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Thank you for visiting our site. Charles Garland Productions is a holding company for various projects across the media, either written, composed, created, devised, adapted, produced or directed by Charles Garland. Please select the genre that interests you from the choice on the left of your screen, and SEE BELOW for important updates and information. or direct at charles@charlesgarlandproductions.biz For enquiries about the availability of Charles Garland as an after dinner / lunch speaker, please contact: Elizabeth at EASY SPEAK LECTURE AGENCY Tel: 01323 507337 NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS MUSICALS - " ANOTHER WAY " A 50 minute musical for Primary / First Schools. Written to order for Norfolk Education Department. Directed by JIM RYMER, who was responsible for commissioning and directing 'OVER HERE!', this show was produced for a few try-out performances in '09, to check that it fits with education department requirements on one hand, and whether the children like the songs on the other! It was favourably received by all who saw it which was encouraging. Further details will be posted here in due course. Visit the Production Company's site : www.beyondimageproductions.com MUSICALS - OVER THERE! "OVER THERE!" with a new book, delivering a dramatically enhanced story and many new songs should be finished in Autumn 2010. Two directors are already in discussion for a new production of this show in July 2011 if it's finished and approved in time, which promises to be the biggest thing you've ever seen ... Watch this space for further details ! TELEVISION - NEW PROJECTS A NEW SCRIPTED COMEDY CONCEPT is currently under consideration by a leading independent production company. If they like it, option it, and are successful in producing it, it will be sensational, reflecting the life and times of all of us in the twenty-tens ! It will, however, take a production company with a talent for spotting the "next big thing" and the confidence to follow through on this project. After almost 30 years working in TV, I think I'm qualified to say whether it will work or not - and this one, most definitely, will. THEATRE - "ON THE SAME SIDE" (2 act play) "On The Same Side" For further details, contact Jean Diamond at Diamond Management, agents@diman.co.uk or contact me via the 'contact' link on this site. The "Stage" link to the left of this window has more about the play. "SIXTEEN WHEELS" A new one-act, four hander play. ready for launch soon. More details, as usual, here first! Any comments on this web-site, or its contents, will be read with great interest - please let me know what you think. Use the "contact" section on the left hand side of the screen for the correct e-mail address. Thanks for dropping in, and hope you are warming up nicely now! Had a Summer cold yet? Charles Garland Summer 2010 CHECK OUT ... www.sitcomscript.com is a script consultancy for aspiring writers of situation comedy. There are plenty of excellent people available to assess and evaluate screenplays, but very few specialising in sit-com. Now there's one more. If you know of anyone who is writing or has written a script and doesn't know where to go for professional help, pass on the web address please! VISITING LECTURER : I am registered with agency "Protocol National" and available for Universities and FE Colleges with two specific lectures. 1. "Situation Comedy", and how it is made - from first ideas through to the script development, writing, re-writing, commissioning, planning, casting, pre-production, filming, studio, post production, marketing and publicity and lobbying for a second (and subsequent) series commission. After 12 years on the staff of the BBC, I can give a first hand account of how programmes are made, and how to get a job working for a broadcaster / production company. This is principally for media students / TV production courses, but would also be of interest to U3A groups, and others. (Check to see if Easy Speak Lecture Agency is a more suitable route to booking me. Details above.) 2. "Writing a Script" - this is particularly useful for universities and colleges where a television production course, or similar, is run by superb, technically wizard lecturers who are not writers! Allow me take over that particular lecture on your behalf. Evaluating writers is not easy - but with years of practice it gets easier! (I use recent films / TV programmes on dvd to demonstrate my points, and draw on my MA in script writing from the UEA and my work as a script consultant.) |
