On Wednesday 10th May 2017, we filmed a promotional video for English Heritage on the Isle of Wight. This shoot is now one of the best shoots I have ever worked on. We were organised, on time, professional, imaginative, and fun to be around. Everyone was on point and worked so hard to achieve their…
Jenna The Great is an independent short film written and directed by Dan Tonkin. It’s a story about a cocky student; Jenna, waking up with peoples chosen favourite philosopher; Aristotle, to deliver you a funny hidden chapter of history about the most unlikeliest of friendships ever forged. On the 26th of April, I filmed the material…
Music Concrete is still going in the 21st Century. After completing the unit Stories And Spaces – an art instillation that combines the use of projection mapping and music concrete- I continue to stumble upon creatives unknowingly making music concrete pieces. It’s fascinating finding these videos appear on my Facebook wall or YouTube homepage of what some…
This is the account of a two day shoot conducted on the south coast near the village of Beer in late March 2017. A lot of things happened on this shoot and I shall tell them as fairly as possible without drifting too much into opinion. I was contacted five days before the shoot as…
Shortlisting the applicants for our fake job description. Even though we knew the people applying for our job, we had to remain impartial and treat this task seriously. That being said, one person from the group did not send us a CV, and the other sent us a three paged CV with the third page…
Twisted is a grad project by a third year Media Production student. The film was shot over seven days, though I was only brought on for three. This is the account of Day 5, the first day I was on call. Being on this shoot was not an enjoyable experience. The days were long, the…
We’ve made and tailored CVs, but to really get an understand of what media companies are looking for, our next task is to make a fake media-related job description and request other members in our class apply to it. This task challenges us to think ‘like an employer’. Job Descriptions – A list of tasks and…
Here’s where Working in the Media Industry gets juicy. We actually discuss what should go on a media tailored CV and craft one which would be good enough to send to potential employers. This CV would not be one of fiction. We had a tremendous lecture by guest Gary Farrell who works for Frame 25,…
Working in the Media Industry continues with the second task of thinking about the personal skills you have and the skills that particular future destinations might require of you. The first thing to identify is the difference between ‘soft skills’ and ‘hard skills’. Hard skills are those technical, and teachable, abilities that can be tested.…
Working in the Media Industry is our final ‘theory’ unit for second year Media Production at Bournemouth University. This unit is designed to help us get out into the real world and discover what opportunities there are when we graduate. The unit will cover how to write and tailor a CV towards a prospective job…