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BBC Education Content Brief
KS1: The Gunpowder Plot / The Great Fire of London
October 2020
BBC Education Content Brief
Key Stage 1 Resources:
The Gunpowder Plot
&
The Great Fire of London
1BBC Education Content Brief
KS1: The Gunpowder Plot / The Great Fire of London
October 2020
Introduction to BBC Education:
Thank for your interest in this commissioning brief. This commissioning round is being run and
managed by BBC Education - part of BBC Children’s and Education. The department is responsible
for delivering the BBC’s Royal Charter commitments to commission and produce educational and
learning content, to help with both formal and informal learning outcomes, for use throughout the
United Kingdom.
One of our aims is to promote and support formal educational goals for children and teenagers,
meeting the requirements of the different national curricula, by producing engaging learning
content for use in the classroom.
Some of our current brands that support formal learning in UK classrooms are:
BBC Teach: home to the BBC’s teacher-facing content for Early Years, Primary and Secondary
education and Teacher Support.
BBC Bitesize: providing children, young people and adults across the UK with personalised
curriculum-linked resources to support their education.
BBC Learning Campaigns: large scale, impactful initiatives that aim to tackle a societal or cultural
deficit - often in partnership with others.
Media use in the classroom and the provision of media in schools is a fast-changing environment.
The days of broadcast content for schools and teachers setting VCRs in the middle of the night to
record it are long gone. With the increased use of the internet in classrooms teachers now have
unprecedented access to a whole range of resources to help with delivering the curriculum.
Teachers come to the BBC because it is a trusted brand and a recognised provider of quality teaching
resources. The content we are seeking to commission will be available to teachers through our BBC
Teach brand, a dedicated teaching resource site at www.bbc.com/teach.
BBC Teach:
BBC Teach is home to all of the BBC’s teacher-facing content and brings together thousands of
educational short films and associated support materials on one site. BBC Teach is working closely
with teacher groups to identify gaps in our short-form provision and to commission the right content
to fill them.
2BBC Education Content Brief
KS1: The Gunpowder Plot / The Great Fire of London
October 2020
BBC Teach - Key Stage 1 Topics: The Gunpowder Plot & The Great Fire of London
The content we will be commissioning will support BBC Teach’s provision for KS1 - that is, children
aged 5 to 7 years old. The content will focus on two popular C17th History topics - The Gunpowder
Plot (1605) and The Great Fire of London (1666) - but will also support a cross-curricular approach to
learning by including opportunities to explore a range of objectives from across the KS1 curriculum.
The content will be supported by a set of Notes for use by teachers - which forms part of the
commission - and which will provide both a guide to the content of the films and a range of follow-
up activities for pupils in the classroom.
It is anticipated that the content will be predominantly animated, though it may include other styles
including creative use of stills and graphics, etc alongside the animation. The health and safety of
your production team is of course paramount, and it is crucial that the styles adopted can be
achieved in accordance with any special measures in place to restrict the spread of Covid-19 and any
current guidance on social distancing.
What we want:
This commission is for approximately 26 minutes of video in total, arranged as:
• 3 x 4-minute films exploring The Gunpowder Plot
• 3 x 4-minute films exploring The Great Fire of London
• 4 x 30-second social media promotions - two for each topic - promoting the full range and
scope of the content.
The films:
It is anticipated that the films will cover some or all of the following content and learning objectives:
The Gunpowder Plot
• To identify similarities and differences between life now and life in 1605.
• To understand who Guy Fawkes was. To understand who the other key figures involved in
the Plot were and their roles in it.
• To understand why the Plot happened.
• To know the key events of the Plot.
• To know the outcome of the Plot and what it meant for those who took part in it.
• To explore changes in living memory by finding out about the ways in which the Plot has
been commemorated and how these have changed.
The Great Fire of London
• To identify similarities and differences between life now and life in 1666.
• To identify similarities and differences in buildings now and buildings in 1666.
• To identify the causes of the Fire.
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KS1: The Gunpowder Plot / The Great Fire of London
October 2020
• To know who Thomas Farynor was and the other key figures associated with the Fire,
including Samuel Pepys.
• To know the key events of the Fire and the methods that were used to attempt to contain it.
• To know the outcome of the Fire and understand how buildings changed following the Fire,
including St Paul’s Cathedral and Sir Christopher Wren.
• To understand the differences between Fire prevention and control now and in the C17th by
comparing the two.
It is also anticipated that the films for the two topics will share a similar style and approach and may
also share key talent.
It is essential that in addition to the above objectives the films should also promote the aims of the
KS1 History curriculum, details of which can be found here.
Social media:
Additionally, we require four short films, typically 30 seconds long, that can be used on social media
platforms to showcase the content to teachers. These should draw on - but not be directly lifted
from - the main films. Presentation should include eye-catching text and graphics, where
appropriate, and subtitles.
Additionally, we also require the text for a set of Teacher Notes that will guide teachers in their use
of the content and offer:
• an overview of the content
• links to the curriculum included in the content, by subject
• any necessary supporting information, including stills and graphics
• suggestions for how the video content can be used to range even more widely across the
curriculum - eg extend the topic into English, Science, D&T, Mathematics, Art, etc
• a range of resources that can be downloaded to support the above objectives (eg planning
sheets for diary entries or letters / sequencing activities / poster templates / etc)
Additionally, all of the content should:
• be sensitive to a diverse audience, including the national regions of the UK
• be engaging and accessible to the entire audience regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability
or culture
• be educationally robust, with all the content devised and delivered in consultation with an
educational consultant
• give attention to ensuring the longevity of the content, particularly with regard to any props
such as technology (mobile phones etc) and the way that any participants are styled /
dressed
• give particular attention to ensuring the content has appeal to the specific age group - that
is, children aged 5 to 7 years old.
4BBC Education Content Brief
KS1: The Gunpowder Plot / The Great Fire of London
October 2020
Education Consultant:
You will need to work with and contract one or more educational specialists / consultants who will
be involved throughout the process to ensure all learning objectives are covered and content is
accurate, relevant and suitable for the age group. Your consultant should provide advice on which
content is the most useful for the audience, as well as reflecting the requirements of the national
curricula and guidance for schools.
All content (ie concepts, initial scripts, final scripts, rough cuts, fine cuts, audio etc) will need to be
reviewed by the consultant before they are sent to us.
Scripts:
BBC Education requires full consultation during the scripting process, including the viewing of drafts
to ensure scripts hit the learning points, and full sign off on completed scripts. Please allow time in
your schedule for BBC reviews.
Budget:
The BBC Learning tariff ranges from £500 to £2000 per minute for video content. Budget is
dependent on the idea and editorial ambition.
Your budgeting should not assume the BBC will deliver archive at no cost. [Independent Producers
have access to the BBC archives subject to the usual copyright restrictions of reuse etc.]
Please refer to the Independent Production User Guide and the FAQ for Independent companies
more information: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/PACT_june_2016.pdf
Budget section to include:
Please provide a budget summary - more details of which may be requested at a later date.
The finer details of the payment schedule will be agreed with the BBC Production Manager on
commission. However, without exceptional business justification, BBC Education will pay no more
than 10% of the total fee on signature, no less than 35% of the total fee on final acceptance of (i)
project delivery and (ii) post-production paperwork and the remainder of the payments against
delivery milestones as agreed within the budget summary.
Proposed payment schedule:
• 10% on signature of agreement.
• 25% on script sign off.
• 30% on sign-off of all rough cuts and metadata.
• 35% on BBC acceptance of full delivery, final paperwork and post-production paperwork.
Documentation:
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KS1: The Gunpowder Plot / The Great Fire of London
October 2020
The following post-production documentation must be completed:
• Post-production paperwork must be completed on Silvermouse. Details will be outlined in
the contract to the awarded commission.
• Post-production transcript - time-coded.
• Online compliance form.
Deliverables:
• 6 x HD video delivered in H264 MP4 format and also uncompressed with separate audio
tracks
• 6 x subtitle files as .xml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zmgnng8)
• 8 x HD video for social media films (four on each topic, in both 16:9 and 1:1 aspect ratio)
• Post-production paperwork (as above)
• Text for accompanying Teacher Notes in Word format.
• All underlying source files of artwork as layered files – ideally PSD or AI or both.
Commissioning schedule:
Brief Live: W/C 12th October 2020
Deadline for proposals: 1st November 2020
Pitches (via Zoom, Skype or similar): W/C 9th November 2020
Decision and award of work: 16th November 2020
Project delivery: 19th March 2021
Please note that this document is for information purposes only and does not form part of a
contractual agreement with the BBC.
Contracting:
This is a stand-alone new media commission and the BBC will require all rights in the content,
worldwide and on all platforms. The commission will be contracted using the BBC’s New Media
Rights Framework 2 agreement. Further information on the BBC New Media Frameworks can be
found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/online/articles/how-we-work#framework
BBC Policies and Guidelines:
For information on these please follow this link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/production
BBC Health & Safety:
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KS1: The Gunpowder Plot / The Great Fire of London
October 2020
The BBC needs to ensure that any Independent Production Company it commissions is able and
competent to make the programme with due consideration for health and safety. The following link
will take you to a guide which outlines the BBC's health & safety vetting procedure and
requirements: https://www.bbc.co.uk/safety/generalsafety/thirdparties/working-with-indies.html
If the content being commissioned involves working with children, then ensure that you are familiar
with the BBC’s Child Protection Policy and the Child Protection Safe Guarding Framework, which
provides a guide to the minimum levels of safeguarding on any productions. Information on this can
be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/production/articles/working-with-children
If you have any queries or concerns about any of the guidelines or polices then please contact the
Production Manager.
Proposals:
Proposals should be provided as either MS Word documents or PDFs. They should be a maximum of
15 pages long. Any large files (over 5mb) should be delivered separately from the proposal itself (via
a password-protected video site or secure file transfer).
Proposals should include:
• A clear editorial vision: an overall vision for the films and the different approaches that may
be adopted between them, depending on subject matter.
• Schedule and Budget breakdown.
• Suggestions for key talent: presenters / animators / etc.
• Evidence of your capacity to deliver the content.
Where animation is proposed we welcome the inclusion of samples that will clearly indicate the
intended style. We also welcome samples of script, especially when a particular tone or approach is
suggested.
Next steps:
All proposals should be submitted via email to rebekka.campbell@bbc.co.uk and
andrew.barnes@bbc.co.uk by midnight on 1st November 2020.
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