For many people, it may seem challenging to get paid work in the media industry because of how saturated the industry is. When working for yourself you have to go out and find work across all avenues in order to make a decent living.
Part of this may include client work which involves you finding clientele who will want work producing for them. This could include Promotion videos, montages, short films or even film assessments.
In this case, I had worked for the University of Chester's Social Work Department, as a Technical Assistant. This involved me filming assessed role-plays for students at Bachelors and Masters Level to be submitted to the examiner.
This involved filming alternately in different rooms for around fifteen minutes continuously and setting up the camera for each role-play.
The first time we were filming we came across a few issues such as not having enough batteries which meant we had to pick up more batteries. Also, there wasn't enough storage on the SD card so I needed to get another SD card to finish filming.
Also, one of the clips from the first day had an audio error meaning that the examiner had to be informed that there was a technical error.
However, as each session went by I managed to learn from the mistakes of the first day and was extra prepared. The second time I decided to use my own equipment which had its advantages:
The camera I had was less battery demanding meaning it wouldn't drain as quick. Also, I had two SD Card with bigger capacities than the other cards meaning I was certain I wouldn't run out of space for the raw footage.
This resulted in the next three days of filming running very smoothly which made me feel like I had learned from my mistakes of the first day.
Vanessa Goldsmith from the Department of Social Work even sent us an email stating she liked to see come back potentially lining up more opportunities in the future.
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