About Me

Unscripted development AP, writer and producer. I have just completed my first Development AP contract with film and TV company Freak Productions, developing pitches in factual entertainment, documentary and formats for BBC channels, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. I am also a filmmaker for BBC The Social, BBC Scotland’s digital new talent plat... Read More

Unscripted development AP, writer and producer. I have just completed my first Development AP contract with film and TV company Freak Productions, developing pitches in factual entertainment, documentary and formats for BBC channels, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky.
I am also a filmmaker for BBC The Social, BBC Scotland’s digital new talent platform.
Masters (with distinction) in Factual TV development from the University of Stirling, 2021.
10+ years’ experience in print and broadcast journalism, including staff roles with The Sunday Times, L!ve TV (cable TV news), The Daily Mail and The Scotsman.
Creative ideas person with a passion for factual TV. As a video producer, I have produced 100+ short films and animations, working with crews from 2 to 20.

SKILLS
• Development – generating ideas, proposal writing & design (PowerPoint, Keynote), sizzle filming & editing, pitching.
• Research – great eye for a story; forensic fact-checking; securing access; finding and casting contributors & talent; researching and clearing music and archive e.g. ITN, BFI, Pond5, Getty; preparing and conducting interviews; putting contributors at ease.
• Writing – skilled writer of titles, top lines, synopses, scripts (live action & animation), tenders.
• Production – budgets, scheduling, booking kit, crew, casting talent and contributors, call sheets, releases, RAs, Covid safety.
• Camera & Editing – I have filmed with the C300 & FS5. I edit with Premiere Pro & Final Cut. Basic Avid training.
• Directing – crews, actors, contributors; dramatised, presenter-led and actuality.

DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
2022 - Development AP contract with Freak Productions; filmmaker for BBC The Social.
2021 - During my Masters in Factual TV development, three indies in Manchester and Scotland helped me develop my own ideas, proposals and sizzles for potential factual TV series for Channel 4, BBC Two and BBC Scotland. These included a celebrity travelogue, access doc, archive format, cookery format and property format. Working with development producers, I also created proposals and sizzles for a potential daytime format and, in specialist factual, two potential history and popular science series. Key achievements include:

• Pitching to BBC Scotland commissioners Steve Allen (popular factual & formats) & Jack Kibble-White (multiplatform).

• Securing access in principle from the MoD across all 3 armed forces for a potential documentary series.

• Being mentored by a BAFTA-winning development producer to develop a potential format for Channel 4.

• Researching archives including Post Office records and British Newspaper Archive.

• Sourcing almost 100 potential contributors on Facebook and filming some of them for a sizzle.

• Developing & directing a short film on an exiled Iranian musician. Filmed with crew of 3 over 7 shoot days. Pitched to a BBC documentary commissioner.

Own car. Available immediately. I am based in Scotland but work regularly in London and remotely. www.vickymasterson.com Mobile 07733 301715 Email Vicky@remadeTV.com. Read Less