Why choose a LIVE! event?
Inspire their future career at our Media LIVE! conference on Monday 2nd March 2020. Bring media studies to life for your students and fire their future career ambitions by showing them the many different paths a career in media could take at our Media LIVE! conference - all whilst enjoying the magic of Disneyland® Paris!
Leading industry experts will deliver presentations to give a unique insight into the media business, offering real life experiences to ignite your students’ aspirations whilst perfectly complementing the curriculum. Students can also put their own questions to the experts during a Q&A session.
Meeting your learning objectives - Media LIVE! is designed to meet course aims by encouraging and developing an enthusiasm for studying Media Studies. Learn more about our full range of LIVE! events here.
Our sample itinerary provides you with an idea of the visits you can cover during your trip. We can tailor-make an itinerary to support your specific learning outcomes.
Attend the Media LIVE! Conference Time in Disneyland® Paris Parks Free time in Disney Village.
Free time in Disney Village.
Expert speaker presentations - a chance to gain an understanding of the dynamic and changing relationships between media forms, products, media industries and audiences and the global nature of the media.
Q&A session - interactive question and answer sessions offering invaluable career insight and advice.
Creative media competition - students have the opportunity to showcase their talent by taking part in our creative media production competition!
Team park challenges - encourage students to take a step back and critically appraise the resort as part of a synergised media enterprise - see in action how Disney use synergy to promote their brand, loyalty and merchandise.
As Senior Vice President, Viacom International Media Networks, Cally Beaton is responsible for international programme and format distribution for MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, CMT, TV Land and Paramount, and is charged with pursuing co-production financing opportunities across various genres including kids, music, factual and young people. She manages a multi-million dollar budget and holds a seat on the VIMN Programming Council where her expertise is exploited in assessing all potential programming from a channel and distribution perspective. In addition, regional sales team heads based in Asia Pacific, Europe, Japan and Latin America report directly to her. Cally’s responsibilities include SVOD/OTT and non-linear exploitation, as well as linear broadcast and production deals.
Cally first joined MTV Networks International in 1996, leaving in 2000 to take up the position of Director of International and New Business at Carlton Television’s format production company, Action Time, based in the UK. She soon became Managing Director of Action Time, and the youngest ever member of the Carlton Television Production Board.
In 2004 she founded Road Trip Media, on the back of the UK government’s 2003 Communications Act which supported content creators in retaining/controlling more of the rights associated with their shows. During this time, she worked with TV producers, distributors, broadcasters and other media organisations providing strategic and commercial advice to independent TV producers and rights owners, gave input into programme development and consulted on a range of issues including formats, event design and delivery, start-ups, developing communication and improving commercial impact.
As a fully qualified and accredited coach and mentor, Cally continues to run a successful executive coaching and training practice alongside her Viacom role. With a Masters in Neuro Linguistic Programming, she is expert in communication in all its many forms and has produced and hosted many prestigious domestic and international events.
She is a sought-after public speaker and panellist and a highly experienced presenter and trainer; not to mention a rising star of the stand-up comedy circuit, in the UK, US and Netherlands.
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.
Lucy Brett joined the BBFC as an Examiner in 2004, became Education Officer in 2010 and is now the Head of Education. She coordinates the BBFC education and outreach programme including education visits, creates online resources and runs a series of in house seminars.
Prior to joining the BBFC, Lucy was a journalist for trade and consumer home entertainment magazines and a media studies teacher.
Steve Mould is a Science Presenter with a reputation for providing expert knowledge and for packaging complicated scientific ideas in an accessible way.
Formerly the Blue Peter resident Science expert, he is best recognised as a regular contributor on The One Show. Steve has a Physics MA from Oxford University and works frequently with schools, giving talks and demonstrations on Physics, Maths, Chemistry and Psychology. He is adept at presenting science using comedy, music and interactive experiments and will make an excellent chair at our Live! event.
Andrew Davis is one of the UK’s most prolific social media speakers, trainers and consultants. He cut his teeth at the frontier of the social media explosion by moderating the chatrooms for some of the biggest sensations of the millennium, such as Pop Idol, PlayStation and Friends Reunited. Andrew went on to be part of the founding team for the digital radio station BBC Radio 1Xtra, from here he cemented his place in the social media revolution by launching the UK marketing and content division for MySpace. Staying with MySpace as they gained and lost over 200 million profiles, Andrew knows what works and what doesn’t in the super-fast world of digital communications.
With his experience in tow, he reached a turning point when he launched the Social Media Fundamentals Program, which was connected to GCSE English Course. This received international acclaim, improving creativity and literacy in borderline C/D students. It began Andrew’s career as a consultant and trainer. This also created the opportunity for being the head digital consultant for the new Edexcel GCSE English subject: GCSE Digital Communication. Going on to train some of the UK’s biggest brands in their social media strategy, Andrew has honed key skills that promote innovation, growth and convert social media users into business customers.
Andrew followed this up in 2008 by becoming the only person listed in both the prestigious Media Week Top ‘30 under 30’ rundown of the most talented individuals in the UK and Broadcast magazine’s ‘Hot Shots’ list of media insiders tipped for future success. Programmes For four years he sat on the Ofcom Advisory Committee, leaving this position in 2016. He now works as a freelance trainer delivering tailor made consultancy to big and small businesses on social media, marketing and building a brand.
A key part of the event day is the judging of the media competition. We provide the brief for your students to showcase their talent. Submit a piece of work prior to the event which will be shown at the conference and judged by our panel of speakers. As well as the kudos of being awarded the winner by industry professionals the winning entry will win a prize for their school!
In order to help you prepare for the Media LIVE! Event, you will receive supplementary information about how each speaker will link to the curriculum as well as a list of desired outcomes. This can be used to follow up with your students when you return.
It is a real pleasure to participate in Media LIVE!, especially alongside such an interesting range of industry speakers. The biggest plaudits should always go to the student attendees though, and the Media Live! audiences are as engaged, challenging, passionate, talented and articulate an audience of young people as you could hope to meet!
We offer flights from a variety of departure airports and we’ll work with you to plan your route at the best value possible.
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