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Position: Film Maker

The last of our film team Max Gillard has recently finished college studying Creative Media Level 3 and Max hopes to continue the course on to University to someday gain a job in the media industry.

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Position: Film Maker

Thomas Hearn, has been involved in media, for about three years. Tom likes to work a lot at a computer, particularly the editing suite. For the ABC project, Tom worked on the edit itself; created and pieced together both the footage and the music, Tom created the visual elements of the ABC ‘About Us’ video and put most of the visual effects on the video.

I think we can agree that along with the rest of our youthful student team; Tom has done a very fine job indeed.

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Position: Film Maker

Jonathan Taylor has been working in the media sector for 3 years and for our filming projects he worked as the production manager. John worked on graphical elements of our film, About Us for example, rendering images and making them look good on screen.

Jon is also experienced in animation and he made the logo and animation sequences in the ABC corporate videos.

Part of Jon’s brief was to also organise the administration side of filming, known collectively to admin experts the world over as ‘the paperwork’.

The ABC is looking to recruit volunteer members of staff in an unpaid intern position; to gather regional news stories about those on State Pensions and Benefits and feed this information to our association’s website. You need to be proactive, be able to write well, and have a nose for stories,  that would interest those people in receipt of state funding in your region.

We are interested in those how wish to help others, and have an interest in News and Current Affairs.

Although this is initially a voluntary position, for those who show vigour and aptitude, we aim to employ people in future. The position might suit a retired newspaper person(s) or a student looking to build on their CV or LinkedIn profile. To reply in the first instance; send you’re CV and a brief outline of why you feel your qualities match our requirements to this email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.