16th January

Evaluation

Over the first semester iv found that i have many weaknesses and strengths. The main weaknesses being my timekeeping, my people skills and my ability to work within a team. The main strengths being my ability to get my ideas across and my leadership abilitys (altough i think i may be a little overpowering).

My people skills have deffinitly improved alot over the first semester, mostly due to vox pops. Having to go out and talk to people i dont know has helped my confidence and my ability to talk to people. I think although i have leadership qualitys they may be a little to overbearing and i take to much charge over things, not really taking in other peoples input and being to bossy, this is somethign i will have to work on if i expect to be able to work in the media industry, especially if i am not the team leader as this could cause serious conflicts.

My timekeeping although having improoved is still quite poor, this needs to be worked on and i plan to work on this by setting strict deadlines for myself.

I feel this course is deffinitly helping to better me as a person and helping me become more confident in myself.

28th December

My Role

My roles in the radio show as editor and presenter were both quite demanding and i feel i might have taken over a little bit, and i think i might have become quite bossy and taken over the project a little to much. I was mostly bossy over scripts, which were being written by kate, if i didnt like the script i would change it or re write it completly and i feel maybe i should have held back from doing this more than i did. I think my presenting was good and i managed to keep my voice from sounding to boring but the editing was a slightly harder job, with awkward interviewees, terrible background noise and me getting very tired of hearing the same thing over and over and over again very quickly. As an editor i will have to learn to overcome these things and i think alot of it has to do with me working on my patience.

19th december

BBFC

The BBFC is an organisation dedicated to classifying films to help the public make appropriate 

viewing decisions for themselves and those in there care.

BBFC classifications

 

Universal - Suitable for all.

 Parental Guidance - General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.

 

Suitable for 12 years and over - No-one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult.

Suitable only for 15 years and over.

   

Suitable only for adults - No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video.

The BBFC are an independent company and are not influenced by the government. Although the BBFC classify films local councils have the power to change the classifications at there discretion.

9th december

The Pitch

This week i had to pitch for a radio show with my group, our show is a pilot for a series about sleep disorders. We are doing the pilot on insomnia as we feel this is a very common sleep disorder which hasn't had that much media coverage, we are hoping this will draw in more listeners. For the pitch i am talking about the structure of the show, here is the powerpoint presentation i gave:

My roles within our team when we actually make the show are as both editor and main presenter, I expect to be working quite hard, especially with the editing, this will probably take up the bulk of the time that I am working on the show, when presenting I am going to remember to vary my voice as I can sometimes become quite monotonous and boring vocally when reading scripts.

5th december

Future jobs?

There are several jobs that I would be interested in looking into in the future, this entry im going to talk a little about them and why they interest me.

 Radio Actor

 Having enjoyed playing the role of Arthur dent in our version of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy it has definitely sparked an interest in voice acting within me. I feel I would be good at it as I am confident in following a directors orders and I enjoy interpreting characters and situations in my own way!

 

Radio Show Editor

 I would enjoy doing this but I think I would have to work on my time keeping to be able to work well to strict deadlines, I guess that’s something I will learn with this course. I enjoy editing quite a bit and I work well when I have a producer directing me, the long hours would put me off a bit though, I don’t know if I have the stamina or patience to stay up all night fine editing a show for the next day, I guess it would just be something I would have to live with.

 

Set Designer

 I really enjoy creating sets and then seeing them on film or in a picture, it gives me a real sense of achieving something if a set I created looks good and it makes staying up until 3 in the morning creating a prop or running around at the last minute looking for a chair or a toy gun all worth it. Before I could become a set designer I would probably have to work building sets, this would involve a lot of hard work and long hours for little money.

 

I hope to gain plenty of experience in these fields over my time in this course and I hope this will help me make a decision as to which I would like to do, if any at all, who knows I might change my mind completely! 

My first blog

Hello blogging world!

My name is Simon Coleman and i am a Broadcast media student.

I have set up this blog to talk about the roles within the media industry and to reflect upon the roles i have takein in projects.

So far i have taken the role of producer on a radio prjoect with two other people, the radio show we are going to try and create is a pilot in a series of documentaries on sleep disorders (the pilot being about insomnia). I have also taken the role as editor editing vox pops, the voice of arthur dent in a version of hitchikers guide to the galaxy and as a soundscape composer creating a jungle soundscape.

I also have experience in some areas of the media outside of university. These incule semi proffesional photography [click here] and website design/administration [click here]

I will be updating this blog as regularly as possible so please do come back and read more :)