Week 4: CVs and work placement

Week 4 was all about the interviews and all about the CV distribution.

As mentioned last week, I gave my CVs to Estuary TV and to Planes TV. Today (being the 7th of October), I have gained my work placement with Planes TV, working every Wednesday. On week 5 (From the 8th October) I shall start between 9:30am and 10am and finish at around 6pm.

So with today: I had the interview at 8am with Marketing Director, Adrian Campbell. I felt that the interview started off amazingly well. We spoke about my experience at Estuary TV and what kind of editing I did with them. I stated I worked on: On The Bench as an editor, sound op and camera op; That Friday Show as an editor, sound op and camera op; and did odd jobs within the editing room. From there, I felt it went down hill.

I love aircrafts, however upon being quizzed about my aircraft recognition, I failed and didn't answer a single question correctly. This was completely my fault, since I did not research properly into different types of planes; mainly ones that they had filmed, that were within their archives. After, I was told I would learn as I worked.

The next segment of the interview consisted of being given a scenario: 'You're a director, and you have to come up with a TV show for people who like planes for an internet TV channel. Go.' Now, if you remember back to the SWOT analysis post, you will remember that I stated in the weaknesses section about not being able to convey my ideas effectively. I have worked on this, but only with a well rehearsed idea in another module (production research). However, I still have trouble on the spot. This part took the longest and consisted of a lot of 'umms' and 'erms' and 'ahhh' and 'arrrummmm' utterances which you could associate with a chimp, but I digress. Point is, I have a lot of work to do in regards of being able to convey my ideas.

Surprisingly, I got still got the post of editor. I was shocked, and extremely happy.

When I had passed interview stage, I got straight into edit work and started to catalogue clips and edit the arrival of the Canadian Lancaster with interviews and cut aways of the crowd and the aircraft itself.

Me at the edit station at Planes TV editing the Lancaster arrival.

Tomorrow, I shall carry on with that tasking.


Until next time


Josh