Preperation for Career Development Material

To understand how much preparation goes into Personal Career Development Material for the media industry, I’ll have to research into how someone finds out what is available in the industry and what education and training is required to be accepted at that level of work in the industry.
One of the first items that are important for Personal Career Development is to find out what education and/or training is required, in order to be considered for a job in the media industry. There are many different qualifications that can lead on to a job, a few are undergraduate degrees which can lead into the media industry, which themselves require at least 2 A-Levels and a BTEC National Diploma. A Film Production degree at university level allows for both the qualification and the necessary experience for working in film, whether its screenwriting, director, cinematographer etc these can be worked on for a student to specialise in for their perspective job in the media industry.
Having the right skills is also important for applying for a job in the media industry; certain positions require the right skills in order to be considered for employment. This works with some courses at University ask for you to specialise in one area of the film crew, going for this one area works for the person’s advantage for when applying to work. Some of these skills can consist of personal skills i.e. working in team, this doesn’t necessarily mean production work but it does help, generally working in team can build respect and a good working relationship, having these sorts of skills will make working on production easier by having that respect if you were director for example. Technological skills like being able to work with cameras, lights and even editing software are paramount if you want to have a job in the film industry, most of this would have to come from experience but it initially can be taught how to use the equipment/software. This is probably one of the biggest requirements for applying for work in the industry and having some knowledge and experience, whether a employment opportunity comes along, would make you stand out among the other applicants for the highly contested job.
In order to know what is available in the media industry, there are sources of information that help with this, examples of this include ‘Runners’ Network’, a website set up for people looking for work experience on production for this particular site its running work. Being a runner gives you first hand experience what happens on a professional level, knowledge can be picked up from seeing what happens or speaking to people on what they do. Another source of information, which can help for finding the right course for the qualification you need, is Skillset; it’s a Sector Skills Council that allows people to search what they are looking to do and finds the right course they should apply for, with appropriate links and qualification requirements for the course.
In conclusion there are many different ways to advance your Personal Career Development Material from finding a course that would give the right qualifications, experience with working with certain equipment and in a team which will give you an advantage over other hopefuls and having actual work experience in a professional production. All these factors are important for having the right material for your career development.

More information about the short films

My website which I've also made during my time at Totton College as part of one of the units, one of pages on the website has a list of all the films I've made along with seperate pages going into detail on on how it was made: the different techniques used, problems we had during production and what was leanred overall.

Here's the link to the filmography page on the website: http://totton.org/harry/5th.html

Short Films made in College

Brassic - Short Film Project



Ted - Horror Project

This was the first major project at college and was nominated for 'Best Short Film (Fiction)' at the Totton College Multi-Media Awards.





The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Music Video Project



And for a bonus my cut of the practice music video for Margarine Rock



Here are some more short films I've worked on in college





This short film was T. David Bloomer which I helped out on, this was nominated for 2 Totton College Multi-Media Awards including Best Short Film (Fiction) and won 'Best Director' for Mr Bloomer



These next two films were entered into different film challenges. The first 'City Hospital' was part of the Totton College 48 Hour Film Challenge. The challenge was to create a 2-5 minute film with a certain genre, Medical Drama, a certain prop, a leotard, and a certain line, 'Nurse, hand me the spactula'. It won first prize.



The second was for the Hampshire Inter-College Film Challenge to make a mockumentary called 'In The Moment'. This one won 'Best Dialogue'

My CV

Harry Mabbett
12 Meredith Gardens, Totton, Hampshire
SO40 8SQ
Tel: 02380364264 Mob: 07795236312
Email: harrmabb316@hotmail.co.uk

Education

2008 – 2010 - Totton College

BTEC National Diploma Media Production (TV & Film)
A-Level Film Studies
AS-Level Classical Civilisation

2003 – 2008 – Mountbatten School

10 GCSEs: 2 ‘A’ Grades, 6 ‘B’ Grades (including Maths and English)

Achievements

• At the annual Totton College Multi-Media Awards in July 2009, I was nominated for two awards: Achievement in Academic Writing and Best Short Film (Fiction), in which two films I worked on got nominated.
• During July 2009, my group won first prize at the 48 Hour Film Challenge, the challenge was for a Medical Drama with the line ‘Nurse, hand me the spatula’ and the prop of a leotard. We have since been producing follow ups
• In September 2009 my group and I entered a film in the inter-college film challenge, the challenge was to produce a two minute ‘mockumentary’ called ‘In The Moment’. Our production won ‘Best Dialogue’.

Interests

Film: Making, analysing and watching films. Going to the cinema with friends and discussing the films we watch.
Television: Watching drama, comedies and documentaries, also for analysing and discussion with friends.
New Media: Using the Internet for research and to explore relevant documents, also for networking. Have own website to keep track of portfolio.
Literature: Books on film theory and philosophy in popular culture, particularly Film and TV

Experience

Clerical Assistant
Maritime & Coastguard Agency April 2007
• Vehicular Administration
• Equipment Organisation