CITV’s Share a Story returns in 2014!

Thursday 27 March 2014By ESFA Office

Last Updated:
10/02/2021 10:49:29

ITV Share a Story Competition

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CITV’s double-BAFTA-winning competition, Share a Story, is returning to the channel in March and is looking for a new bunch of lucky kids to make the leap from story-tellers to film-makers!

The competition itself is simple: children aged from 5 to 12 write and draw a short story. Animators, producers, and TV professionals help select the winners in a judging process organised by the kids’ film-making organisation Into Film. Eight lucky children will then have their stories turned into animations and broadcast on CITV in October Half term.

And that’s not all: the winning kids also visit CITV at Salford’s MediaCity to direct the films themselves. They’ll work closely with designers, animators and editors, and even record their own voiceover. What’s more, they get to peek behind the curtain of TV production, as they go behind the scenes at ITV Manchester.

Previous winners of Share a Story including 2011 winner Daniel Lee raved about the competition: “If I had to give it a mark out of ten, I’d give it more than ten!” Daniel is one of the many Share a Story kids who have gone on to other creative endeavours, he’s started acting, something his mum says he’d never have done without the Share a Story boost. 2010 winner Hannah Flint has started making stop-motion animations in her spare time; her mum told us, “Hannah’s confidence and passion for all things animation has come from her experience”.

Everything kids need to enter will be available at itv.com/citv/share-a-story, including the storyboard and story page templates they need to complete. The competition opens on Thursday 20th March, and entries have to be received by 6pm on Friday 2nd May.

So keep watching CITV and get ready to share those stories!

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