Interesting

Thinking of relating this to React, Rethink, Respond

Photography From Tenerife

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Updated CV

CV

Networking Post

Ed Bentham – AWF Founder – In charge of all AWF and AWF media, the oppertunities start here to travel the world

Tracey – Blue Planet Diving School – The chance to get my diving qualifications quick and cheaply to start underwater filming and photography.

Chris Light - AWF Media Producer – Have been asked and ideas suggested to join with chris and AWF when finishing my degree

Åsne Folstad- Our Norwegian friend and documentary star, always welcoming and ready for filming in norway, with a great deal of friends and family in the local community

Ken Fero – Documentary Film Maker/ lecturer

Joe Fox – Zoologist at Salford University

Johnny Bradford - Graphic Designer –student graphic desginer always on the look out for work and collaboration with media

Henry Tomson- Graphic Designer-  Graphic Designer –student graphic desginer always on the look out for work and collaboration with media

Proof of work

Below is a link that is a signed sheet to prove that I have worked the full time and more than 20 of work experience with the AWF

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Professional Experience- Presentation

Presentation

My professional experience revolved around many projects; I will have a hand in a few small projects but this presentation will be focusing more on my major project with the AWF. At this current point in life I feel the need to travel, open up to culture and invest in different locations for my media related work. The value of stock footage on an island like Tenerife and the contacts and opportunities I have made have been priceless. The experience has been invaluable providing myself with a wide range of individual and transferable skills. Since I worked on a documentary project in Norway I have had my eyes opened for traveling, the time spent on this project provided myself with a high mark. This suggested that I push harder and use my work placement to work with something new, different. The smaller projects were just a minimal amount of experience compared to my month in Tenerife. I wont pretend it didn’t happen but wasn’t fully involved in the whole process of the smaller projects just because of the time scale. This meant that I never get to be involved with the edit, products such as CCTV Terror and the Tennis project. This gave me a wider scope to work elsewhere. Focusing my main experience working with the AWF.

The main project for my work experience was a month’s placement in Tenerife with the AWF; this has been in the pipeline since the start of term one. My main task was to crate a project to promote the boats and magnify the beauty of the non-commercial side of the island. Meanwhile Building contacts and a large film portfolio to be used for future reference. All of this blending into my professional experience module giving me a good reason to film abroad, working on individual projects and providing myself with a great deal of potential with new contacts and companies. The underlying principle behind my work experience placement is to gain experience in the media industry become self efficient, initially the work placement I ended up choosing dose not seem to have relevance to the media on the exterior but what has become of this placement has fallen nicely. The reason I chose to do this is to provide myself with an opportunity, something I don’t get to do every day, and the work completed was totally different to what I have done before and that on my CV volunteer work would be a bonus. Almost like free-lance work, we had a free range of what we could do for the AWF, we collaborated with them to bring out the best in us, my personal strengths combined with the AWF’s resources. There is one thing that should be said, even though there was a great deal of traveling and research work into the sanitations for the AWF our workload didn’t end as we moved from project to project. I have even started to use my contacts and work with the diving center to get my diving qualifications on the go, providing the chance to film under water.

Because this module is working on building upon you, creating media and finding open doors towards jobs, I found a placement that worked on every level for the requirements of this module. Allowing myself to build on relationships and a fantastic portfolio that would impossible to capture without taking this opportunity.

Working with the AWF, charity based work with a great deal of opportunities; it was down to us what we wanted to do. It started out as volunteer work, working on the boats and talking to the public. It soon moved over to our projects; traveling, filming on the boats, capturing sunsets and sunrises in different terrains and weather conditions. The two main tasks were promotional videos for the boats and a promotional video of the island (view blog post). Most of the time was used by capturing unbelievable views and stunning sun sets, bringing together a much-appreciated short that the AWF team loved.

During my work experience I have noticed that depending on the person, determines what you gain from this experience. I have found in myself that working for the AWF I have learnt a lot and pushed to get what I needed to produce the best productions possible. I have developed life skills and new media skills that I have never had before. I have also opened up a great connection with the AWF, since they are a worldwide organisation with contacts I find it a big map of work that I could use at the end of my degree. These are just small segments of what opportunities this month has opened up, the contacts I have made and the friendships I have bonded have created a sense of worth. Time well spent, even to the point of discussing equipment and projects that are coming up in the future. AWF media and the diving school has opened up animal documentaries and promotional filming for myself to become involved in, also the chance to be Working in 3^rd world countries to enlighten the world and animals it posses with video conservation.

What to expect next, well as a media producer I never feel totally complete with all my work. I always expect more. Looking for the next trip, the next opportunity, I don’t want to miss out. I plan to take my Final Major Project abroad, working in many locations collaborating all the knowledge and contacts I have from my work experience. Enabling and transferring new knowledge into the next media project. I aspire to work within films, documentaries, animals, nature and the human life, but not just that, I have left doors open showing that I can work out of my comfort zone, different countries and different climates. I feel satisfied to say that I have been to extreme lengths to capture the scenery and stories throughout my short media life and I only want to push it further.

I would just like you to take the time to watch the Promotional video that reflects my time spent in Tenerife

And again the Maxicat promotional video

Conference With The AWF and team work

The talk with Ed

This was the defining pointing part to the trip of to Tenerife, when we arrived in Tenerife and got settled in over the following days, we started to collaborate and work with the AWF to work out what we wanted to gain from our time from the trip and what we could do for them as a company. We knew that the footage gathered from working on the boats and traveling the island would give us such a wide and fantastic portfolio for our future employers. This first hand and personal contact with the AWF, the boats we volunteer for and the beauty of the island itself.

When working for the AWF we are collaborating with the boats that work and watch the whales, dolphins, pilot whales and other sanitations Show the tourists how important and how amazing these animals are and preventing the whaling and pollution of our seas. Our job on the boats is to serve and aid the staff, take data on all sanitations that we see when scanning the sea. All the data, photos and footage used to be collected and researched into to help us as an organization to understand the marine life at a higher level.

The second part of our job is the media side was to be decided, with Ed we sat down and worked out what exactly we wanted to do, we put forward out ideas and our feeling towards why we where here. Ed himself had a few ideas of what we should and what he would like us to do. It was almost like a promotional video but not towards the AWF as such is was more so the feeling of Tenerife as an island and what can be like other than the commercial areas were Tenerife seems to be so focused on, although its their main income the island is ten times better around the mountains and around the masca area full of rock and wildlife, im going to try and capture all of this footage to better the knowledge of the visitors. But its not just about that this project is to capture beauty in video form to be placed on the AWF’s website, giving the volunteer and the new website for adventure holidays to see some of the most beautiful parts of Tenerife allowing an incite to the beauty of the island therefore brining attraction and attention n to the AWF’s sites. Giving more opportunities for the AWF to expand and gain a bigger hand in the boating community, prevention of the whaling and start up projects around the world.

This video will be placed on the new site attracting all kinds of audiences from young to old, allowing the island with such attraction to bring awareness to the site opening a world of intense potential in more ways than one, adventure, wildlife and beauty. The quality and content of this project has to be at such a high standard to become a star attraction to the site, identifiying what can be seen and done around the island. Providing potentiona customers the ability to see what there in for before they arrive, opening there eyes to a world such a professional unit.

Below is a link that is a signed sheet to prove that I have worked the full time and more than 20 of work experience with the AWF

During our time in Tenerife we worked very closely as a group there are many posts throughout this blog that state how often and how well we worked together. All ideas and filming was shared and based around our personal skills, as i have said before I have been very happy with the group as a whole and the work between us and the AWF, it was very enjoyable and worth while to be apart of such a great organization. I would like to say the research and planning stage was a brilliant way to get everything straight and ready beacuse a lot of the time we knew exactly what to expect and were to be. The fact that as a team we knew who could do what and who could fix certain aspects if things went wrong.

There was a definite certainty between group members on how and how well we could operate the camera and get it to the highest standard, we had a lot of playing around and changing with the white balance and pull focus etc so it was a big learning curve alos another learning curve with the climate because the weather would chop and change and effect how the footage would look.

Other projects

Another project I have been asked to take part in is to do with the music student’s final performance. This is an ongoing thing past the end of the module purely because its such a big task to edit around my months placement, I have recorded and started to put together the second years final music performance exam. Working around my time in Tenerife and shortly after I would have to hand in my professional experience module.

The music project was just one night of filming, getting involved with the 3 different sessions that night, three sections to the night including big band, jazz-fusion and acoustic and band acts. The night would consist of 7 hours worth of footage. On the night I planned to take a team of three, one for sound, camera one and two. The second years asked me to be involved within a project revolving around their final performance I was approached by the second year professional practice music students to capture footage that was to be used for their final examination and for website promotional activity, this was to be done in one evening and I had the planning of one day, I was asked last minuet to gather my team and execute the camera work that evening

The project with Ken Fero was called CCTV Terror TV, this consisted of a one day set up and shoot of an interview, facts and opinions around CCTV in the Birmingham area from an elderly resident that has lived in this area all his life working on an interview and location shot to allow the world to see his view on life in CCTV terror. His views were for the CCTV camera due to his feel of safety and satisfaction. Of course we had to share the same light and film in exactly the same way as the whole documentary. During this day I worked on the lighting and sound, this was a helping hand for ken and was happy to help film stock footage and work the full day in and around birminham.

All the projects I have been involved in and currently working on are:

CCTV Terror

Tennis project

Big band and jazz fusion 2nd year final performance

AWF Tenerife work placement