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BBC Edit Assistant Trainee Role Blog 09/05/22
From Feb 2022 to April 2022, I worked as a Trainee Editor for a BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) production located in Bristol.
The main part of my training within the archive team Involved working with edit assistants to learn various archive related skills and techniques including offloading, media management, transcoding and linking footage through editing software.
I offloaded related tasks such as delivering, requesting, tracking and handing off data drives and ensuring drives they were backed up. As part of archiving I learned the importance of media management and used Avid and DaVinci Resolve software to ensure file names, folders, camera types were coded by date, camera type, scene, footage number and program name so they could be easily sourced if required at a later date.
Transcoding using DaVinci software I learned how to create timelines and export the correct settings ensuring codecs, format and options were all of the required standard.
The files rendered through DaVinci Resolve software were then linked to Avid using Avid Media Files folders to ensure all the files had been transcoded properly. In addition to the main Archive tasks I also learned other editing related skills and techniques including Playouts, formatting drives and sourcing files.
For playouts, I would make a copy of the bin with the footage and all its audio and effects and call it Playout with date next to it. I would then export the file and save to desktop in chosen production portal once playout runs smoothly. To format drives I used a Mac to plug drives in, check they had nothing important on them then open disk utility to wipe the drive. Sourcing files would require finding various files on drives using search utilities and then making copies on separate drives to ensure a valid copy was available if required.
This valuable experience gained at the BBC has allowed me to expand my skills and knowledge and hopefully provide further development opportunities. I am so grateful and thankful for those involved at the BBC that have supported me.
Purpol Marketing: Kickstart My Career Programme Blog 23/12/21
I completed my Kickstart My Career Program at Purpol Marketing, July 2021 to December 2021. During this program, I have learned and developed many new business and marketing related skills. This included learning how to use Zoom and Microsoft Teams by setting up accounts, scheduling meetings and becoming familiar with the products. During these meetings, I learnt about business, by participating in group discussions, planning activities for the week, how we would put them into practice and sometimes taking a lead in organising certain aspects of a project.
As part of the kick start program I regularly completed logs detailing the webinars and learning courses I completed, how long it took and the main learning points of each one. I also wrote a blog about what I achieved and a whitepaper on the courses. These are detailed above on my certificate, where training is listed. These aspects of the Program, helped me to be more organised, providing more experience and developing better time management.
During my Internship, I was given the opportunity to show my creative skills by recording and editing webinars, editing PowerPoint presentations and course content. I also recorded and edited audio samples, produced animation and made infographics on each of the Purpol Marketing Academy courses I completed. For many of the infographic's and Graphic Design tasks I used Adobe Photoshop and Canva software which was published on social media.
I worked in teams developing specific courses, such as Net Zero, which is about encouraging businesses to better help the environment. In these teams, we built presentations where we would present our findings and facts on a zoom meeting, along with other groups. We would develop audio recordings, video presentations and animations, agree which sections of the course we would edit, then produce the best course videos to present.
Finally, in my Internship group, we worked on various projects for clients that helped us gain a sense of what it would feel like working on a client contract. This gave us valuable experience in the world of digital marketing in how to approach and work for a client. Such tasks included; making an advert for CDM Recruitment and creating a blog for its web page, making a website using Wix for a jewellery brand and Purpol Marketing in developing game ideas for Gamification to be used on Purpol Marketing Academy.