Summer placements (continued...)

After finishing my whole week at Lime pictures, I asked at the produciton office there on my last day to check if any further placement were available thorughout the summer, but there were no more vacancies. I was keen to go back and do another placement as i knew this would look far better on my CV.

A couple of week later towards the end of July, I spoke to a friend who has worked at Lime in the deisgn department, who gave my name and number the the head set dresser. Thankfully I received a text days later asking me to pop in for some more work expeirence, this time in design! A week or so later I began working at Lime as a design runner and stagehand / freelance design, which I found out was paid work. This was the best jobh I've had. Loved every minute of it and I met a lot of new poeple in the design department who helped me gain a lot of experience dressing sets and helping out with the creation of scenes for the Hollyoaks drama.

My fourth placement of the summer came when a friend on the course approached me with the chance  to work as a camera assiastant at CREAMFIELD FESTIVAL. I took up this opportunity straight away and camped at the festival for a whole weekend at the end of august. Whilst I was there I carried out loads of smalls jobs such as deliverring food and drink to the film crew from different base camps, as well as assistaning with filming on stage such as cable managing!

Summer 13' Work placements - Action packed summer!

During the summer break between second and final year of the MPS course I lined myself up with a few work placements to add to my CV for when I graduate next year. One placement was set up the university and my course and the other three I found in my own time. Being on easch placement allowed me to get a good feel of how people work in the media industry and I gained quite a bit of experience in a number of different areas.

My first placement was with HURRICANE FILMS, which lasted about 6 weeks. My role was as a production runner which led to me to carrying out small tasks such as helping wityh things in the head office in liverpool city centre, as well as doing my own bit of filming in the city for a project on their online site. I carried on with the internship until I decided to leave mid-July, due to starting further placements in liverpool.

 

After leaving hurricane I started a week placement in LIME PICTURES in liverpool, with the help of an interview set up by my course tutor. At lime  i really enjoyed working as a camera assistant for the majority of the week, whilstm eeting a lot of new people there who were good to work with. I started the week as a 3rd AD (Assistant Director) but then relealised that there wasn't a massive responsiblity or work for me here, as I was ltiterally just shadowing the 3rd AD, which left me with a lot of astanding around watchign the scenes on Hollyoaks. I decided that camera work would have more work for me, so spoke to a camera assistant before carrying on with the cameras for the remainder of the week.

Breakthrough opportunity!

I have just been contacted by a record label in Portugal, offering to make an EP for my track 'Drop' (Techno House). I am absolutely over the moon with getting signed to my first label!

I am currently awaiting the release date, actual EP with remix tracks, and artwork to be sent to me. I can't wait, so happy I have got myself on the ladder to producing house music that is signed to a house label.


Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/tomdaviesliverpool

(Dish Of The Day Records)

Awaken Ibiza!

Today I have confirmed with a student holiday experience 'Awaken Ibiza' that my house night 'GetDown' is now official brand partners with the company, which means that myself and Orlagh (GetDown residents) get to play a DJ set out in summer Ibiza on a party boat. I am absolutely overwhelmed by the oppourtunity! Our aim is to sell as many tickets as we can to help sponsor the experience, and eget as many people on board with the trip as we can! The whole package is £149 which covers boat partys, accomodation, entry in superclubs, pool & beach parties! Here is  our sponsored link for tickets for week 3:

http://www.awakenibiza.com/getdownliverpool

We cannot wait to get out there and playing house music with the Ibiza sunset behind us!

Essay - Transmedia Storytelling

I have just finshed the 3000 word essay on our trandmedia storytelling question. With lookig back at the research wityh used for the presentation I was easily guided however answering the question in 3000 words proved to be very challenging, but good practice!


Question 1 (Our question):

"The internet, social media and other open systems have allowed for user generated content, crowd sourcing and other forms of audience participation to prevail in digital media but how do we translate these features into storytelling experiences, without treading on the toes of the author?"

Myself and Orlagh and our underground house event......

Recently I have taken up the responsibility of running my own underground house music event, based here in Liverpool. It was back in May 2012 when i decided that I wanted to start up my own night, as I am really passionate about the house music scene and wanted to get myself involved with anything that i could. Then i figured, its not that easy getting yourself noticed and making an impact, plus I didnt want to be relying on other peoples events and plans to get myself out there and get on the scene, so I decided to start up an event myself.

As soon as I decided that i was to go ahead with this I asked Orlagh immediately, if she wanted to get invovled and co-found the night. Once i realised she was keen we planned our name, venue, first event, DJ's and prmotional techniques that were going to be associated with our night.

Today, we have just realeased the news for our April event, which will be our 8th event to date, which we are extremely excited about. Our recent poarties have been such a sucess and our most recent one locked out with 240 people crammed into the basement of our venue, The Shipping Forecast.

Here are our most recent posters:

Idea is forming....

We have an idea for our media convergence project. After discussing things today we have a good few ideas to create a plan for the project. This will be based on mine & Orlagh's (the rest of my group) love for music. Hopefully this will create an interesting project.