Cover letter for Lucy

5 Asolando Drive

Browning Street,

London SE17 1EJ

Tel: 0794 7450011

Ms Jenny Smith,

Head of Talent,

Talkback Thames Productions Ltd,

20 - 21 Newman Street,

London W1T 1PG

30th May 2012

Dear Ms Smith,

I hope you are well, I am writing to ask if there are currently any opportunities for runners at Talkback Thames.

I recently graduated from City of Westminster College and have a National Diploma for TV and Film/Creative Media Production. Over the course of my time at college, I was lucky enough to do voluntary work placements at The London MCM Comicon Expo and voluntary work at the Master Card Festival at Southbank. I really enjoyed my work experience and learnt much about conventions and how festivals work and I also picked up some health and safety procedures like what to do in a fire situation and how to keep customers happy.

I am passionate about the TV industry – especially entertainment – and am a massive fan of shows like America's Best Dance Crew and Britain’s Got Talent. I know I have a lot to learn and would consider it a privilege to be employed on one of your productions.

I appreciate that you must have many applicants, but ask you to consider me for any vacancies coming up at Talkback Thames. I am a hard working, honest and reliable good team player and would be very pleased to be given the opportunity to work for your company.

I can be contacted on 0794 7450011 or via email on jordantkwhite@hotmail.co.uk

I look forward to hearing from you shortly.

Kind regards,

Jordan White

Phone hacking survey results

The first questing I asked on the Survey was peoples Gender.
6 People replied saying they were males and 4 people replied saying they were females.

The second question I asked was if people read news papers. 4 people said yes and 4 people said no. The remaining 2 said they read news papers sometimes.

The third question I asked was if people read articles on celebrities. 3 people answered yes, 2 people said no and 5 people said sometimes.

The Fourth question I asked was if people were aware that some reporters get their information illegally. 6 people answered yes and 3 people said no and 1 person skipped the question.

The fifth question I asked people was if they knew about the Data protection Act and knew of its purpose. 8 people said yes and 2 people said no.

The sixth question I asked was if people knew who Rupert Murdoch was and all 10 people said yes.

The seventh question I asked was if people thought it is right to supply information about celebrity life. 2 people said yes and the remaining 8 said no.

The eights question I asked was how people would feel if the were phone hacked.  8 people said they would be very angry about it and 2 people said they would be annoyed by it.

The ninth question I asked was what would people do about it and most people said the would involve the police or sue.

The tenth question I asked was if people thought Rupert Murdoch knew about all the phone hacking and what was going on. 9 people said yes and 1 person said no.

Mind maps for Ident Ideas

Video Elevator Pitch for the CWC Ident

Animation Ident Evaluation

In class we have been learning how to make different kinds of animations and also we have been learning about idents.

Recently we were given a task to make an Ident for the college and apart of that task was to incorporate one of the stop motion techniques we learnt about.

To complete the task we had to work in groups so I grouped with Jacq Charls and Eyyaz Christy. The first thing we did together was research. We thought we would check out a few other idents  for TV channels and at the same time we watched some other claymation things on Youtube.

After researching various other idents, we each came up with an idea for one of our own. Then we pitched our ideas to each other in the group to find out who's idea sounded the best. Once we made our decision we then all made story boards for that idea. As soon as Eyyaz bought some clay for us to use for our ident, we started recording.

Recording only took 2 and a half hours to get done. During the course of that time we took pictures of my hand writing the CWC initials and both me and Eyyaz moulding the clay into the shapes we needed.  We took 2 pictures every time it moved to make it seem as if the clay was alive. The first shapes we made was the CWC logo initials and then we made it seem as if the CWC morphed into clay people and then into a ball using the stop motion techniques we learnt.

Originally I thought that the college ident project was going to be a long but fortunately our group was able to breeze through it with no problems or delays. We all worked hard and paced our selfs and got things out of the way as soon as we were faced with them. Over all it took us 2 day to complete with the hard work we had put into it. The first day was the recording day and the second day was the editing day.

We mainly focused on the claymation animation technique in our ident because the clay was the easiest to manipulate and morph which was exactly what we needed to give life to the college initials (CWC) in the video.

Once we completed our ident, we uploaded the video to youtube and then embedded it to our blogs so we could receive feedback from some of our class mates. All of the feed back we got for the ident was positive. People said they liked the CWC morphing  idea and the music we picked although one person said the music didn't suit the theme and another person said they wished it was longer.

Overall I am pleased with my groups ident. I think that if we completed our ident any quicker than we did, it wouldn't be as good as it is. My favorite bit of the ident is the bit where the CWC initials morph into people. The only problem I have with the ident is the bit just after the camera pans down from the college logo. The camera focuses back on the morph characters and they collide and turn in to a ball to symbolise unity but the way they come together can be very miss leading as some people have said that it looks like the morphs kiss. Other than that I am proud and happy with the ident me and my group have produced.

Plan B music video idea

Deadmau5 - Ghosts and stuff

Plot: The plot for this music video will be someone waking up in a forest and seeing them self far away. The confused person will then follow their holographic selfs to their original body to find they are actually dead. On the way to finding their dead body they will be stalked and chased by ghost/zombie like beings.

Theme: Ghosts, illusions, Horror

Action: Running, Stunts, Slow motion

Characters: The dead person looking for their body and as many Ghosts and zombies as possible. Probably 3

Location:

Eyyaz's hotel

Westminster - Baker Street, Victoria, South Bank, Hyde Park, Golders hill park

South London - Elephant and Castle, Heygate,

City Of Westminster College Ident

Film noir plan - voice notes

Frankie Boyle

Statement on Behalf of Disability charity:


Our charity, Disability Trust has been campaigning for many years to provide a better future for the disabled people who need it and to make local environments for disabled people as pleasant as possible.


I am not sure if you are aware, but the power of TV is very strong and is a big influence on the many viewers that watch it. One of the main goals of our charity is to get people to treat the disabled community with more respect and raise awareness. Such an offensive joke shouldn't have been thrown at Harvey. 


We believe your joke was a bit extreme and hurtful to not only Harvey and his family but to many others who suffer from his condition. We also think it was very wrong of Channel 4 to allow such a thing to be said on the comedy show and think Frankie Boyle deserves to be censored by Ofcom. Although some action has been taken against the joke, we are still disappointed in Channel 4 for allowing such a thing to be broadcast on TV and all around London. It makes such a successful company look unprofessional because it makes it seem as if the level of respect for disabled people Channel 4 has is low.  


In future we hope that Channel 4 can prevent offensive jokes aimed specifically towards any group or race of people and perhaps promote equality a bit more to change the attitudes of some who may have been affected by the joke both positive and negatively.


We think it would be a good idea for Channel 4 to produce an awareness program that will both boost the confidence of people who are disabled or looking after a disabled person and teach other people the importance of looking out for people who are disabled or looking after someone who is. We can imagine doing something like this will win the respect of many people and possibly boost your channel's rating.     

Storyboard for the City Of Westminster college Ident