Over the last two years, I have been involved in many worth-while experiences through college from trips to extra work to gain personal and professional experience. From doing all of these extra projects I have done also allowed me to meet new and interesting people who work in the industry or could be a link to the industry who could be helpful in the future when applying for work within the industry. Some of them have taught me new skills that I have noted and will aim to use further down the line when I go to uni and eventually look for a job within the industry.
Through trips planned by the college, I have met a man named Scott who works in radio at Sunderland University and instructed us on how the radio works and how the process works in the modern day and how beneficial it can be to work in the radio. As well as Scott, I met a woman who works in the film and TV department, she instructed us on how they use equipment behind the camera on a news broadcast and to show how simple it actually is with some equipment. When we made our own broadcast, she allowed me to direct what happened with the cameras and when to swap between each camera to make the broadcast more professional and higher standard. On a trip to Teesside University we met two journalists who used to be students there, one became a freelance journalist who taught how freelance works and the other now works for LadBible and he was explaining how he got the job there and what it's like working for a well-known media company.
On another trip to Tyneside Cinema, we created our own short film trailer and the people who work there have real experience when it comes to working on the set of a film or TV show. They gave me a real look at how a set works as well as a cast and crew. This trip also gave me experience into directory work and how challenging it can be whilst on set to keep everyone under control as well as make sure everything runs efficiently.
A part from trips, I have done some work within college or been part of extra work that I was told about through college. In September we were told that the drama students were going to be doing a performance for Halloween in Sunderland and we were asked if some students would go down on a Thursday afternoon to film their rehearsals. After about 5 or 6 weeks of filming their rehearsals, me and a small group of people went to Sunderland to film their final performance during a parade that took place for Halloween. After filming we then had to edit all of the footage and send it to the drama department so they could see their performance and see how they have improved. Working with drama students is interesting being a media student as you could be working with people that could be actors/actresses in the future and it gives you experience on what it is like to work with people who are aiming to play characters for their career.
Overall, these people that I have met and worked with have given me enough experience to feel confident with myself and my abilities within media and will feel more comfortable at uni working amongst other film students who might not have as much experience which means I will be able to help other people reach a higher standard of production work. All of the skills and techniques that these people have taught me, I have tried to use in my own work to show that I have learned something and am eager to test new skills and abilities within my own productions, anything I have not used yet I will aim to try and use and progress with during my years at university.
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Dan Parkes - Sophisticated CV
Daniel Parkes
157 Victoria Road, NE33 4LR
dan.parkes08@gmail.com/07494 475927
Personal Profile
I am an aspiring student who is aiming to achieve highly within the Media Industry primarily as a Director or Producer within film and TV sector of the industry. I really enjoy the idea of being behind a camera and guiding groups of people to push past their limits and work as hard as the can to create something that we can all be proud of when we finish.
I consider myself to be very creative, passionate and determined when it comes to film and TV, this is because I find them to be great distractions from the real world and could be classed as an "escape" from their problems. I want to be a person who creates these escapes and inspire people to be more than themselves and become an influence on the future generations.
I like to keep myself busy and I know that working on a set can be one of the busiest jobs in the modern world. This is because the Media Industry is one of the worlds fastest paced careers in the world as you might be working on more than one project at a time and you always have to be ready and prepped for your responsibility. I feel like I'd fit into this industry as I like to be busy and have something to do and working on a film would be my first choice on doing so.
I am aiming to start University in September to further my knowledge within film and TV production with the hope that it leads to a job within the industry when I complete my studies.
Employment History
15th July 2019 - 16th August 2019
Administrator
Leica BioSystems
As a temporary administrator, I was in-charge of making sure that all of the files in my department TCP (Tissue Culture Processing) were organised but, I had many other responsibilities such as:
- Scanning and archiving old documents
- Logging the documents into the data bank
- Assisting the lab workers
- Placing anti-bodies into storage
- Moving the antibodies from storage into stock
- Taking used equipment to the secured bins
Qualifications
Whitburn Church Academy of England
September 2012 - July 2017
- English Language - 5
- English Literature - 5
- Mathematics - 2
- Biology - D
- Chemistry - D
- Physics - D
- Media Studies - D
- Geography - E
- ICT - E
- RE - B
Sunderland College Bede Campus
September 2017 - June - 2020
Creative Media Production Level 3 Year 1 - N/A
Creative Media Production Level 3 Year 2 - Awaiting results
GCSE Maths - Awaiting results
Skills & Abilities
Within media, I believe that I have exceptional leadership and teamwork skills as well as the ability to be able to work on my own if necessary. I also have decent editing and Photoshop skills, the software I use is the Adobe Creative Suite to make my own projects and content within media but, I believe that with more practice, time and commitment I can really improve my editing abilities to meet industry standard.
Hobbies and Interests
When I'm nit doing media work, I have many hobbies and interests that keep me interested and intrigued with many possibilities in the future, my hobbies and interests are:
- Guitar
- Archery
- Films and TV
- Comic Books
- Photography
- Filming and Editing (for YouTube)
- Gaming
- Cycling
Dan Parkes - Show Reel
My Produced Work
1. Lightsaber Visual FX
In Level 2 (2017-2018) we learned how to do some new visual FX that they use in many films from flying to the lightsaber. We learned how tedious it can be for professional editors to create a light up blade that moves very quick and make it look effortless. We were unaware that you have to go frame-by-frame with a mask over a stick and moving it into the right position for the full length of the video, once you've done that you can add any colour to mask to get the famous glow of the Kyber crystals which create the famous weapon. I decided to make it red as this is my favourite colour.
Following the lightsaber we moved onto creating the split-screen effect which is where you have the same person on the screen at the same time but they do different things like the film Legend starring Tom Hardy when he played the Kray twins. We used two people standing opposite places and recorded them reacting and then swapped the people around and had them repeat the previous action then edited them together.
3. Unsolved (Short Film)
At the end of my first year I released my first ever short movie with a small group of friends which we called Unsolved. It was about a cop who gets killed whilst undercover and his partner goes bad-cop and seeks revenge against the people who killed his friend. This was my first real experience with editing footage and sound into a short movie.
4. Harton & Westoe Boxing Club
Last year we were asked to create a promotional video for a local boxing club as one of our college units. We were asked to take photo's and video's of people training as well ourselves using equipment so we could get even more footage and content to include in our promotional videos.
5. Imagine (Fan Video)
At the start of my last year of college, we were asked to make a small video about anything we wanted so, I decided to make a music video for the famous song Imagine but covered by a Swedish Musician. I wanted to make it more emotional by making it about humanity and how we should cherish everyone we know and what we have in this life and not take things for granted.
6. Coin Toss
With a training lecturer, we were taught various new camera techniques and editing techniques. After learning these techniques we were asked to recreate a famous film scene including a coin toss and we tried to edit it to make it an exact recreation of the scene, I added a black and white filter to make the scene more tense as well as some more tense music.
Just before Christmas we took a trip to Sunderland University to work in the film and TV studios where we created a fake news report about a footballer being signed to Sunderland, when asked what roles we wanted to take up, I was very eager to take the role of Director as it is the job I would like to be when I look for work within the Media Industry.
For one of our exams in our final year, we had to create a small dramatic video with specific specifications to make the video worthy of reaching the goal of the exam requirements. I decided to make my drama video on the feud between the media and photography department at college over the studio and how annoying it can be for the media department.
As another trip with college, we went to Tyneside cinema to create our own fictional short film trailer. My group made a spoof trailer for a film called "Nose"feratu based off the original vampire horror film Nosferatu. I was the director of this small group, I was in-charge of positioning everyone in the correct place, lighting, costumes etc and it was successful for only getting a few hours to plan, record and edit all together before the deadline.
1. Happy Town
Just like Noseferatu, I helped make another short film trailer based off the classic movie "The Wicker Man" it was called "Happy Town" I did the narration and also acted in this video as many characters from a local pub goer to a cult member. This was my first real experience on working on a small movie set.
2. Four of a Kind
Me and a small group of our friends decided to enter a small film festival competition (which might not happen) we came up with the idea to make the film about a poker game that gets heated and ends with a fatal injury (not real) and we never got to film the rest which was a shame but it still turned out alright.
3. Daniel, You Have Failed This City?
I bought myself a bow and I have a green hoodie and I really wanted to test it out in a video to see how we could make it look (the arrows weren't real) it was a small spoof on the TV show Arrow from 2012.
4. Halloween Performance 2019
The drama department at college did a performance in Sunderland for a Halloween parade, we were asked to record the rehearsals as well as go to the final performance in the middle of Sunderland and then edit all of the footage together to send back to the drama department to use in their work.
5. Cereal Killer: Spoiled Milk
One of our main units this year was to create a longer short film than last year, my friend made his film a sequel to a film he created last year but wanted to add more drama and test new editing effects and styles to make his film more realistic and entertaining to the audience. I played a few characters and tried my best to make it believable for the audience.
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