Ever since I left school and went to college I always wanted to be someone creative, someone who can wake up in the morning with a really great idea and by bed time have about 500 different ideas to back that one up. However I didn’t know what I would be creative in until a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to join him on the colleges media course, then it just clicked!
Since then I have been learning and studying everything I can about media and how it is produced, from print to single camera drama I have knowledge about it. What I really want from all this is to become either a director or a writer, maybe both. For the moment however it is all about finishing my degree in media communication, Hollywood will have to wait.
Once I have finished my degree I will have spent 7 years in higher education and as a media student, it will then be time to put all those years of studying to the test. I don’t presume for one moment that the second I walk out of the university doors that I will land right into a big director role, that would be silly. My plan for the moment will be to acquire a job in television and hopefully use that to forge a future film career. in 3 year’s time I would like to think that I will be working on building my own film production portfolio and entertaining people with it on the internet (or at a well-respected cinema chain, you never know your luck).
Being a media student has taught me how to work in a team as well, creating a media product is like being part of a machine, and a machine can only work if all the cogs are working towards the same goal. My philosophy when it comes to film and media is if you haven’t enjoyed the making of it the audience is not going to enjoy watching it. I am of course not suggesting that play is more important than work but you don’t get a laugh out of your job then why do it?
Despite nearly 7 years of study and learning how to work in a team I would say that my work is still not at its apex yet, there is always something new to learn. I’m still a little rusty when it comes to using lighting in film production and Photoshop is still like an overcomplicated form of Microsoft paint to me, but like I said I’m still learning. Where I don’t need help is in the editing of audio and video, I have used a number of different editing software and have become competent with all of them.
This link below is not my latest work (I look a little older than I was in this video) but it is perhaps one of my best examples of enjoying a task and producing some really good work. This was also the second outing for my media company VFM Productions which stands for Vision Frontier Media (but between you and me it originally stood for value for money).
By the end of filming I was nearly shattered after all the running we had to do for the video but it was one hell of a ride. I like to think that although this is a music video that my talent for creating single camera dramas flourished from this experience of working in a real group of likeminded individuals, I was given the space I needed to think up what would happen in the video and how it would tie into the music and when I had hit a brick wall they were there to help me. I would also like to mention that my presence in this video and most of my work was down to logistical problems, I don’t wish to proceed with a career in acting as in all honesty I’m a really bad actor.
Later on I may upload some of my latest work for your viewing pleasure; these will include my scd on a fictional world war 3 (epic) and another scd on the life of a grim reaper (really epic).
So for the moment I hope you keep checking in for the latest in my grass roots beginning of a media career and that when I upload my latest work you will give it a look.
See you around
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