The Crown: From Storyboard to Screen
Watch the highlights from RTS Futures The Crown: From Storyboard to Screen event.
The Crown
The Crown: From Storyboard to Screen
Taking any script and bringing the story to life on screen is no easy feat, and when the story is based on the most famous family in the world, the task carries an elevated sense of responsibility.
“We’re not just recreating history,” said The Crown's production designer Martin Childs.
“It’s our own version of the world – it’s not a documentary. We try and find the mood and tone of our version of it,” added costume designer Jane Petrie.
The Crown sets the bar for British drama
Part royal soap, part British political lesson, The Crown is all first-rate drama. To mark the release of its second season on Netflix, a packed RTS pre-Christmas event at the House of Commons heard creator and writer Peter Morgan, executive producer Suzanne Mackie and director Philippa Lowthorpe discuss how they made the award-winning series.
Season 2 of The Crown, produced by UK indie Left Bank Pictures, begins with the Suez crisis in 1956 and ends with the Profumo affair in 1963.
RTS Student Drama Masterclass with Andy Harries
Andy Harries, Chief Executive of Left Bank Pictures and Executive Producer of The Crown, looks back on his career in drama, and offers tips for those looking to make it in the industry.
Making The Crown: Q&A with the creators
Sponsor Damian Collins MP and chair Baroness Bonham-Carter lead a Q&A with The Crown creators Peter Morgan, Philippa Lowthorpe and Suzanne Mackie after the RTS The Crown screening event on 20th December at the House of Commons.
Read the full event report here.
The Crown screening
Join the Royal Television Society for a special episode screening of season two of The Crown in the House of Commons.
This week's top TV: 4 - 10 December
Food: Nigella: at My Table
Monday
8.30pm, BBC2
Sherlock, Planet Earth II and The Crown among RTS Craft & Design Award winners
The Royal Television Society has announced the winners of the Craft & Design Awards 2017 at a glittering ceremony in central London.
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Andy Harries' top tips for working in drama
Take your time: “If you are interested in television, you do not have to decide at this stage of the game what you want to do in TV – I have done almost everything … I don’t think it matters doing lots of different things until you finally settle … It took me some time to realise what I was really good at, which was producing.”