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Script Editor If you're looking for a script editor experienced in working with first-time writers and experienced talent, Ian can help. Ian is a reader for Script, the agency for creative writers in the West Midlands, giving advice to wideranging writers on their scripts. Ian's first feedback was praised "for such excellent analysis and comprehensive advice" by the recipient. Ian has also edited work for Arts Council funded group Radio Rep and prison inmates for BBC WM, advising new writers whose work was to be broadcast for the first time, and IQK has been consulted by other scriptwriters. |
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Before turning professional, Ian was Head Writer on award-winning student soap opera Lenton Boulevard at URN 1350 (The University of Nottingham). He instigated and co-ordinated the entire writing process, managing a team of up to ten writers across two weekly series in 2002-3 and liaising with the production team. Working with up to 35 colleagues, Ian's ambition was to ensure the programme was 'entertaining, not wholly serious or spurious', and to leave an enduring legacy for the station and university. He established flexible but structured scripting processes including various stages of feedback and discussion with the writers in his team, all to tight weekly deadlines. |
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Lenton Boulevard won 'Best Entertainment Show' at the 2003 Radio 1 Student Radio Awards (left) and was featured prominently at BBC Nottingham (who hosted the series online and interviewed Ian and co-founder Wayne Widdowson live on air), and The Nottingham Evening Post (full colour third-page feature). The series continues to run; Ian continued to advise his successors when requested as recently as autumn 2004. Executive Producer Wayne Widdowson has gone on to run a successful community drama project for Radio New Zealand. | |
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The Radio Rep are a group who look to mix professionals and volunteers to produce polished, high quality work that retains its roots in the community, and broadcast it as widely as possible. As well as helping them achieve professional standards of scripting, Ian has advised them on production matters. Ian's most recent commission has been for Nicky Dowd's Coming Home, an affectionate, fast-moving farce about returning a body to Ireland for funeral. Ian was also writer and editor of the surrealistic and wicked media satire Trash FM in 2000-1. Email enquiries@iqkennedy.co.uk to request IQK's advice on your own scripts! |
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