Creative England

Creative England is a great company that have only been running for one year, and are very well connected to the UK film and television industry. They have a register for film production crew workers that is very easy to join. I definitely recommend joining this company if you are looking for work within the UK's film and television industry.

19th of September 2012 saw Creative England's 8th networking event at Elstree Studios. As a graduate looking for film production work it was very insightful.

www.creativeengland.co.uk

Ditto TV Sunrise Film Festival Highlights

Highlights of the amazing Ditto TV event Sunrise Film Festival.

Click here, for the main website.

Click here, for the photos.

Congratulations to David Stafford for winning Viewers Choice Award and Alex Searle for winning Critics Choice Award. Great films guys!


David Stafford - Lost & Found from NUCA Film and Video on Vimeo.
What is animation from alex searle on Vimeo.

Charlie Has Been Released

So one year later after being away from my blog I have now graduated from Norwich University College of the Arts with a Bachelors degree in 'Film & Moving Image Production'.

My new short film 'Charlie In The Middle', is now finished and has now been released for everyone to see.
You can see all the behind the scenes photos on the films official Facebook page.
www.facebook.com/charlieinthemiddle

You can view the film on Vimeo here.


Benjamin Harding - Charlie In The Middle from NUCA Film and Video on Vimeo.

Projects Outside My Education - 2012

I'm going to start with what I've been up to with the projects I've been involved in outside of my university work.

I was fortunate enough to get a great opportunity to boom operate a short film production that was being directed by my friend Martin Watters called 'Golden Globals', for Heart FM radio station.
Here is a sneak peak at what we were up to behind the scenes.

Next I was lucky enough to produce a promotional events video for Norwich Cathedral.
But the really exciting thing that I was involved in this year was as a sound recordist for a low budget feature film called 'Another Day'.

The film is kind of surrounded in mystery at the moment, there's not a lot of marketing at the moment, but there will be. I will be posting links to all advertising of this film when it is released.
I can say that it will be making it's way round the major film festivals next year.
I had a great time being a part of this production and met some amazing people that I will never forget, can't wait for it's release and seeing it on the big screen for everyone to enjoy.

At the moment I have now got my first paid gig as a filmmaker. I am producing an educational tailoring DVD for the fashion department at the Norwich University College of the Arts.

I'm Back (One Year Later)

It's been a long time since my last post. Been very busy with not only my final major university project, but also a few outside projects. A lot has happened in the last year.

This post is a kind of an introduction to the posts that I am now going to create to fill in on what I've missed out on in the last year.

Live TV Studio Session

I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to have a go at using a live TV studio. For me this involved live camera transitions and using the TV studio cameras. At a later date, I'll have to upload the video me and some other students created of a morning show practice run. At the moment we're also creating a mock panel game show. It's basically just some students messing around, playing three games from some popular panel game shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway and Never Mind The Buzzcocks. But it should showcase that we know how to use a TV Studio. I have to admit I had a fun day, and I learned quite a bit about live TV show broadcasting and hope to learn more in the future.
Here is a link to some photos of this session.