Task 1 Research
Task A
Factual TV Jobs:
Progression Runner
Production runners are people who manage all the physical and small chores of a production team, they act as a kind of vain system for the team, they take and collecting the paper work and distribute it around to the office crew. They also take breakfast and lunch orders from the staff, answer phone calls, file paper work, buy stationary, and even sometimes book travel and accommodation for people who need to travel. Runners is usually considered to be a freelance job.
As said in the paragraph above, the qualifications and experience needed for a progression runner is to be social among other office workers and to manage their work for them in terms of getting it around the place, and, for example, to the post office.
Skills required for this job are to be efficient and quick to work when asked too, whilst staying calm and doing it under pressure. Another is being able to multi-task when different people ask you to different things at the same time.
Production runners often work with production coordinators and line producers in the production team. But being a runner can also lead to either one of those jobs. Such as the production coordinator, which are people who literally run the production office, they set up the office, organising the equipment, supplies and staff. Or a line producer, who are the main people in a team solely who manage a production. hiring the crew, managing the money and making sure the filming is done safely, creatively, on budget and on time.
Assistant Editor
An editor is a person who puts together the film with the images footage and audio from the filming set. They work on multiple different shots taken from different parts of the film itself, as the films are sometimes not shot in order, so they take some parts of the film and edit them bit by bit and then put it all together to receive the outcome of a film.
The qualifications and experience needed to become an editor is BA in field related to film or broadcasting, such as communications. Also, it would be good to have a course cinematography or video editing. As an assistant editor, you would work as an understudy to an editor and they would give you smaller part jobs to do. As an assistant editor you might not need the qualification but rather experience in editing software.
For an assistant editor, the skills you need are to be good at communication between production, camera and so on. It is also important to know how to tackle any technical problems.
By taking the job as a post-production runner or assistant editor, or by working on lower budget productions in feature films, eventually it will lead you to becoming an editor of the film production.
Cinematography
The cinematographers are the people who work with the directors to capture the necessary scenes for the particular film that consists of that footage. Wether it would be a documentary for wildlife, or a cooking show, or for a sports show.
The qualifications and experience needed for a cinematographer also require a BA degree, but also the general knowledge of the basics of photography, like the lighting and camera techniques.
A good cinematographer can add a lot of feeling and atmosphere to a movie just by the way that they are shot by using lighting and camera positions and angles. A lot of good cinematographers gain their experience by being very patient and dedicated to their specialist feel to the filming. The cinematographer also has to work with the director to create the correct effect for the film being made.
As a cinematographer, you gain experience by finding which type of production you enjoy doing, this could be feature films, documentaries, new reports, studio films and animations, you can then specialise in this type of cinematography to dedicate your time to one particular format and therefor bring a lot experience to the way a film looks.
Task B
Task C
University Courses that I Like:
University Centre Grimsby
GAME DESIGN (GAME ART)
I chose this course from this university because i'm interested in video game, especially making the game art in the game play itself.
i chose this university out of all the other choices as it was the only one that i could find that presented to me the learning skills to be able to actually make the game art in the game, rather than the other basic components of making it, like the rendering and coding.
General applications required to enter this uni are the following:
- GCSE's for both Maths and English at grade 4
- a portfolio of work that encompasses both practical and digital design.
- you will also be required to take an interview, to make a judgment taking into account their academic potential and relevant experience
What i will do there:
Year 1:
I will be given all the basic knowledge required into the visual side of the games industry. learning skills in 2D art and level design, as well as the game mechanics, and all the game and character designs as well.
Year 2:
In this year, i'll build on these skills, and actually start on the procedure of creating and finishing polished games. Alongside this, i'll create narrative experiences, as well as 3D assets and levels and character animation to a highly polished degree, whilst gaining an understanding of the theory behind fun and games.
Year 3:
In the final year, i'll bring together all the skills i'v developed in the past years together into making my Final Major Project, which will be to create a fully featured game to sell my skills to a wider gaming industry.
As well as completing a dissertation and creating an online portfolio to show off my skills and work created in the past years.
Location:
This university is located pretty far away from where i live in Cambridge, so i plan to find accommodation in the area of that university.
i couldn't find any information if the university itself provides such said accommodation, so i decided to look around for hotels or anything else around the area of the university. i found a couple, all of which were in walking distance of the uni, so i figured that i would make do with this for the future.
The description also stated a bunch of other features and tasks that would be required when doing the job, all of which I wasn't really keen on. Small tasks, like having the skills to make good quality infographics, and in typography. All of which I think will be a bit irritating if I took the job, as I wouldn't consider myself to be good at these tasks, but I think I would make do with it to make progress for the other tasks that I would enjoy more so.
Animator
Kennington Creative Group
https://www.mandy.com/uk/job/1428064/animator
I liked the look of this job mainly because the description that it presented to me was fairly simple and strait forward. Also, it had an extremely good pay rate.
But one major flaw about this job application was that it wasn't exactly the roll of an animator that i was looking for. For this, i had to work well in the adobe program After Effects, which focuses more on animation for VFX, and altering the visuals for an already made film and its footage. I was looking more towards working on the abode Animate program, where i actually hand draw the each of the frames for the film instead.
Online Courses
Any possible courses that i could look for online to improve on my animation skills, whilst continuing to work on the other subjects above, in University and job rolls.
cg spectrum
After making a basic search on the internet, I came across this online tutoring website, that, after I looked around on for a bit, realised that I really liked the look of it. For all the expects behind it, as well as the courses that it presents to me, which provides a multitude of different courses for both 2D and 3D animation which I found extremely useful.
I also really liked the basic layout of the website itself, how its all simple to me and makes it easier to get around and find the courses that I'm looking for and the other things it presents. Like how it gives you the opportunities to be mentored by professionals for most of the visual medias you know, films and video games, all of which they worked on the VFX, or animation for, and I can learn from, all of which I find extremely useful.
Well done Max. Can you link this blog to you hub?
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