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A-Levels: Creative Media BTEC - 9/24-6/26

This A-level course, at Aquinas College in Stockport, gets us to undertake simulated professional briefs with new groups for each project. We create logs of our research, idea development and creative decisions, which helps me critically evaluate my work and behaviour. By being assigned emulated industry roles, we familiarise ourselves with the responsibilities of different film crew members, and create industry-standard documents. We shoot as a group before editing individually using Adobe Premiere Pro. The briefs given throughout the course are a product advertisement (see above right), short film drama (see below right - we won 5 awards for this project, including for my directing and cinematography), magazine shows with factual features, and a music video. My past roles include producer, camera operator, director, and project manager. This course has deepened my understanding of how the screen industries operate and how to build relationships with other creatives when producing art together.

EPQ - 10/24-3/25

For my Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), I created a 27-minute documentary on the history of Buxton, where I live, and how the town's famous waters have shaped it into what it is today. I attended meetings with local organisations, analysed over 40 sources, including books, journal articles and websites, conducted multiple interviews and had private tours of multiple locations. Over 4.5 hours of footage was filmed, then edited into the final piece using Premiere Pro: I selected the best takes, added my own B-roll, inserted interview segments and added music relevant to the era discussed in the dialogue. This process developed my confidence in reaching out to organisations, and improved my scriptwriting, editing, time management, location filming and presenting skills.

I aim to work with local heritage organisations to distribute the film to residents and tourists.

YouTube - 9/15-Present

I have created videos for YouTube for over 10 years, and have recently become much more dedicated to it than I ever have before. I have found that this is a really fun and effective way of developing my filmmaking skills outside of my college course, and I get to delve into subjects not covered my the course. I have many different active series, including music, comedy, interviews, games, podcasts and travel. The video podcasts are also available on Spotify.

To the left are three of the videos that I am most proud of.

AQTV: Student TV Station - 9/24-6/26

AQTV is one of Aquinas College's media societies, where we have previously filmed trivia episodes, quizzing students around the college, and are now expanding to also include video podcasts, in collaboration with the college podcasting society.

On the projects, I have been the main researcher, editor and live vision mixer (for the podcasts - see right)

Creative Mentoring Project - 6/25

3 day course, run by Aquinas College, with mentoring from students from the University of Salford.

Created in partnership with students from Salford University

Day 2 - Filmed at our college (I was the director and one of the camera operators); I then edited all the footage into the video on the left, before the presentation the next day. The choice of the song Iron Sky, by Paolo Nutini was very purposeful, as it features a spoken section from the 1940 film The Great Dictator, which includes the line "You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful" which is very appropriate to the brief.

Day 3 - Created a presentation, which included the video, to explain our creation and development process to the other two groups (with different briefs, about fashion and documentaries) and a small group of college arts staff

- Freelance Work -

Helen Rutter - 6/25

The award winning children's author reached out to me to edit her footage into an engaging promotional video for her books, aimed at young children. She then used this video to show the schoolchildren her books before she went there herself.

FuseTV - 9/25

University of Manchester's student television station commissioned me to edit three episodes of their Jenga gameshow called Blockheads. This is a project that I worked particularly hard on, and therefore really helped my proficiency in working in Premiere Pro, as well as working with a client - I worked with the director to make revisions before the final versions were uploaded. Below is the final timeline of all 3 episodes.

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