LSM’s Mentoring Pilot by Student-Mentee Rosie Turner

Posted on April 29, 2014 by RW

In February this year I was selected to be part of the Lincoln School of Media’s Mentoring pilot, where students across Media, Audio and Film & Television were matched with a mentor within the creative and media-related industries to give us guidance about the area that we wanted to get into. Being a Media Production student with a particular interest in Television I was matched with LSM’s 2006 alumnus Katy Atkinson, Director of ‘The Reporters’ Academy’ – it works with young people, training them how to report and interview with a particular eye to sport. Katy and The Reporters’ Academy were the first youth group to be granted a press pass for the London 2012 Olympics, where the team covered the event alongside such big names as the BBC.

Katy: “I am pleased to say we have made great progress. Our main thrust is to find Rosie experience, to project her ahead of other candidates and allow her to gain a better insight into what route she might like to pursue upon graduating. Rosie realises that her career journey has already begun.” As part of the LSM mentoring, we meet regularly with our mentors. My lovely mentor Katy very kindly invited me up to MediaCityUK in Manchester for the afternoon for our second meeting this April. I have visited Manchester before but never been to the newly built MediaCity… and I was amazed. Continue reading →

Congrats LSM’s Rosie Turner 4Crew Social Networker & Photographer

Posted on March 25, 2014 by RW

LSM’s second year student Rosie Turner is on our mentoring pilot between industry professionals and undergraduates. Rosie’s media mentor is 2006 graduate Katy Atkinson who runs a successful not-for-profit media production company called The Reporters’ Academy, based in Manchester. Next month, Katy has kindly arranged a MediaCityUK tour for Rosie and the two will continue to discuss career strategy. For now, Rosie has this super story to share.

Hi, I’m a Television and Photography student. Here’s a little piece on my recent job success at Channel 4. I’ll be working as a Social Networker and Photographer as part of the 4Crew team, travelling around the UK to film and document 4Talent Days.

I had heard about the job whilst working for the 4Talent department last summer through work experience so when the opportunity was posted online in February I quickly applied and crossed my fingers. At the start of March I had an e-mail back saying I was successful and invited down to London for a day-long interview at Channel 4. After an initial panic because my train was over an hour late and a little jog from one side of Westminster to the other, I made it to the interview, where I met all of the candidates for all job roles (Reporter, Director, Production Manager & Social Networker) within the 4crew team. The first task was a pitch presentation and I was up first! Continue reading →

George Horne | Director

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Christopher Hainstock

LSM Graduate George Horne (LSM Graduate 2010) is building a name for himself as a Director, based at lonelyleap an independently owned, multi award winning production company with offices in London and New York City.

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Clients include: BP, BBC, Channel 4, Bentley, CNBC, Intel, Kew Gardens, KPMG, Levis, Rio Tinto, Save the Children, Alcatel-Lucent, Ogilvy & Mather, Tumi, Film4, McCains and The World Economic Forum.

Recently George wrote, directed and graded this new Rimmel London promo.

“We edited in house on FCP, shot on 2 5D MkIIIs, sound was recorded on an external boom and clip on mics, shoot ratio was really high as we wanted to capture certain elements of spontaneity, fun and movement, oh and we also used a Sony Hi8 camera for the little vintage camera bits.” Continue reading →

Opportunity! Join LINC TV

Posted on March 11, 2014 by RW

LINC TV is the University of Lincoln’s first ever student created and student run television station. “Its goal is to provide University of Lincoln students with a range of content spanning across all genres. At the same time it is used as a tool for students to gain experience in the Media Industry during their time in Lincoln. Check out our work and don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to get involved!” Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Channel

Congrats! Audio Production’s Alice Asbury Wins Excellence Award

Posted on March 5, 2014 by RW

Well done from all at LSM to Year 1 Audio Production student Alice Asbury who received the University of Lincoln’s scholarship award.

from Alice’s mum

The Excellence Scholarship recognised Alice’s outstanding academic achievement. She attained the highest amount of tariff points in one sitting during her BTEC Extended Diploma in Music. Alice’s accomplishment put her in the category of ‘the highest achieving new undergraduate students joining the institution.’

Lincoln School of Media’s Alice was one of nine first year students, from across the University’s Colleges, to get an Excellence Scholarship from the Vice Chancellor Professor Mary Stuart: “Scholarships represents a very special moment for us all here at the University of Lincoln, when we acknowledge the successes of our newest undergraduate students.”

Update: Media Culture 2020 European Programme

Posted on February 26, 2014 by RW

Find out what 9 Lincoln School of Media students and 2 lecturers got up to in Latvia when they completed the 2nd edition of Media Culture 2020. It is an innovative EU-funded programme designed to explore new modes of collaborative teaching & learning. Here’s an update from LSM’s Martyn Thayne and Graham Cooper:

The main objective of the Erasmus Intensive Programme was to break down classroom and campus walls by creating an open learning environment, where students from different countries and fields could explore and learn together. The multi-disciplinary project featured five universities from across Europe, including Lincoln, the University of Vic (Spain/Catalonia), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Liepaja University (Latvia), and HKU Hilversum (Netherlands). In addition to the delivery of a number of interactive, online workshops, the project culminated in a two-week intensive programme hosted by Liepaja University, Latvia.

Video Produced by The CakeTakers

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Pledges Please! Support Wall Breaker to make ‘The Fisherman’

Posted on February 24, 2014 by RW

LSM’s Level 3 project group Wall Breaker Productions need your support to make a short film ‘The Fisherman’. It has a Kickstarter campaign with the goal to raise £950 (which’ll be added to the £1,000 in the Wall Breaker’s pot). The indie is nearly there – just need £330 by 10 March! You can pledge a donation as little as £1 and find out more about what the monies raised will be used for HERE.

The Wall Breaker production team: Continue reading →

Work Experience – Is It Worth It? By LSM Student Gemma Benefer

Posted on January 16, 2014 by RW

For those looking for jobs today, it’s a harsh world. You need experience but to even get the experience you need other experience and to get that experience you need a job. Not making much sense am I? But it is an endless loop.

To get work experience, you often need to do it for free. It can kind of suck, especially when other people you know are getting paid for having a “real job”, but you have to focus on what it would hopefully do in the long run. My work experience has already paid off and it kinda links to what I said before. There was an opportunity to work on the breakfast show at BBC Radio Lincolnshire during my second year at Uni. By this point, I was already volunteering at Siren FM. I applied, not really thinking I’d get it, but during my interview I was told that I wouldn’t have even gotten an interview if I hadn’t had any other work experience. So it just goes to show that to even get experience you still need other experience to get there.

It’s tough to get experience though, I’ll admit. A lot of the experience I have done is through sheer luck. I worked at Hollyoaks for a week because one of the Director’s was a family friend (and I honestly can’t thank him enough!) from there, I got the bug. Continue reading →

Another Opportunity for a Film Crew from New Media Lincs …

Posted on January 14, 2014 by RW

… Lincoln’s Witham St. Hughs Academy Primary School has asked us to produce a film of their school activities for its website.

http://www.witham-st-hughs.co.uk

New Media Lincs require 2 camera operators and 1 sound engineer. The filming will take place on Tuesday 28th January and Friday 7th February 2014.

This should be two fun filled days working with young children! Please email your contact details, CV, showreel, tutor’s name and year group to Hazel Donnelly: hdonnelly@lincoln.ac.uk

Opportunity: Film Crew for ‘Day In the Life’ Video on 18 Jan 2014

Posted on January 13, 2014 by RW

FILM CREW for THIS SATURDAY. Student opportunity from Hazel Donnelly, Project Co-ordinator at LSM’s Social Enterprise.

New Media Lincs has been approached by FITPRO Recipes to produce a ‘day in the life’ type video of a personal trainer. The filming has to take place THIS Saturday the 18th of January 2014. I require a crew of two cameras and one sound operator. If you’re interested in building up your portfolio and making business contacts, please contact me ASAP for this opportunity and others, just email me! hdonnelly@lincoln.ac.uk

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