Previous Commissions

I have been involved in several previous commissions, we worked with Sawston Cinema trying to create a logo for them, but they didn't really like our ideas, and decided to use one of their own.

I was also commissioned by the Health and Social Care department at college, to create some educational videos at one of their H&SC days at Bottisham Village College. They asked me because they knew i had access to the equipment and it would be good experience for me. Me and Alex were asked to go to Bottisham VC with the H&SC students, and film as much as the day as we could. We were then asked to produce 3 videos of varying length that could be used in lessons and would be at least slightly beneficial to the students. The longest video was about 20 minutes long, and was quite easy as we kept in a lot of the interesting footage. This included the crash re-enactment, the activities that were going on throughout the day. We also included some interviews with students and teachers and gave a good feel about what the day was like. The next one was half as long, we cut some of the crash, some of the interviews and a bit of the activities. The short one was harder, as it was going to be shown more, and had to be interesting, but informative at the same time. I spent a long time trying to edit this so it worked, but every time it was either informative and dull, or exiting and useless. After a while, i decided the best interview i had shoudl go in, as it gave a good idea of what was going on, and i would show brief clips of the activities and the crash. I only kept in the most interesting bits of the crash, the emergency service vehicles turning up, them cutting the roof off and dragging the casualties out etc.

When i gave my videos to the H&SC staff, they loved them. They have also been used by the people who organised the whole event as a way of showing what they do. This commission was successful, even though after i gave them the videos they didn't even bother saying thanks, just took them. I don't really mind, i know people who have seen them being used so my work is being shown even if i'm not being credited for it.

I have also been commission by the English and Media Center to write an article for Media Magazine, which i did. I wrote an article about censorship in the media and it got published in the magazine.