The Whole Picture Toolkit: enabling mentally healthy productions - Unscripted TV workshop

As part of our Step Up strand, we're offering training to help individuals coming back into the industry after a break, moving into a new role or responsibility level, or improving skills in unscripted TV. 

The Whole Picture Toolkit is a free website covering the pre-production, production, and post-production stages, designed with the help of mental health and industry experts to give your production the tools, guidance, and know-how to help mitigate against some of the production pressures impacting mental health and wellbeing. It supports systemic cultural change and aims to bring about positive working practices in across the Film and TV industry.

The Film and TV Charity’s dedicated team of Toolkit producers will show you how to navigate the Toolkit and advise on the most relevant resources specific to your unscripted genre. 

In the workshop, we’ll take a closer look at the mental health risk assessment process, devised by the Film and TV Charity, create wellbeing plans, and consider how best they be communicated to support teams during the film and TV production process.

This session is part of a series of two webinars (one Unscripted and one Scripted) and four workshops (two Unscripted and two Scripted) is brought to you by the Film and TV Charity, in partnership with ScreenSkills.

Who it's for

The workshops are designed to be useful for everyone in unscripted TV, regardless of job role, career stage or position.

The majority of the Unscripted Skills Fund (USF) online short course offering is for those at early career stage and above. As a result, we generally require applicants to have at least three credits (unless working in a traditionally uncredited role). If you strongly feel you would still benefit from the training, please email USF@screenskills.com so we can assess if an exception should be made.

We are committed to ensuring all our courses are accessible to everyone. This course is designed to be as interactive as possible.

Please email the above address if you have any access requirements and we will be delighted to help, be that clarifying the form such interaction is likely to take or discussing reasonable adjustments.

How to apply

This session will take place online via Zoom. Click ‘apply now’ at the top of the page and follow the instructions to apply for your place: you must login or register before you are able to complete your application.

If you need additional support to complete your application or require the application form in an alternative format please contact USF@screenskills.com

Places on these free online courses are limited and applications are often highly competitive. To stand the best chance of securing a place, please be sure to consider the following:

• When asked to list your three most recent credits, please include the programme title and your job role.
• When asked what you hope to gain from the course, please be concise but ensure you cover the specific elements of the topic you would like to gain knowledge of and what gaps in your skillset you believe the course may address. A rewording of the course title or a general comment on career progression does not tell us much about how this course would benefit you.

If you are no longer able to attend, we ask you to please use the 'decline ticket' function on the right hand side of the page so that we can release your place. Our sessions are often oversubscribed, so we’d like to give other freelancers the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.

This session is supported by the ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund which invests in training for the unscripted workforce thanks to contributions from broadcasters, SVoDs and production companies.

This course would normally cost participants to attend, but thanks to this support, we are able to offer it to you for free. If you fail to attend, we reserve the right to request reimbursement of costs, unless your place can be taken by someone else.