{"id":14406,"date":"2015-09-02T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2015-09-02T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:00:04","slug":"from-the-olympic-games-to-coca-cola-matts-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/09\/02\/from-the-olympic-games-to-coca-cola-matts-story\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Olympic Games to Coca-Cola \u2013 Matt\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMatt Camlin graduated from our MA Directing Digital Film and Television<\/a> course in 2011. Here, he talks a bit about how his career has progressed since then, which has seen him work on projects from the 2012 Olympics to Game of Thrones.
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\"MattCamlin2\"I graduated from my MA in Directing for TV and Film in September 2011. The day I handed in my final dissertation I got a call from a lighting cameraman that I had assisted two years prior in Bristol whilst studying for my undergraduate degree. He invited me on a three week shoot in the Canary Islands, shooting promo videos for TUI. After a successful three weeks, the contract was extended for a further three weeks.<\/p>\n

Upon returning to the UK the reality of starting at the bottom in the media industry hit me. Although I had a competitive advantage over many of my fellow young graduates with my MA, I still had to start at the bottom and fight for any runner, camera assistant, DIT, PA jobs that I could get my hands on over the following six months, working on commercials, films and TV shows.<\/p>\n

In May 2012 I got a job working at Nash Studios as a camera operator and was later promoted to Studio Manager. It was there that I had an exciting glimpse into the bigger picture of the industry as a whole. Assisting with casting on films including Les Miserables, The Councillor, The Worlds End; TV shows including Game of Thrones and The Escape Artist and lots of commercials, I worked as one very small wheel in the highest levels of British TV and Film production.<\/p>\n

The experience motivated me to push myself towards joining these prestigious ranks in my own right. Whilst I revelled in being part of this brilliant industry, I wanted to play a bigger part in my own right, as opposed to assisting someone else, so in May 2013 I left Nash Studios.<\/p>\n

I took 3 weeks of my holiday leave that year to work at the London Olympic Games. At BU I got the opportunity to enter the Broadcast Training Scheme, which I had graduated from (despite having a broken arm) after my work in the Canary islands the previous year (even though it did mean missing my own graduation).<\/p>\n

I was allotted to Wimbledon for the Olympic Tennis as a camera assistant, but was promoted to camera operator before broadcast began. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to work on the biggest TV event in history and I loved every single second of it (even when I nearly hit Roger Federer with my camera).<\/p>\n

In May 2013 I joined Bold Content Video<\/a> and began my career in the world of corporate video production. Since then I have worked on loads of exciting projects for world renowned clients including Coca Cola, The Princes Trust, Barclays and many more.<\/p>\n

As well as being fortunate enough to film all around the world, I\u2019ve also grown hugely as a professional at Bold Content. We work on exciting, innovative, thought provoking projects with talented, creative colleagues and I can hardly believe I\u2019ve only been here for a little over two years.<\/p>\n

My time at BU aided me in a number of ways. Networking in a multi-discipline environment working alongside other professions (sound capture, editors, writers, producers, editors etc) gave me a great understanding of my colleagues, as well as strong connections going into the industry after graduation. Also, I\u2019ve found that a lot of courses teach the basics of how to tell stories, whether it be narrative, documentary, etc. A noticeable advantage of going to BU was my understanding of why to tell those stories in that manner, and that put me head and shoulders above my fellow graduates once I entered the job market.<\/p>\n

For people looking to work in the industry I would offer the following advice \u2013 don\u2019t underestimate the power of \u201cit\u2019s who you know.\u201d It\u2019s a well-known expression in our industry, but I didn\u2019t realise just how true it was until I hit the job market. Keep in regular (I suggest monthly) contact with as many industry professionals as you can, amongst a wide spectrum of specialisms.<\/p>\n

Originally published on the Alumni Blog<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Camlin graduated from our MA Directing Digital Film and Television course in 2011. Here, he talks a bit about how his career has progressed since then, which has seen him work on projects from the 2012 Olympics to Game of Thrones. I graduated from my MA in Directing for TV and Film in September… Read more » about From the Olympic Games to Coca-Cola \u2013 Matt\u2019s Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[877,130,48,2024,2048,2058,108,2186],"class_list":["post-14406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-ma-directing-film-television","tag-masters","tag-matt-camlin","tag-media-school","tag-postgraduate-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}