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Shadowing and the Shadow’s shadow of doubt.
In my last blog I compared myself to the film School of Rock’s main protagonist Dewey Finn. I discussed how I was a like to Finn in my approach to teaching. This included attempting to put on a convincing persona that I was destined to be a great teacher. This time it is not so much about…
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Companies Don’t Want Videos. They want followers.
How Filmmaking from a Marketing Perspective Helped me Create Better Videos and Happier Clients… There is little value in spending hours planning, coordinating, shooting, editing, and publishing video content if it doesn’t reach the right audience, or any audience for that matter. My role as Video Content Creator for Queen’s University Belfast Language Department, was…
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First Days on Placement – A Learning Curve
After the challenging task of finding a placement and facing rejection constantly from different production companies, I finally started at DoubleBand Films in January. My role while on placement is as a Research Assistant, a role which prior to starting I had little experience in which led to some learning experiences as I found some…
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Reflections on simulated interviews in the creative industry
Introduction, ‘Description’: In this blog, I will expand on the learning and development the simulated interviews prompted and how I plan on utilising the information gained in developing my career opportunities. I will expand upon how my experience in this situation relates to the reflective learning diagrams spoken about in my previous blog post. As…
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Through adversity to the stars
I faced the ultimate challenge during my placement at Action Mental Health. I will be using Borton’s model from 1970 as summarised in Jasper 2013 as a tool to help me reflect upon this time. This reflective model is broken into three aspects; “What?” which entails a description of the events. “So what?” which entails…
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Stepping into the Digital Limelight: Acting in Motion Capture for Virtual Production
Introduction: On an ordinary Wednesday of my placement at HUMAIN, I was engaging in my routine tasks as a Junior 3D Modeller. Everything changed, once the following phrase; “WE HAVE ALLYSHEA”, was exclaimed and echoed into the main office, from the management space. Naturally, my internal panic started to creep in but I still tried…
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Now That the Shoe’s on the Other Foot…
Isn’t it funny how life pans out? Allow me to illustrate a scene for you. It is an unpleasantly frosty afternoon on 6th February 2020, Belfast. The headlines say the new flu-like virus has, to nobody’s delight, arrived in Northern Ireland. How strange. A 17-year old Grace suddenly remembers that she’s in class for Film…
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A ‘Giant’ Opportunity
Intro Work placements within both school and university have become a staple of the education experience. As described by Inceoglu, Ilke et al, (2019) “transitions from higher education to employment have long been of scholarly and practical interest, and work placements are crucial transition experiences that can help career adaptation and development of career resources”.…
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An Insight into work-based learning at Speed Motion Films, Using Gibb’s reflective model
“work experience can be for a short space of time, it can be with any size or status of employer or freelancer, and it can be arranged with a well-planned telephone call, email, or letter. […] There is no point spending a lot of time and energy on getting yourself work experience in something that…
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A Reel Adventure
My First Day In PR Approaching the door of the office I was more scared and nervous than I ever had been before, here I was meeting Conor the Videographer for the PR company Lighthouse Communications. I had faced job interviews many times, events where I spoke to complete strangers, even first dates, and yet…