Work Experience // Day 1
July 28, 2009
Today was the first day of my work experience with Sort Of.. Films; a film and video production company in Sheffield. Since we were shooting today, we begun at 8.30am, with enough time to drive over to Catcliffe where we were capturing shots for several short films to showcase the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. The centre is involved with Rolls Royce and Boeing, so a number of innovative products are manufactured there. As well as this, the centre also use robotics and virtual reality which were interesting demos to watch. I was tasked with logging the time codes for each of the shots as Ed shot the footage we needed.
We’d done by lunchtime, so headed back into Sheffield city centre, where the office is based. Whilst capturing the footage into Final Cut, I helped archive a collection of Mini DV tapes in the store room, and backup some older render files to DVD. Without the graphics for the project, I assembled rough cuts for a couple of the films, ready to be completed tomorrow.
Assembling rough cuts on day one of work experience? Wow. I predict you’ll be running the company before the year’s out!
Very jealous, sounds like you’ve picked your work experience very well. I had a terrible time working as a data inputter at Quest International, a chemical engineering works. Hope you enjoy your time there!
haha. The films need to be like a minute each and I think there’s about six to do. Shots needed for it were basically showing machines/virtual reality/wind turbines/people working. Still fun though. Thanks for the comment Tom!
@Jon I don’t have to do work experience as part of my uni course, but I wanted to do a few weeks over summer for something interesting to do. Cheers for the comment!
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Lucky sod!