Schedule

Wednesday Workshop: So Now You've Got An App

In order to be successful in today's marketplace, apps need to differentiate and deliver a truly great experience. Join us to explore what this means.

Wednesday Workshop: The Co-Pro Clinic

Session Blog This four-hour session is aimed at companies with developed projects, which are near-ready for presentation to co-production partners, distributors and broadcasters at the various international markets. Experts from distribution, licensing, business affairs & legal will reveal insights into structuring funding for projects, negotiating rights, exploring the various funds in different territories, and maintaining editorial and creative integrity across the varying demands of a range of partners and territories. Practical hands-on advice, the chance to work on your specific project and more expertise gathered in one space than you could ever hope to meet.

Welcome Drinks

Once you've registered, join the CMC welcome drinks in the Crucible Theatre Bar.  

Opening Keynote - Lane Merrifield

CMC 2012 begins with inspiration, innovation and challenge in "Ahead of the Game", our opening address. Conference Chair, Anna Home, introduces the keynote speaker , Lane Merrifield, co-founder of 'Club Penguin' the world’s largest online playground for children, and currently Executive Vice President of Disney Online Studios, responsible for all Disney’s virtual worlds.

Reception

To follow the Opening Keynote - the CMC Reception in the Millennium Gallery.

Wednesday Workshop: Shape It, Pitch It

Shape It, Pitch It is a unique opportunity to work on your idea. Whether it’s a game, book, radio or TV show, we give you the opportunity to work with a set of highly experienced experts to shape your idea and then try pitching it to a panel of guest commissioners from TV, games and publishing.

Wednesday Workshop: Writers' Workout

An active session to help you create stronger shows and structure better scripts.

Wednesday Workshop: From Screen To Shelf - Ready For Retail?

For creators, producers and investors with ambitions for their media project to thrive both off screen and on. The insight acquired during this workshop will provide tools to objectively judge and articulate how your IP could translate successfully offscreen: an increasingly essential component of finance for many media projects.

Meet the Commissioners: Mind Candy

Mind Candy is expanding beyond Moshi Monsters and commissioning and investing in new digital IP. Come along and learn about their plans

Parent Power

Thanks to Twitter and Facebook, parents have more access to broadcasters and content makers than ever before but what have they got to say? And are we listening?

Let's Get Physical

Exploring the possibilities and pitfalls of stimulating action and activity in the real world using media stimuli – in games, apps and on TV.

Enabling Kids, Connecting Communities

Applying social media, digital and gaming technologies to real world problems. Insights from successful projects that empower children and their communities.

Fighting Fantasy - Making Games

Celebrating 30 years of interactive entertainment with Ian Livingston OBE

BAFTA Presents: The Amazing World of Gumball

A “making of” session with the creative team behind ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’, plus a sneak peek at a brand new episode from the upcoming second series.

Meet The Commissioners: Public Service

The Commissioners that count are at the PSBs. And they need you as much as you need them. S4C, BBC and C4’s decision-makers quizzed on their needs and plans.

PJ Playlist

Children’s personalities share their most inspirational or intriguing shows from this year’s Prix Jeunesse Festival

Never Ending Story

How will storytelling have to change to fit in with children's media consumption? Will stories cease to have a beginning, a middle and an end?

Testing, Testing

Getting the most from your own user-testing

Mind The Gap

Sources of funding assistance for producers, including the EU MEDIA fund, soon to be Creative Europe, and EIS investment funds. Plus an update from the UK Animation campaign.

Thank You for the Music

The forgotten income! The ins and outs of potentially lucrative music royalty income in film, TV & other media platforms. It's simple when you know how!

Second Screen

Companion apps alongside TV content have made a big impact in mainstream viewing – are they coming to kids’ TV too? Leading producers explore how 2nd screen Children’s TV can work.

The Audio Picture

When life's full of cartoons, picture books and colourful TV, it‘s easy to see a child’s world as predominantly visual. But what about the incremental value that audio can create for brands?

Research: Kids and Co-viewing. Is it a screen thing?

An up to date, real life portrayal of what ‘co-viewing’ means in the context of kids’ lives today and what the implications are for kids’ media content in the future.

Research: Children, Tablets, and the Future

How Tablets are opening up new opportunities for children’s creativity, motivation to learn, and social skills.

Research: Appyfamilies – Apps for Big and Little Fingers

If you’re thinking about creating an app for kids, then this presentation will give you a great insight into your audience and the challenges before you start!

Research: Tears, Tantrums And Total Involvement In Purchasing Decisions

300 families told us how they decide what TV to watch, which car to buy and much more. We unravel the most valuable decision making process in the UK.

Research: Getting To Grips With Young Children's Learning

Find out how to match the learning potential of interactive products with what’s appropriate for children under five.

Research: Under The Sesame Tree

The challenges of creating a post-conflict public service co-production that appeals to and benefits young children.

Pizza Express Supper

The world-famous CMC Pizza experience. It's crowded, noisy and like the proverbial bear garden... Not to be missed! Pizza express tickets sell out so book early to avoid missing out.

Speed Meetings: Public Service Commissioners

Your chance for a 5 minute advice session with the commissioner of your choice.

The Creative Keynote Interview - Making Monsters

Double Carnegie medal winner Patrick Ness on monsters, teens & the creative process needed for both.

Opening Quiz: Answers on a Postcard!

Back by popular demand, it’s the quiz that kicks off the conference with rib-tickling hilarity. Hosted by CBBC’s Friday Download presenter and actor, Caellach Spellman.

The HUBS Party

All are welcome!

Focus on Malaysia

The lowdown on working with Malaysia including members of the International Exchange delegation.

Working With CBBC

Working with CBBC: An insight into how external suppliers, talent and companies can nurture working relationships with CBBC in-house productions.

CMC Wrap

A final review of the top ten takeaways of CMC 2012

Meet The Commissioners: Commercial

The channel shapers at the UK's major commercial broadcasters share their programming overviews and outline their commissioning priorities.

Meet The Commissioners: Publishing

What are publishers looking for? Discover what is exciting the commissioners from both established and start-up publishers.

Commissioned By The Crowd

Got a great idea but don't know how to fund it? Use crowdfunding to finance a prototype, pilot or even a whole project. Top tips from those who've done it!

OMG£££ - Magnetising and Monetising Apps

Models, money and morals in the Wild West of the new App Stores.

Cotton-Wool Kids

Are we over-protecting our pre-schoolers? There's a growing concern that children are not getting the life experiences they need to develop physically, mentally and emotionally. In a risk-averse world, can we break the imitative behaviour barrier and help reverse the trend that prevents children from playing outside?

3DTV - Fact Or Fiction?

The future of 3D on TV. Will programmes ever be simulcast in 2D and 3D, or will 3D be relegated to only sports, ‘special events’ and niche documentary.

The VOD Inquiry

Is the end game for Kids TV 100% On demand?

Research: TV Presenters – What children Want (rpt)

Results of the 2012 IZI international audience research on what children want in a TV presenter in terms of ethnicity, gender, age and other characteristics.

Research: Kids and Co-viewing. Is it a screen thing? (rpt)

Session Blog We’ve conducted a 360 degree investigation into kids’ co-viewing behaviour. This will show, from a kids perspective, their favourite and most common interactions with TV and social media, what they’d like to be able to do more of, how this changes from younger to older kids and how traditional and modern co-viewing can come together for a powerful viewing experience that truly entertains and benefits children. Using innovative methodology that has allowed us to observe everyday co-viewing behaviour, we have kept in touch over three weeks with 20 young people and their families, spent time with children in…

Research: Children, Tablets, and the Future (rpt)

How Tablets are opening up new opportunities for children’s creativity, motivation to learn, and social skills.

Research: Appyfamilies – Apps for Big and Little Fingers (rpt)

If you’re thinking about creating an app for kids, then this presentation will give you a great insight into your audience and the challenges before you start!

Research: Tears, Tantrums And Total Involvement In Purchasing Decisions (rpt)

300 families told us how they decide what TV to watch, which car to buy and much more. We unravel the most valuable decision making process in the UK.

Research: Under The Sesame Tree (rpt)

The challenges of creating a post-conflict public service co-production that appeals to and benefits young children.

Research: Connected Devices and Children’s Media Consumption (rpt)

Session Blog ACB is an industry neutral longitudinal research lab that studies how people use technology in their own homes, through a combination of video capture, screenshots from mobile devices and interviews with the participants. In the latest phase of research, ACB introduced a variety of connected TVs and mobile devices to a broad sample of families, including many children. The study, which took place in Autumn 2011, recorded behaviour around the main television screen over periods of up to six weeks. Behaviour was analysed through a mixture of ethnography and usage coding, to give a rounded picture of how…

Speed Meetings: Publishing

Your chance for a 5 minute advice session with the commissioner of your choice.