ScreenWorks, funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen and delivered by Into Film, is an exciting scheme to help young people in Northern Ireland aged 14-19 learn more about careers in the screen industries through hands-on work experience opportunities.
Placements with ScreenWorks offer young people unparalleled access to industry professionals on 3-5 day work placement across all five screen sectors - Film, Television, Animation, Gaming and Visual Effects.
Programmes take place throughout the academic year, and will include:
- Costume Design
- Production Design
- Storyboarding & Concept Art
- Prosthetics
- Make-Up
- Visual and special effects
- Production Accountancy
- Animation
- Game Design
- Camera Operating
- and much more!
Young people can apply to their preferred placement by completing an application form below. Participants are encouraged to apply directly, rather than through a teacher or parent.
PLEASE NOTE: ScreenWorks programmes take place during the school day. Please check with your school/college that you can attend before applying.
To check on the status of your application, or to request further information about a programme, please email screenworks@intofilm.org or phone 07936 361786.
All ScreenWorks programmes are free, and a travel bursary is available to reimburse young people for all public transport costs.
ScreenWorks: Producing
with Margaret McGoldrick
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Producing (with Margaret McGoldrick)
- Date: 17-19 October 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- What is a producer? Breaking down the various roles
- Hierarchy of production. How does a producer work with different parts of a production?
- Breaking down a script for creating a budget
- Pitching and feedback
ScreenWorks: Story Development
with Amanda Verlaque
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Story Development (with Amanda Verlaque)
- Date: 17-19 October 2023
- Location: Newry
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Generating story ideas
- Choosing the style/format
- 3 Act and 5 Act structures
- Mapping out the idea
ScreenWorks: Location Management
with Adam Wilkinson
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Location Management (with Adam Wilkinson)
- Date: 24 - 26 October 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme will include:
- Scouting for locations
- Production planning
- Health & Safety
- Logistics of filming
- Movement orders
ScreenWorks: The Writer's Room
with Stuart Drennan
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: The Writer's Room (with Stuart Drennan)
- Date: 30 October - 2 November 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Learning how to create compelling concepts for film and television
- Building proactive and 3D heroes and villains
- Working as a Writer's Room to plot out a television series together
- Writing scenes(dialogue, subtext, action)
ScreenWorks: Hair, Wigs & Make-Up
with Patricia Strong
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Hair, Wigs & Make-Up (with Patricia Strong Academy)
- Date: 31 October - 3 November 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Etiquette & code of conduct on set and location
- Health and safety
- Chain of command
- Practical demonstrations of film hair, wigs& make-up
- How to present a CV to a production company
ScreenWorks: Narrative for Games
with HoloMoon Games
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Narrative for Games with (with HoloMoon Games)
- Date: 7 - 9 November 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Narrative formats and structures in games
- Different types of writing present in games (Barks, Dialogue, World Building, Tutorials)
- Games writing as a collaboration
- The various tools and software used for creating and managing game narratives
- The creation of a short interactive fiction piece
ScreenWorks: Music Composition
with Score Draw Music
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Music Composition (with Score Draw Music)
- Date: 21 - 23 November 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- An introduction into composing for media
- An introduction to sound design for media
- Experience creating a new bespoke musiccue for a project in film and a project in animation
- Experience creating and editing sounddesign for a piece of animation
- An introduction to editing audio files
ScreenWorks: Film Journalism
with Helen O'Hara
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Film Journalism (with Helen O'Hara from Empire Magazine)
- Date: 13 - 15 November 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes:
- Practice in writing film news how to turn simple facts into a coherent story
- Discussion of interviewing and how to edit interviews
- Practice of review writing, with feedback and revisions
- Creating a news article about the NI film industry, with a view to being published!
ScreenWorks: Creating Online Content
with Callum Janes from Watch Mojo
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Creating Online Content (with Callum Janes from WatchMojo)
- Date: 28 -30 November 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Becoming a Content Creator / Building Your Influence
- In-Depth Content Research, Idea Generation, and Breakdowns
- Hands-On Video / Content Production
- Video Editing for Online Platforms (TikTok, Youtube, Facebook, etc.)
- Monetizing Your New Content Skills / Turning Views into Profit
ScreenWorks: Faking Reality - An Introduction to 3D Content Creation in Film, Games and Animation
with Aura Digital
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: 3D Content Creation with (with Aura Digital)
- Date: 5 - 7 December 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to 3D modelling
- Introduction to 3D animation
- Real-time rendering and optimisation
- ICVFX (In Camera Visual Effects) for Virtual Production and its application and use cases, in association with the Ulster Screen Academy at Ulster University.
ScreenWorks: Production Management
with Stacey Quigley
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Production Management with Stacey Quigley
- Date: 12 -13 December 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- What is a production Manager? LP? Their role within the Office
- Setting up the office/ onboarding crew
- Insight into prep/shoot/wrap
- Paperwork reporting/legal/insurance/H&S
- Contract templates, how to complete cast/crew/stunt contracts
ScreenWorks: Prop Costume
with Enda Kenny
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Prop Costume (with Enda Kenny)
- Date: 12 - 15 December 2023
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Creating a wearable piece of prop costume
- Practice fabrication techniques and paint methods
- Measure, cut and mould fabrics
- Age and breakdown costume to create a lived-in effect
ScreenWorks: Editing
with Brian Philip Davis
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Editing (with Brian Philip Davis)
- Date: 16 - 18 January 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme will include:
- What is an editor?
- Organizing of film footage
- Working with scripts
- Sound & music
- Grading and preparing for exhibition
ScreenWorks: Prosthetics
with Clare Ramsey
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Prosthetics (with Clare Ramsey)
- Date: 23 - 25 January 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to casualty effects (bruising, wounds, burns)
- How to make your own prosthetic gelatine and blood
- Moulding and casting
- Creating characters
- The importance of a portfolio
ScreenWorks: Visual Effects for Film and TV
with Enter Yes
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Visual Effects for Film & TV (with Enter Yes)
- Date: 30th January - 2nd February 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to software
- Explaining the production workflow
- Creating work to a brief
- Working on VFX shots
- The importance of a portfolio
ScreenWorks: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
with filmmaker Kris Kelly
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (with filmmaker Kris Kelly)
- Date: 20 - 22 February 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Exploring the positives and negatives of artificial intelligence
- How AI can be used across the screen industries
- What is machine learning?
- How can AI be used to complement existing job roles
ScreenWorks: Programming for Games
with HoloMoon Games
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Programming for Games with (with HoloMoon Games)
- Date: 27 - 29 February 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Game Development basics
- Programming fundamentals
- Game mechanics
- Introduction to game engines
- Problem solving in programming
ScreenWorks: Art for Games
with Outsider Games
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Art for Games with (with Outsider Games)
- Date: 5 -7 March 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Scene and character concept
- Storyboarding
- Asset production and technical artistry
- Animation
- Bringing the scene together
ScreenWorks: Storyboarding
with Adam Pescott
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Storyboarding (with Adam Pescott)
- Date: 12 - 14 March 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Storyboarding techniques
- The workflow of the storyboard artist
- Analysing scripts and translating one into a storyboard
- Introduction to relevant software
- Creating storyboards to a brief
ScreenWorks: Sound Design
with Chloe Dalzell
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Sound Design (with Chloe Dalzell)
- Date: 19 - 21 March 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Introduction to post production sound for TV and Film
- What is critical listening?
- Creating and editing sound effects and foley
- Exploring sound in movies
- Recording your own sound effects
ScreenWorks: The Grip Department
with Donavan Gallagher
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: The Grip Department (with Donavan Gallagher)
- Date: 7th - 9th May 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- What is a grip?
- A grip's role in planning and executing a shot.
- Camera movement using equipment such as dollies and cranes.
- Situational camera rigging.
- Camera and operator safety.
The Camera Department
with Sunbelt Rentals
- Placement Details: The Camera Department
- Date: 10 - 13 June 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Exploring the various roles that exist in the camera department, including D.I.T. and Video Playback
- Set etiquette and health and safety
- How to use the camera (including shutter speed, codecs and white balance)
- How to prepare and care for a camera kit
- Audio and microphones
- Lighting basics
ScreenWorks: Story Development
with Amanda Verlaque
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Story Development (with Amanda Verlaque)
- Date: 11 - 13 June 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Generating story ideas
- Choosing the style/format
- 3 Act and 5 Act structures
- Mapping out the idea
Virtual Production
with Studio Ulster at Ulster University
- Placement Details: Virtual Production
- Date: 17 - 19 June 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- What is virtual production and how will it change filmmakingin the future?
- An introduction to the technology and software used invirtual production
- How to generate content for virtual production
- A look forward towards Studio Ulster
- Explore the skillsets required to work in virtualproduction.
Virtual production combines physical and virtual filmmaking techniques tocreate cutting-edge media. It is considered by some to be the future offilm-making and in 2024, one of only a handful of VP studios in the world willbe opening in Northern Ireland
ScreenWorks: Music Composition
with Score Draw Music
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Music Composition (with Score Draw Music)
- Date: 18 - 20 June 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- An introduction into composing for media
- An introduction to sound design for media
- Experience creating a new bespoke music cue for a project in film and a project in animation
- Experience creating and editing sound design for a piece of animation
- An introduction to editing audio files
Prop Costume
with Enda Kenny
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Prop Costume (with Enda Kenny)
- Date: 25 - 28 June 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme includes;
- Creating a wearable piece of prop costume
- Practice fabrication techniques and paint methods
- Measure, cut and mould fabrics
- Age and breakdown costume to create a lived-in effect
Endais an award winning costume designer based in Belfast.
Healso works as a Prop Costume Maker, Textile Artist , Leather worker andMilliner for Theatre, TV and film. His film and TV work has seen him creatework in Ireland, UK, Spain, Budapest, Morocco . Film/TV credits includeDungeons and Dragons, The Northman , Game of thrones S1-6, Krypton S2,OutlanderS4, Frankenstein Chronicles , Halo-Nightfall, The Golden compass, City ofEmber, The Wolfman, Your Highness, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, King Arthur andElla Enchanted.
ScreenWorks Summer: Game Jam
with Kippie
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks Summer: Game Jam (with Kippie)
- Date: 22 - 26 July 2024
- Location: Belfast
- Ages: 14-16
This ScreenWorks programme will include:
- Build a video game from scratch
- Working together with industry professionals and peers
- Learn about the NI Games industry
- Find out more about careers opportunities in the Games industry
ScreenWorks Summer: Intro to the Art Department
with Maria Mallon
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks Summer: Intro to the Art Department (with Maria Mallon)
- Date: 29 July - 2 August 2024
- Location: Belfast
- Ages: 14-19
This ScreenWorks programme will include:
- An overview of the Art Department
- Set Design, including creating a moodboard and floor plans
- Set Decoration
- Prop Design and creating concept art for props
- Graphic Design in film
Working remotely from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Maria has over 10 years of Film and TV industry experience.
Originally a Film Graphic Designer, she began working as a Concept Artist in 2017.
Using her skills from Graphics, Maria is unique in her ability to follow through from Concept to Completion, from 3D modelling to draughting, creating CNC files and clear layouts for propmakers,.
Maria's work has been seen in Entertainment Weekly among other publications, with most recently her artwork featuring in 'The Art and Making of Dungeons and Dragons.'
ScreenWorks Summer: Location Management and Sustainability
with Adam Wilkinson
- Placement Details: ScreenWorks: Location Management and Sustainability (with Adam Wilkinson)
- Date: 13 - 15 August 2024
- Location: Belfast
This ScreenWorks programme will include:
- Overview of the Locations Department
- Sustainability in the Screen Industries
- Scouting for Locations
- Production Planning & Movement Orders
- Health & Safety
- Logistics of filming