To find four weeks worth (150hrs) of work experience for this unit has been extremely challenging. Everytime I thought I had found something it turned out that they would prefer someone with proper experience rather than a student. In the end I contacted a family friend, Michael Ryan, who is high-up in the production company Handmade Films (Life Of Brian, The Long Good Friday and Time Bandits). Unfortunately, he was in Greece during the summer and has been back and forth to Paris in the past couple of weeks so communicating with him has been difficult. He did manage to give me details for another production company called Midsummer Films and had informed them that I was looking for working experience and given that they are working on the film Tomb of the Dragon it was work worth experiencing. On Monday 17th September I went up to Camden Town to their base but due to the fact that they are coming to the end of the post-production they would be stretched to find me work to experience. Luckily, on the same day a phone call with Newnham Court Shopping Village turned out a better result.
I researched the website for Newnham Court and found that they didn't have an advert on the website to highlight the many different shops that are in the Village. I contacted David Saunderson through the DSH public relations and he was enthusiastic with the idea of an advert to put on the website. I suggested to him that there are two possibilities; 1 being an advert for Newnham Court in its entirety (showing everything it has to offer, and the 2nd being collective adverts for each shop - this has been left to me to decide (once I have the footage) what would look best.
Well done for persevering - work experience is almost as challenging as finding paid work so don't be downhearted! The Newnham Court idea is good - look at their existing promos and try to ascertain what sort of promo would work online. Show the development of your idea on your blog as for the major project - the reasoning and process you are following from gaining the commission to clarifying the brief and pitching your ideas etc. Formalise the approach so that you can demonstrate the use of appropriate metholodgies. Well done!
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