Telestars

YouTube Meets The X Factor

AIMS

Combining the soaring success of YouTube with the tried and tested Pop Idol and X Factor formats, Telestars is a cross-platform, cross-genre, cross-cultural,'Together TV' event with wide audience appeal - maximising potential and releasing creative synergies across all media sectors in innovative, informative, entertaining, challenging and exciting new ways:

• Developing talent across all sectors
• Meeting key core objectives in professional, educational and grant funded sectors
• Developing social inclusion through an open and diverse competition, accessible to all social groups regardless of background, experience, education, race, gender, class or age
• Enabling participation in the production process by all social groups at all levels
• Promoting the development of ideas at every stage in the creative process and exploring opportunities for their realisation
• Maximizing investment from public and commercial sources
• Increasing effective and imaginative use of low-cost digital desk-top production technologies in broadcast production
• Maximising the potential of everyone, everywhere to innovate in all areas of broadcast production