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FREE training in Film-Making Skills

By ⋅ April 10, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

With the plethora of costly courses on offer in the media industry it is a pleasure to bring information about a charity which provides young people with free training to develop technical, creative and personal skills through film-making. BoldFace Productions are part of CTVC, an award winning British Media company producing television, radio and new media [...]

Media Internship/Work Placement Up For Grabs in Spain for the Summer!

By ⋅ March 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

How do you fancy a funded work placement/ internship in Seville, Spain?   You’d be working with a creative company in the area of media, web or design. And you’d be in SPAIN for 13 weeks, learning, soaking up the culture, getting experience, with your accommodation paid. Sounds like a great gig to me!! The application deadline [...]

How to Kick Start a Creative New Year

By ⋅ January 4, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Buy a book to kick start a creative new Year! Don’t worry – this isn’t turning into a book review site (tempting though that idea is) but a book can change your life and we want this to be a life-changing year, don’t we? It was a book that made me launch this website. People [...]

HOW MEDIA STUDIES HELPED ME GET WORK IN TV

By ⋅ September 28, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

If you’ve been following this site you’ll know we’ve been debating the value of a degree when trying to get into television and in particular the value of a media studies versus an academic degree.  Vicky Edmonds got in touch to add her voice to the pro-media studies supporters. Here is her story:  “I wanted to work in television [...]

Are you struggling to make a decision about your career?

By ⋅ September 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Are you struggling to make a decision about what to do with your life? Go to uni and study media, or not? Get a job now or continue your education? Stay in the industry you started your working life in, or change course now to something you really want to do? Many people are juggling just [...]

TV Producer Succeeds WITHOUT a Degree!

By ⋅ September 9, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Over the past few articles we’ve been debating the various merits of different types of qualifications if you want to get into a television career. Mostly we debated media degree versus an academic subject. The last post came from Dani, a successful producer who explained why she’s glad she did a media studies degree. But maybe you [...]

Producer speaks up in favour of a Media Studies Degree?

By ⋅ September 8, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

… the continuing saga of what qualifications give you the best chance of establishing a career in television – we will get onto to other subjects again soon, I promise! Media studies degrees are getting a bad press. Many people surveyed (unscientifically by me!) so far within the industry seem to think you are wasting [...]

Does a Sound Technician in TV need a Degree?

By ⋅ August 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sometimes when you find someone has written something really useful, relevant and just what you wanted to say – you may as well steal it!! With the author’s permission, of course…. Jake Knott is a very experienced sound supervisor in TV and he has his own very good blog. He has kindly allowed me to [...]

How to Get a Head Start in the Media while still at College Part 2

By ⋅ August 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

In our last post Jaime Riley wrote about her experience of getting involved in campus television and journalism while at York University studying Linguistics. This is an ideal way to give yourself a head start if you hope to work in the media after your further education. In this second part she offers specific advice to anyone currently embarking on their [...]

How to Get a Head Start in Media while still at College Part 1

By ⋅ August 31, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Jaime Riley is a final year student at The University of York, hoping for a career in television after graduation. She’s been involved in all sorts of media activities whilst at University and has found them to be very useful when applying for jobs and placements. What are you studying at university and why did [...]

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