WORK

For this semester we need to get 15 days worth of work experience. From the beginning I had some ideas of what I wanted to do for work experience and the options available to me.

I have a friend who digitises tapes and approached him about shadowing him. At first he was a bit reluctant mainly because he thought I would get bored with the work, however I assured him that any work I could do would be helpful, at such short notice I think we’ll all experience difficulty finding work experience before the end of May.

I remember speaking with Mike Johnston about doing colour correction with a friend of his who graded the first year films within a day with some great results. I’ve always been interested in colour correction, since I’m interested in editing I think having skills linked to the editing process like grading and creating graphics and captions are important skills to learn. I was given the contact information but have yet to phone him…

We have been offered a number of supplementary projects and one-offs to make up the 15 days. Mike, Lance and myself have volunteered to do a short feature on Bath Film Office. I will be acting as producer with Lance as Cameraman and Mike as Journalist. Since being on this course I feel most comfortable doing producer roles since I think I’m well organised and mostly good in delegating tasks and overseeing the production process. I’m also pretty bad with technical equipment and feel that other people are better suited to these roles.

The other opportunities we have are working with Bath FM doing shadowing in three different areas; Presenting, Management and Sales. (Balve wanted to do all three). And there are two work opportunities with Future Publishing who are well known in the class for making a lot of Computer Game and Biking magazines.