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Lewis
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- Edinburgh City Centre
- United Kingdom
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Vacancies and paid opportunities within the Scottish film and television industry which at least meet the minimum wage.
iphones are crap. This review sucks.
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- Best Described As:
- Amateur, Student, Filmmaker, Writer
- About Me
- As a student at Stevenson College Edinburgh (SCE), my journey has taken me through an NQ, HNC and HND in Creative Industries. The initial focus of my attending the college was to learn more about how to form my own creative scripts, direct films and - my main passion at the time – to learn about camera operation. I am currently taking time out from education and preparing for a degree course to continue my learning of the television industry and to help achieve my desired outcome of a role, camera work or creative writing, within this industry. I have a keen interest in sports, films and human behaviour. In my spare time I enjoy reading on philosophy by Sartre and self improvement using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
During the HND at SCE, I took on a brief given to us as part of our major projects at the end of the year. I created a 15 min factual documentary that was to be pitched to the producers & funded by the college. At that time, I had completed a NLP Practitioner course in London & I’m fully qualified as an NLP Practitioner after my involvement with this field of ‘alternate therapy’, ‘goal setting’ and human behaviour. It only made sense to me to create my major project on this subject as the question I got asked a lot was “What is NLP?” - hence this was also the simplistic title for my factual documentary. I have since utilized what I have learned as an NLP practitioner within my own work in filmmaking. Working within a small group for projects at SCE was a constant for me and building good physical and mental rapport with the colleagues in my team has been a key success factor in how I approach my film shoots. I shot “What is NLP?” with a team of two. I had arranged shoots and interviews by researching NLP seminars in Scotland. Good rapport was vital when effectively corresponding with potential resources to get all footage that I had aimed for in my script - which was designed to educate those whom had never heard of NLP.
I have worked as a part time support worker for people with disabilities during the past 4 years & this field of employment has also led me to create a college documentary on Down’s syndrome called “Down 2 Earth”. My main aim was addressing some of the assumptions made regarding people with this disability. I have also collaborated with Edinburgh City Youth Cafe to help with a short film on the dangers of alcohol abuse at a young age. I was in charge of directing young offenders to act in a film they had written with my help. Helping others less fortunate has been a recurring theme in my film making of recent and I have found this to be mentally rewarding as well as positively challenging. I’m frequently looking for ways I can improve my performance as a filmmaker via feedback from my peers.
My five top films are:
1. Lost in Translation.
2. The Science of Sleep.
3. Cool Runnings.
4. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
5. Pulp Fiction
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Comment Wall (8 comments)
- At 11:41pm on November 24, 2009,
Billy Dowling-Reid said…
- I'm afraid not, pal. But I will help you to compress your videos for the web next time I see you!
- Billy
- At 2:49am on November 24, 2009,
Billy Dowling-Reid said…
- Hey Lewis! It may well be the case that you'll be busy with other projects, but I thought I'd make you aware of the initial 'feeling things out/early days' phase for the next MM production. You can view the post on the discussion forum by clicking here. I should be boring and stress that no immediate action is planned, and that this is just me trying to gauge interest levels. Cheers!
- Billy
- At 2:30pm on February 24, 2009,
Billy Dowling-Reid said…
- Don't tell me you're still having problems uploading your showreel pal!
- At 8:17pm on February 20, 2009,
Billy Dowling-Reid said…
- Aye pal, that looks like you. Driving your car!
- At 8:34pm on November 12, 2008,
Craig McKenna said… - Allo, how are ya then, awrite?
Looking forward to your minor shoot, Lewis me old chum. I pitched me own minor idea to the class and was thought to have "Commanded the room" according to Fraser. It was a good experience.
Perhaps we could arrange some time during the next few weeks to do some brainstorming of ideas - perhaps eventually get something filmed as an option for both our showreels.
- At 9:29pm on November 6, 2008,
Billy Dowling-Reid said…
- Any feedback on how I can make it clearer would be much appreciated. Basically MUCKi is just something people can use to make their own pages. Like a Wiki.
- At 9:13pm on November 6, 2008,
Billy Dowling-Reid said…
- Get MUCKi, Lewis! GET MUCKi - BAH GAWD, HE MAY BE BROKEN IN HALF!!!!
- At 2:57pm on September 3, 2008,
Billy Dowling-Reid said…
- Hello pal! This year is gonna be immense - I can FEEL IT!!!
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I've reinstated this to the main navigation bar. Not sure why it wasn't there to begin with (took ages to find).
- "Your helpful insomniac admin" Cx
I definitely think Billy is working for Apple lol. I agree that the price for Celtx is silly. I think most of these apps holds novelty value and nothing more. But you should invest in an iPhone. They're shiny. :P
Driving people places. Making tea. Coiling cables. Sending rejection emails to failed auditionees. Mopping floors. Logging shots. God forbid, once they actually had me operate a camera.
As I am but a weak and feeble woman (with a strong backgroun…
Driving people places. Making tea. Coiling cables. Sending rejection emails to failed auditionees. Mopping floors. Logging shots. God forbid, once they actually had me operate a camera.
As I am but a weak and feeble woman (with a strong backgroun…
This seems like one of your periodic outbursts to me...! :P Yes, the two big networks are now far bigger than Media Muppet, but you always knew that was going to be the case as soon as those websites appeared. Central Station has over 60, 000 member…
Need a writer? A director? A cinematographer? Looking for someone to work on an immediate project with, or just bounce ideas off one another? Post all your creative collaboration wants and needs in here.
http://www.willowcreekpictures.com/ I'm Alan Andrew Taylor, an independent digital film producer based in Edinburgh, Scotland offering video production servi...
It is a good website,that is a lot of money to run a website,but I can see there is alot of content on here,I can imagine it being time consuming especially with one person doing it all
Due to the nature of the site, and the large amounts of bandwidth and storage required, as well as all the extras such as people having their own profile pages, MM costs about £35 per month to run. I was always fine with this so long as people made…
Creative Scotland and central station doesn't appeal to me, it's all art house driven media and films and I can't relate to i.
But looking at some of the content and films,trailers on media muppet does interest me. It's good to see and talk to othe…
Well Billy, now you're scaring me a little! I am sure the other sites are splendid BUT to me MM has a niche too. Someone I know in the DIY scene has just killed off his band - a bunch of guys that created some really great music - have just STOPPED.…
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