BVA603 - Week 5



06/08/2019

Bo told me that filming didn't end up happening over the past week, so we went and tried to film the student interviews today. Bo had us provided with a Sony X200 and shotgun mic. We interviewed students at the Downtown campus to start with, and then went onto interviewing students at the main campus on Tay Street. I gave myself a go at being the cameraman for the first interview at the Downtown campus, but I had a problem keeping still, so I switched to being the boom operator. I was the boom operator for a few student interviews until I needed a break from that.

 During the student interviews at the main campus, I was the BTS photographer using Bo's Nikon DSLR. I took as many photos as I could and stayed as long as I could before I could have some time to get some food and go back to class for 'Afternoon Delights'. Most students we interviewed spoke against the polytech merger, whereas a few international students spoke in support of the merger.

 Bo will be editing the footage altogether in his spare time. His deadline is Saturday at the very latest, so it's not left at the last minute for the marketing team. My job on the day of the Q&A event will be being the backup camera crew.

 BTS photos







































Internship programmes

North Island
SKY TV
Park Road Post Production
South Pacific Pictures - Westside / Shortland Street

 South Island
Waitaki District Council
Amazon Studios - Lord of the Rings

 Overseas
Paramount Pictures

SKY. (n.d.). Internships at sky. Retrieved August 6, 2019, from SKY Network Television website: https://www.sky.co.nz/-/mk_careers_internships_text

 This would be good to pursue despite being based in Auckland and favoring other tertiary institutes other than SIT.

Waitaki District Council. (2018). Internships projects. Retrieved August 6, 2019, from Waitaki District Council website: https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-council/internship-and-cadet/intern-projects/Pages/projects_list.aspx#link8

 This would be perfect for me because it's in Oamaru, which is an hour drive from my hometown, Timaru.

Park Road Post Production. (n.d.). Education. Retrieved August 6, 2019, from Park Road Post Production website: 
https://www.parkroad.co.nz/education/#entryrequirements

 Park Road Post Production had potential, but it's very expensive and it's currently TBC for their 10 day intensive that they have for film students.

 Paramount Pictures. (n.d.). Internships. Retrieved August 6, 2019, from Paramount Pictures website: https://www.paramount.com/inside-studio/studio/internships


10/08/2019


 I had looked into Crewlist and registered on that site/app, but I couldn't find anything coming up or any opportunity next year in the local film industry aside from the Avatar sequels. The internships for those movies have already been advertised and filled earlier this year.

 Bo
I came across Bo on campus today and I asked about his progress on editing together the student interviews, but he was a bit behind and was trying to make up for it

Internship opportunities

 North Island
SKY TV
South Pacific Pictures - Westside / Shortland Street

South Island
Waitaki District Council
Amazon Studios - Lord of the Rings

Overseas
BBC
Channel 4
BBC
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a British massive media and broadcasting corporation that create and produces content that entertains and informs people with different forms of media like online platforms, film, television, and radio. Their reach is not only in the United Kingdom, but also around the world.

 Trainee and graduate schemes at the BBC ranges across different departments like production, technology, business, and journalism. It is a paid internship where you are provided with necessary training and is based in various place in the UK like the London, Birmingham, and Salford.

 They have a Twitter account that is always advertising career opportunities and positions called BBC Careers and it's the same for the BBC's LinkedIn page. The BBC has recently won 'Employer of the Year 2019' from the Women in Technology World Series awards.

 I did look at the BBC's official Twitter account, but it was full of promotional posts of their content. The same goes for their Facebook page.
BBC. (n.d.). About the bbc. Retrieved August 10, 2019, from BBC website: https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/

BBC. (n.d.). Production trainee schemes. Retrieved August 10, 2019, from BBC Careers website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes-and-apprenticeships/production/pts
BBC. (n.d.). Production trainee schemes faqs. Retrieved August 10, 2019, from BBC Careers website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes-and-apprenticeships/production/pts-faqs

BBC. (n.d.). Trainee schemes. Retrieved August 10, 2019, from BBC Careers website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes-and-apprenticeships/traineeschemes
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British media and broadcasting company that is based in London, England. They rely on independent productions and companies for most of their content. However, it is a business that relies on itself and reinvest their income back into the productions that they commission. It has a progressive view where they publish media content to the world, while still challenging the status quo. 

 Channel 4 have a social enterprise model, where they are commercially funded, but at the same time, they are not for profit and as a result, they are obliged to put their income back into the productions that they commission. 

 They have multiple industry training scheme including one called 4Stories. Three lucky people get to direct an episode of an anthology series while being mentored by professionals in the industry. Your completed episode is guaranteed to be broadcasted on Channel 4 and puts your foot in the door for having a career in directing for television. They encourage women, the disabled, and people with disadvantaged background to pursue this opportunity. 

 On their LinkedIn page, They had been recruiting for new people for their new HQ in Leeds, made announcements about people now in positions at their company, they share their annual report, and the winners of their playwrights' scheme and much more.

Channel 4. (n.d.). What is channel 4?. Retrieved August 10, 2019, from Channel 4 Television Corporation website: https://www.channel4.com/corporate/about-4/who-we-are/what-is-channel-4

 Channel 4 Careers. (n.d.). About channel 4. Retrieved August 10, 2019, from Channel 4 Television Corporation website: https://careers.channel4.com/about-channel-4 

 Channel 4 Careers. (n.d.). 4Stories. Retrieved August 10, 2019, from Channel 4 Television Corporation website: https://careers.channel4.com/4talent/industry-talent-schemes/4stories

11/08/2019

Bo
I came across Bo on campus again, but he had the flu and was doing what he could on putting together the student interviews. He did manage to get my BTS photos to us through Discord and OneDrive.

 In hindsight, I would had helped him by editing half of the footage.



Waitaki District Council
The Waitaki District Council is a local government body in North Otago, based in Oamaru. They have people who work as representatives for their local population and issues facing them.

 They offer a wide range of internship projects in many different subjects like tourism and marketing, information technology, management, the environment, business and economic development, finance, communications, engineering, governance, and film and the arts. There are opportunities in film and the arts by being a liaison for Film Otago and Southland, and producing and putting together video resources for the council, as well as other promotional material. 

 Places for internships at this place are limited and is open all year round. The duration can vary from 10 weeks to one year. It's an unpaid internship based in Oamaru, with accommodation provided.

 On their LinkedIn page, they have recently shared their annual plan, press releases, promotional videos about working for them, and local events.


Waitaki District Council. (2016). About local government. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from Waitaki District Council website: https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-council/aboutourcouncil/Pages/aboutlocalgovernment.aspx

 Waitaki District Council. (2016). About our council. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from Waitaki District Council website: https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-council/aboutourcouncil/Pages/default.aspx

 Waitaki District Council. (2016). Internship and cadetship. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from Waitaki District Council website:

https://waitakidistrictcouncil.recruitmenthub.co.nz/Vacancies/4486576/title/Internship-and-Cadetship

 Waitaki District Council. (2018). Internships projects. Retrieved August 6, 2019, from Waitaki District Council website: https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-council/internship-and-cadet/intern-projects/Pages/projects_list.aspx#link8

Amazon Studios - Lord of the Rings
Amazon Studios is an American film and television production company and is a subsidiary of Amazon and often have their original content distributed through their online streaming service, Amazon Prime. 

 I could potentially have an opportunity to work as an intern on their production of the Lord if the Rings TV series next year.
Filming for a prequel television series of the Lord of the Rings films and books is expected to start production in New Zealand next year. The show has been commissioned for 20 episodes. In July this year, it was confirmed that pre-production had begun at two film studios outside of Auckland (Kumeu and Auckland Film Studios) and it's believed that Queenstown will play a big role in the making of this TV series and that a film studio will be built there for the production. It has also been confirmed that some of the filming for the show will be Auckland. It won't be in Wellington because of the Avatar sequels being filmed there.

Amazon Studios. (n.d.). Amazon studios. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from Amazon website: https://studios.amazon.com/

 Amazon Studios. (n.d.). Amazon studios frequently asked questions. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from Amazon website: https://studios.amazon.com/help/faq

 New Zealand will be 'huge' part of the US Amazon Lord of the Rings production - reports.(2019, July 1). Stuff. Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/113897642/new-zealand-will-be-huge-part-of-the-us-amazon-lord-of-the-rings-production

 Sharf, Z. (2019). Tolkien scholar reveals the changes amazon’s ‘lord of the rings’ series is banned from making. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from IndieWire website: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-20-episodes-second-age-details-1202164467/

 Theunissen, M. (2019). 'Very high-level talks' secure filming for lord of the rings tv series. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from Radio New Zealand website: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/393416/very-high-level-talks-secure-filming-for-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series


SKY TV
Sky TV is a New Zealand satellite television provider that broadcast content that entertain many everyday New Zealand across the country by people who do what they love and are passion about it. It has been around over two decades and have a large number of subscribers nationwide.

 They offer a large range of internship across different department of their businesses. The interns receive the necessary feedback, support, skills, and knowledge to ensure that they are employable in the industry. They also have placement options for students needing to do placement as part of their studies, and they have also provided guidance, mentorship, and information that is required of these students. Some interns have gone onto on-going to be employed with SKY TV. To enquire about the internship and placement opportunities, you can contact them by email.

 On their LinkedIn page, it's been revealed to me that their sports channel got itself a bit of a revamp, they had offered their viewers Te Reo Maori commentary for All Blacks matches against Fiji, and they have also made a commitment to online streaming and making sure they are providing accessible content to their subscribers.

SKY. (n.d.). About us. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from SKY Network Television website: https://www.sky.co.nz/aboutus

 SKY. (n.d.). Internships at sky. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from SKY Network Television website: https://www.sky.co.nz/-/mk_careers_internships_text




 South Pacific Pictures
South Pacific Pictures is the largest screen production company in New Zealand and is based in Auckland. In the 30 years of its ongoing existence, they have produced over 5500 hours of drama, factual and entertaining content.

There could potentially be opportunities to work as an intern on their dramas, Shortland Street and Westside. They make Shortland Street, which goes on television all year and have recently been approved funding from New Zealand on Air, for their next and final season of Westside.

 Both their Facebook and Twitter pages are full of promoting their content.
South Pacific Pictures. (n.d.). About. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from South Pacific Pictures website: https://southpacificpictures.com/about-us

 NZ on Air. (2019). Homegrown drama and comedy on a winning streak. Retrieved August 11, 2019, from NZ on Air website:
https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/news/homegrown-drama-and-comedy-winning-streak/?fbclid=IwAR0hc0HEGuFIieUIZvdVRnecZqrvHHNUX6r0xHv1fnJ2nYXBAbCYHbfduOc

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