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So You Want To Work in TV Audio or Radio?

By Shu ⋅ April 15, 2013 ⋅ 2 comments

Do you work in audio in TV or radio or interested in pursuing that line of work in the media? Then you may be interested in the work of Sound Women, a network of over 900 inspirational women working in audio. If you’re male stay tuned – there are useful tips for you too! [...]

‘Liberating’ Leftover Food Funded My First Runner’s Job!

By Shu ⋅ April 30, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

Staying on the subject of finding work as a post production runner, this account from an editor on how he got his first break as a runner in post production. Paul Lumsden broke into the business and found his niche as an editor without the benefit of useful contacts or a monied family to cushion those early years of low pay. [...]

How to get a foot in the door of TV Camera work

By Shu ⋅ January 30, 2012 ⋅ One comment

So you want to be a TV cameraperson? Then what you need is advice from a professional camera operator with a long track record in television. Colin Rogal is a very experienced and successful TV cameraman who has worked on many excellent TV shows, from C4 Dispatches to BBC’s Horizon, from drama and documentary to [...]

Looking for contacts in TV Post Production?

By Shu ⋅ November 16, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Then you could do worse than check out this new report, featured in Televisual, on the UK’s post production sector: http://www.televisual.com/read-reports-surveys/13/Facilities-50-2011.html You may not want to plough through the whole report (but then again why not – information is power and it would help you to know what is happening in the market as [...]

Does a Sound Technician in TV need a Degree?

By wanttoworkintelevision ⋅ 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 [...]

So You Want to be a Television Camera Operator? Part 3 The Female Angle

By wanttoworkintelevision ⋅ August 8, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

So what does a television camera operator do and how do you get to become one? It is still quite a male-dominated area of television – mainly because lugging cameras around can be back-breaking (and I meant that literally – I know several cameraman with bad backs as a result of their work but they started work in the days before Health [...]

So You Want to be a Television Camera Operator? Part 2 From One Who Knows!

By wanttoworkintelevision ⋅ August 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

So you want to be a television camera person. So did Jeremy Hoare who now has very many years’ experience of operating a camera behind him, but he’d like us to know that if you want to be good there’s more to it that simply ‘operating’ a camera. Do you have vision, an eye for [...]

So You Want to be a Television Camera Operator? Part One

By wanttoworkintelevision ⋅ July 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

So you want to be a television camera person. It is, of course, a crucial role in television. No camera, no pictures, no television! Our next few articles will be covering the role of a camera operator in TV and we’ll hear from both ends of the age spectrum. Firstly we’ll feature someone who has [...]

So You Want to be a TV Editor?

By wanttoworkintelevision ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ One comment

…Then you need to listen up to Mark Sangster, Director and Editor at Editworks, a post production company with a base in London and Glasgow. This is a man who understand edit suites and the role of an editor and his many years of experience qualifies him as a master of much more than the [...]

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