Morgane Willer, an AS student from Chichester, recently spent a week working with us at Strong Island Media. We let Morgane do a Strong Island post about what she got up to:
During the week of the 7-10 March 2015, I went for my AS Level Work Experience to Strong Island Media in Southsea. In previous years I had worked for some media companies, but it was mainly admin/office work. I didn’t particularly learn any new skills or learn much about the media/film industry, which I would like to pursue as a career. Strong Island however, seemed to offer much more hands-on practical experience which would be much more beneficial for me and my portfolio for future employers and universities.
I worked on numerous projects. I began learning how to use the camera and all the professional equipment. This was very interesting as no one had shown me such professional camera gear before. We put all this knowledge in practice at the beach, where I took some pictures and filmed the sea and all its surroundings, leading me to edit this footage (for the first time!) on Final Cut Pro 7. Our next big project was with TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) for their 2015 General Election film. This too was very different to what I had ever done before as we filmed in the streets (of Portsmouth) surrounded by the general public. I worked mainly with camera and the boom mic and by the end of the day my arms were killing! But this was fun and was worth it as I experienced what it was like to film on set, taking numerous shots, repeating shoots and directing some of the cast.
On the last day of my time with the team at Strong Island, I edited the cutaways that would be used for the TUSC film into a sequence of my own. As well as this, I learnt how to edit on Photoshop the images that I took at the beach. All in all, I made two short films and edited some pictures, which are valuable for my portfolio for future references. I learnt vital skills for the industry and I appreciate all their time and effort, thank you very much for that lovely week.
– Morgane Willer
You can see Morgane’s beach edit below plus the final TUSC film used int he run up to the election.
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