Prophecy Media

The video below shows the highlights of my professional practice and experiences during level 3.

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The module learning outcomes for 364MC outlines that I must be able to demonstrate advanced research skills create a viable and relevant location for my work within the market place. I must also have shown that I can independently plan organise and manage my own professional practice. I must also have resolved the finish of my work to a professional standard. I believe I have demonstrated attentiveness towards gaining appropriate experiences in my community of practise of which outcomes have proven to be viable in the market place. Throughout the experience I have shown excellent independent study and organisation of professional projects, many of which were valuable experiences which overall I think attended positively to the client’s needs.

Overall I feel this module has been successful in encouraging my development into an established media student. The experiences I have gained have been invaluable. I feel that my greatest strength I can take away from this module is being able to introduce myself to clients involved in the media industry and maintain a professional existing relationship with them.

I feel that the experience in university as a whole has helped developed my key strengths as well as teaching me something new. I understand that my final project is not a basis for getting me noticed by higher media producers, and I must gain the relevant experience to provide evidence for the skills that make me unique in comparison to the 25,000 media graduates each year.

The skills i aimed to have achieved by the end of the module were highlighted in my skills audit. In the very near future i will hope to graduate with a bachelors degree in media production at a 2:1. I felt ths year has been very intense yet it taught me so much more than my previous years at university, the module has been very rewarding.

The skills i would have to achieve towards my career as a visual content producer are:

1) Being able to direct production personal- i feel i have met this mainly through taking part in my peers projects for FMP, Hangover and the S7even experience. These events allowed me to take creative control and liase with all crew members.

1) Ability to understand and deliver the clients needs -  Azgar Ali local restaurant owner of indiana was very pleased with the outcome and offered me further project opportunities. Along with all my other satisfied clients and projects i can now look faward to starting upcoming projects.

3) learning how to get funding – i learnt to offer my services in order to gain some funding, i.e autophix where the mananger kindly donated £150 for my work towards my final project as he saw potential from the outcome of the leaflet. One thing he pointed out is the leaflet was commercial and appealing to his customers.

4) Independatly plan, conduct and edit media productions – I gained this skill which i feel is vital to my whole 3rd year experince and makes it different from previous years, from taking part in the module itself. I learnt which community of interest i should go into and researched what would apeal to these audiences, i felt it came natural to me on the days of filming. I was able to independantly organise the crew, production processes, budget and visual content and give the final opinnon on editing. majority of the editing i conducted myself using the skills i learned from the Advanced editing module.

5) Use of and new and useful technologies and editing suites – The most useful camera i have used is the cannon 5D MKII, because the camera was small and agile to get into smaller crowed places and can work in low light i.e inside a nightclub. I used Premier Pro and and final cut pro inorder to achive my desired outcome i full i am now fully efficient in both and flexible to work with other suites.

I was able to manage my work load effectively between part time employment, large scale media productions and academic work.  I have developed my knowledge and use of technical equipment and new equipment. The biggest accomplishment i have made from this module is my ability to generate projects indpendantly and ensure the smooth running in achieving the desired outcome. My logo had been distibuted to a wider populaton from taking part in promotional work for the organisations, its best benifit is i am also advertising my own buisness for free. And with this recognition I can now look forward to taking part in many more freelance opportunities and also develop my expertise for directing. Throughout my final year at Coventry University I have been consistently involved in productions which required my editing skills to be precise and of a high standard. Editing issues which I had experienced along the way was a huge learning experience, something which I was able to correct.

As most freelance contracts tend to be temporary I will have to constantly be looking for work so I will need to create opportunities in order to sustain a living as a freelance producer. I hope that by creating enough of contact base I will be able to conceptualise many exciting and contemporary ideas and push them for production. I must be constantly developing my attributes as a media professional in order to become more employable. The experience in total has given me a valuable insight into how busy production processes are in the reality of the working world in comparison to conducting small scale university projects. This has prepared and reassured me for the role I hope to gain entry to after graduation.

Whilst  working on a montage of beautiful things  in 360Mc last year, I was able to develop concepts and ideas by capturing images and film and adding sound.  I have developed many small scale productions by booking out equipment and manipulating various pre and post production techniques. I feel these small scale projects have counted towards my professional experiences. During the times when I have small gaps in my timetable I have actively conceptualised and produced small projects alone. I feel they have taught me valuable production skills and editing techniques.

1) ‘Night Sky’ -  The technique employed was a time lapse. It enabled me to capture a picture every 5second  interval. My favourite piece of equipment for these small scale projects is a cannon 5D as it is small and cheap but importantly is fully manual so you can manage every aspect of the composure.  This technique was specifically learnt from my own research from youtube which has allowed me to develop my skills into evidence for professional experiences.

2) ‘A Bettles life’ – This short clip was a great novelty idea and really captures the audience. It is engaging throughout and i am always wondering what is that bug going to get up to next. It is commical at times and leaves and impression on the audience. These sort of charcteristics involved in production i have found to recieve alot of good feedback from peers who have viewed some of my clips. I belive the ‘novelty’ factor, emphasises the film is unusual and can be pushed by popular culture. By using these principles from which i have learnt doing small film productions, i can implement these into making bigger and better productions which have the potential and power to grip mass audiences.