Jason Bevan is Former Head of Creative Development & VP Marketing EMEA Warner Bros. Studios Founder & Managing Director Content Creator Studios. He reveals how the some of the best known film-makers, cast and studios he worked with come up with their iconic film ideas and stories and how we can all use their simple, powerful techniques to rocket-fuel our innovation and creativity.
Jason was responsible for the creative development process at Warner Bros. Studios, marketing legendary movies in EMEA from the Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts Films, the Lego movies, The Hobbit trilogy Joker, Aquaman, and Batman/The Dark Knight, right through to Oscar winners like A Star Is Born, comedies including the Hangover films and chilling horror titles like the Conjuring and IT franchises. He has worked directly with some of the world’s most legendary filmmakers, storytellers, cast and film studios. From directors like Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan and Peter Jackson to legendary cast: Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Dwayne Johnson, Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt….even Clint Eastwood.
His tools for creating culture of bold creativity are all backed up with engaging behind the scenes stories from his time working on some of the world’s best-known movies and people, showing how the ideation techniques led to iconic film ideas.
Jason Bevan worked with teams in 37 countries at Warner Bros. and was known for his passion for pushing creative boundaries on campaigns across all movie genres. Jason also worked for The Walt Disney Company in London and Paris and continues to work with most of the top film and entertainment studios on their “tent pole” movie titles as co-founder of Content Creator Studios, based in London and Los Angeles.
In addition to speaking on the TED circuit and as an expert speaker for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Jason Bevan has been on the judging panel for various highly regarded awards in the creative industry and conducts talks and masterclasses for major global brands, companies, governments, NGOs and renown trade and industry events/organisations worldwide. Jason is English-French bilingual.
Packed with insider secrets, movie footage and inspiration from 19 years working in the big film world, Jason shows how innovation and creativity has become one of our most valuable and potent business skills where humans still outperform the growing powers of artificial intelligence. He demystifies the psychology of how we generate ideas with simple logic and gives clear, easy to follow steps and tools we can all apply to our work and home lives, regardless of our walk of life. All taken from some of the most creative people in the film world; Jason’s talks show how we can tap into the creativity and storytelling skills we already have, but often don’t use…including people that don’t think they are innovative! It’s a chance to transform your thinking, identify what triggers your own ideas and embed culture of creativity into your organisation, with a fun, uplifting and highly energetic, movie-led experience. Clear, practical tips are provided to take away that can be very quickly and easily used to strong and sometimes transformational effect.
Jason has been lucky enough to work directly with JK Rowling and the families of other storytelling legends including Roald Dahl and JRR Tolkien. He saw how they captivate their audiences and readers by allowing their own personalities to drive what they write, giving exceptional passion, power and personal relatability to their characters and settings. He got insight into how they channel their physical environments where they write and their own experiences to inspire and energise their thinking; allowing them to find new, refreshing and potent ways to engage audiences imaginations. Jason shows how they and others did this, and most importantly gives five easy to follow techniques from the big storytellers and their creations that we can all enjoy and use effectively to inspire and powerfully communicate.
These sessions from 2 hours to 2 days focus on a specific brief; helping you push your creativity exponentially; removing barriers to traditional thinking like sticking to previous conventions and “train tracks of thought” or breaking down concern for airing genuinely bold new suggestions in the room. Jason offers highly effective, straightforward tools & working sessions to liberate your thinking, identify and break through restrictive tendencies and reveal undiscovered creativity in yourself and your team.
• The insiders tips and “secret sauce” from big Hollywood movie studios and film- makers on how they develop some of the world’s freshest, most ingenious ideas and storytelling for iconic movies; with clear practical tools on how we can all do the same.
• How to embed a culture of creativity into your organisation and your own career by understanding how we all develop ideas, what triggers your own creativity and what may be blocking your ability to innovate.
• Easy to apply techniques for everyone to move from ideas that focus on more routine adaptions and iterations of previous activations into brave, performance- changing new thinking.
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