Documentary on\with\for\from Bulgarian Students

I was invited to help with the production of a Documentary on Bulgarian student's here in the UK and show the struggles they face to fight through the bureaucracies of obtaining working status and visa.

Even though I never been so swamped with projects to work on like I am right now, I couldn't say no to this opportunity. This is what it means to be a media student, "scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" kind of thing. Its pretty much like the main industry out there, helping each other grow.

Excited, sceptic and optimistic at the same time.

We've been planning for a week now. Along side with my other active projects: Aston Martin GT4 Challenge, Major Incident Simulation, Birmingham International Fashion Week, Supersonic Music Festival, Production Lab, BUCS Gatorade Nationals, and the assignments for Factual Entertainment ("Granny Knows Best").

I'll try to write individual posts for each project! Hope this will help me keep everything on track. Piece of cake as they say...(GULP!)

We start shooting tomorrow. Roll camera, action!

Test Run

Covering the BUCS Gatorade Nationals in Sheffield was a great opportunity to test run the practicalities of my Production Lab project.

In more basic terms my project is about creating adventure\sports videos and promoting them so that in turn I establish myself as an active videographer and keep building my portfolio.

The BUCS contest was a chance to put plans in action. It involved specific planning, production and post-production work.

It was also a chance to try my new GoPro for the first time:

A fully detailed analysis about this 'sub-project' will be featured on the final Project Plan report.

P-Lab-Camp Unconference

Just got back from a rather interesting Production Lab session: an Unconference.

 Here are the rules for this meeting concept:

1. The people who come are the best people who could have come.
2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened.
3. It starts when it starts.
4. It's over when its over.
5. The Law of Two Feet (I you are not learning or contributing to a talk or presentation or discussion it is your responsibility to find somewhere where you can contribute or learn").

Twitter hashtag: #bculab2013

The session was very diverse as different groups were formed to talk about a range of issues.
These were the topics addressed:

• Networking; 
• Social Media; 
• Time Management; 
• Writing Scripts\ Scenarios; 
• Using Audio; 
• Photography;
•  Blogging;
•  Presenting Yourself Online;
•  Using Multimedia Platforms; 
• Project Management; Research.

Gatorade Nationals 2013

"The BUCS Gatorade Nationals MMXIII took place between 22-24 February 2013 in Sheffield as nearly 6,000 student athletes from 134 Universities, competed across 12 different sports for national honours." 

www.bucs.org.uk

The final version of this preview clip will be entered in the BUCS media competition.

Co-Produced with Verginia Stoyanova.

Special thanks to the BUCS Media Department.