Client Project- Holgate School

This, the actual client project, will be a documentary regarding Holgate school in Hucknall. Im going to be working with Georgia Messham, a friend on my course whom ive worked with numerous times in the last few years.

I have a massively high expectation for this project, we have the chance to follow the progress of the schools new diversity and inclusion strategy, and its implications on Hucknall as a mining town.

School website
http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=21525

The school also has a department for digital media, in which pupils do a similar course to that of NTU's Multimedia. It is our hope that we can use some of the pupils in this subject to get on board with our project, in order to give them some actual experience in working with a crew for a production.

Meetings have been set up with Sarah Williams, head of Diversity at Holgate School.

Personal Research Project

I finally have sorted out my PRP title, but the reading is KILLING me. I have read about 4 medicine realted books, countless journals and A LOT of information regarding physchophysiology, psychology, biomechanics and biofeedback and testing...phew! Its a lot of work to get through, but some of it is actually quite interesting...even though some is certainly not.

Client Project-"Pest Supress"

Filming this week went really well, i managed to find a location which DIDNT look like a student pit, so straight away it looks alot more professional. Shooting didnt take long, i only needed about 15 minutes of total raw footage to produce the 30-second advert. I am in the process of editing now, once done all i need to do is record the audio for dubbing later.

Client Project- Simulated Brief

Here is the logo for the "Pest Supress" client project. Its quite simple, but less is more. Or so i am told. The logo will have to go on some form of packaging in the advert, but wont be seen for long, as long as it shows what the product is.

Music Project (Ext.)

Its something like 5 years since i started making 'choons', and it seem like finally things are being pieced together. I now use Reason, Logic, Pro Tools and FL Studio, and am trying to teach myself Ableton. I made a beat in the (very) early hours of this morning, which seems to have taken shape pretty quickly...usually i can never finish a song 'cos i keep coming back to it and changing it or transforming the genre. Its called "fight or flight", its a dark, hip-hop oriented sorta beat, and i plan to send it out to a couple of MC's in London, if not only for some feedback.

Client Project- Holgate School

JUst some background info on Hucknall..

Hucknall, or Hucknall Torkard as it was once called, has roots dating back over 900 years. Once a country village, that developed into a small town, it achieved considerable prosperity when, during the eighteenth century, the trade of Framework knitting blossomed.

A national depression within the industry affected the town during the first six decades of the 19th century. A short lived glove industry (circa 1840-65) helped to keep the town’s economy afloat. Then another small industry prospered; that of the manufacturing copies of Russian Orenburg shawls. A shawl measuring 1.5 square yards, containing up to 1,400,000 loops and be fine enough to be pulled through a ladies ring.

The textile industry, within the town, survived the depression and modernised its processes in line with the rest of the country. For over another hundred years it remained a strong industry within Hucknall, although a new industry was needed to provide jobs for some displaced workers.

Then, during the 1860s, the coal mining industry set foot in the town; bringing with it massive employment opportunities. Rows of new houses were constructed and within the 30 years following 1861 the population grew over four fold. Consequently not only providing work for the struggling textile workers but bringing prosperity to the whole town.