Sophie Gibson Media Year 2 Progression

  Networking Experience Subject:    Q&A with Leo Pearlman in ‘The Looking Glass’, Sunderland. 8 th  October 2021. Who was it with?   Leo Pearlman, a film producer. He has produced films such as the One direction movies, Cinderella, Gavin and Stacy  etc. He fell into the role more than working up to it, mentioning he actually had a Law degree and hadn’t really been involved in film/media subjects in his education.    He is a founder of the company ‘Fulwell 73’ which has produced big TV shows such as ‘ The Late Late show ’ and worked with artists like Harry Styles and Bruno Mars. They have found success in both the UK and US. The company has offices in Sunderland, London and Los Angeles. The company was also founded by James Corden, which massively helped on expanding the company to the US.    What did you learn?   I wasn’t aware of the company Fulwell73 before going to this talk but it has inspired me to find out more about the c...

  Include the Title of the event, the date, and the venue   BBC Apprenticeships talk with David Longworth. Teams call on 6/12/21   Who was it with?   The talk was with David Longworth, a representation from the BBC. He is involved in recruiting and training new starters in the BBC.  He went from being a runner, to a researcher and then became involved in production but enjoyed training new recruits and so is currently in this position. He worked his way up through the BBC and now spends some of his time talking so potential new recruits such as college and university students- giving them advice on how best to be involved with the BBC. He explains things such as job positions and what is involved as well as application processes.    What did you learn?   I learned about new opportunities that the BBC had to offer to people straight from education. He also showed us that the BBC is constantly recruiting all over the country over many different area...

 This is a video I put together from the Christmas markets at Sunderland College, Bede Campus on 8/12/21. There were stalls, raffles, live music all of which I have captured some footage of in the video and edited with a popular Christmas song. A small group of us went out filming using DSLR cameras and I was able to use a tripod alongside this. This was then edited using Adobe Premiere Pro. 

 This is the first of my finished edits for the 'Lights out' Halloween parade in Sunderland that took place on 29/10/2021. This video uses music that would be classed as copyrighted. I felt like this was the best song to do the edit to and I can use it as part of a portfolio rather than making money from it. In the video, I use multiple skills that I have learned in first year such as match on beat, multiple transitions, slow motion etc. I believe I'm learning how to use Premiere Pro in a professional way as I can navigate it with ease now. I also used Adobe Audition on this project to create the soundtrack. I liked the song but the intro and first verse were too long and so I cut the intro and half of the first verse in a way that sounded quite seamless. My previous knowledge of music (at GCSE level) allowed me to re-listen to the song and work out exactly where the vocals and new bars should come in, and used this in my own version of the song. 

Outside of college, I have been doing several side projects for my dad's band 'The Diamond Dogs' mainly revolving around Photoshop. This has included the creation of a new Facebook Cover Photo and updated gig posters that are now being distributed to their venues with information about upcoming performances.  Cover Photo For this project, I was asked to create a cover photo using one photo of the band. The band said that they would like it to be similar to an album cover by 'The Ramones'. Upon their request, some wording was also removed from one of the band members' shirts and text with the title of their band was added.  I created multiple products in order to give the band a variety of pictures to choose from.  Inspiration: Original Image: Products made: Cover photo currently in use on their Facebook page: Some issues did crop up during this project, such as the limited space in Facebooks cover photo and so I couldn't make the product exactly the same as ...