Trip: Arena), The Team for The Blue Planet, Nigel Meakin (Sahara With Michael Palin), Peter Greenhalgh (Ancient Egyptians: The Battle of Megiddo), Fred Fabre and John Halliday (Venice: Death), Paul Otter (Tsunami: 7 Hours on Boxing Day), Tim Cragg (Simon Schama’s Power Of Art).

PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING: FICTION/ENTERTAINMENT

Previous winners include: Fred Tammes (Wives & Daughters), Peter Hannan (Longitude), Daf Hobson (Othello), Ivan Strasburg (Bloody Sunday), Ryszard Lenczewski (Charles II: The Power and the Passion), Chris Seager (Sex Traffic), Chris Seager (The Girl In The Café), David Katznelson (Shoot The Messenger).

PRODUCTION DESIGN

The programme should contain a significant amount of original design within its 2007 transmission period.

Previous winners include: Eileen Diss and Chris Lowe (Longitude), Gerry Scott (The Way We Live Now), Luciana Arrighi (The Gathering Storm), John-Paul Kelly (The Lost Prince), Candida Otton (Sex Traffic), Simon Elliot (Bleak House), Bill Laslett (An Audience With Take That… Live!).

SOUND: FACTUAL

Previous winners include: Pritchard and Bob Jackson (Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure), Paul Vigars and Alex Thompson (South Bank Show: Simon Rattle on Judith Weir), Peter Eason, Craig Butter and Cliff Jones (Hell in the Pacific), The Sound Team for The Queen’s Golden Jubilee, Trevor Hotz, Paul Parsons and Graham Haines (Operatunity), Andy Rose, Tony Meering and Ben Baird (The Genius Of Mozart), Ben Baird, Gregor Lyon and Brian Howell (Tsunami: 7 Hours on Boxing Day), Peter Baldock, Tim White and Cliff Jones (9/11: The Twin Towers).

SOUND: FICTION/ENTERTAINMENT

Previous winners include: David Old, Graham Headicare, Maurice Hillier and Danny Longhurst (Warriors), The Sound Team for Anna Karenina, The Sound Team for Clocking Off, The Sound Team for Daniel Deronda, Simon Okin, Stuart Hilliker, Jamie McPhee and Pat Boxshall (State of Play), The Sound Team for Sex Traffic, The Sound Team for Colditz, The Sound Team for Tsunami: The Aftermath.

TITLES

This Award is to recognise originality and excellence in graphic design within the title sequence rather than the overall title sequences themselves.

Previous winners: Mick Connaire (Life In The Undergrowth), Mark Walters, Chris Grubb and Louise Braham (Match Of The Day FIFA World Cup 2006).

VISUAL EFFECTS

This is for post-production visual effects only, and includes CGI.

Previous winners include: The Team for Gormenghast, Blue Source for Banzai, Max Tyrie, Tim Greenwood and Jez Gibson Harris (The Giant Claw - A Walking With Dinosaurs Special), Max Tyrie, Tim Greenwood, Jez Gibson Harris and Jamie Campbell (Sea Monsters – A Walking With Dinosaurs Trilogy), Red Vision (Battlefield Britain – Boudicca), Mike Tucker, Gareth Edwards and Red Vision (Hiroshima), Simon Thomas and Oliver Money (Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather).

WRITER

Entries can be cross-genre from Factual, Drama, Comedy and Entertainment etc.

Previous winners: Peter Kosminsky (The Government Inspector), Peter Morgan (Longford).

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