Places of Employment

Over the summer, I was able to get myself working for three different companies, one of which offered me a chance to help with a film festival. Wanting to specialise in motion graphics and visual effects, two of the companies offered that specifically. Here are the companies I worked for:

Empire Design

• Feature Film advertising company specializing in trailer and poster creation. 
• Located in Oxford Circus, Queen Anne Street
• 9 days of work experience as Junior MGFX artist

 Barnes Film Academy

• Young filmmakers course running for one week at a time
• Held three times a year
• 7 days work experience as A.D, Director Of Photography, Motion Graphics

Barnes Film Festival 

• First film festival in west london aimed at young filmmakers
• Lasted 3 days, held primarily at The Wetlands Centre
• 2 weeks work experience creating 1 minute promotional animation

Greenwich University

• Our current university
• Tasked with the creation of the new Film and TV ident
• 2 weeks work experience working closely with Julie Watkins to follow the design breif

This is a very brief outline of the companies I worked with. For all but Barnes Film Academy, I have pieces of work to show for. Following this post will be sections going into detail for each four companies, how they are run, what I was tasked with doing and what were the main benefits of each.

Introduction

Hello, I’m Rory and welcome to my work experience blog. As of this point, I am rather torn between wanting to be a director or motion graphics artist. Over the summer, I managed to get three jobs at different workplaces. The main workplace was Empire Design, a leading worldwide film advertisement design agency. I also worked with Barnes Film Academy and Festival, a film-making short course aimed at young filmmakers. Finally, the University of Greenwich asked me to make their official Film and TV ident which took me around a month to finish completely. I feel that this was a good mix for me, as well as creating a short film with two close friends of mine, I was able to get a good mix of environments I may be wanting to work in.