👋🏾 Hello, my name is Helena Boateng!
🗣 Full name pronounced: (HE-LEE-NA) (BWA-TING)
🎓 Currently studying Film & TV + A-Level English Language & Literature at London Screen Academy (LSA)
🤓 I have a passion for all things production with a great eye for creative problem solving and challenging the status-quo
🎒 My involvement in projects at LSA and outside school has taught me the skills and mindset it takes to successfuly produce films and live television. During these projects I have delivered ingenious ideas for showcase, excellent pre-production material and analysed respective social-cultural context. My teams and I colloborated to create campaigns, live stream events and deliver short films set for screenings and film festivals using software such as Premiere Pro, Wirecast and Final Draft.
🔮 As for my future, the aspiration is to become a Production Manager where I showcase my adaptability, tenacious work ethic and organisational skills whilst colloborating with a diverse open-minded team.
🤽🏾/ 🎧In my free time, you can find me at a netball tournament or on a walk listening to a good podcast.
👩🏾🎤 Super Powers: Project Management | Editing | Assistant Directing | Final Draft | Logger | Vision Mixer
Projects
- UNCENSOREDUNCENSORED is a magazine produced by Helena Boateng and Asli Hassan. UNCENSORED is made by Black artists for Black Artists, aiming to spotlight and uplift underrepresented stories. UNCENSORED was founded in March 2022 in response to our Year 12 Final Major Project. As the Production Editor I organised interviews and transcribed responses; publicised shoot times via call sheets; researched social-cultural context on the correlation between race and mental health; produced primary research on col
- The Gender ApproachThe Gender Approach was a project born out of the Gender Equality Group in culmination with the Live TV Group, aiming to dispute gender sterotypes and spotlight underrepresented stories As the VT Poduction Manager, I coordinated guests, publicised call sheets and streamlined footage to the post production team to eliminate disturbance to the production. In addition, I had the privilege to work as the Studio Production Manager Assistant, ensuring we ran to schedule and supporting the Studio PM w
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Work history
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Podcast EditorThe London Screen Academy
London, United KingdomPart Time
Lights, Camera, Representation is a podcast poduced by the Ethnicity Inclusion Committee (EIC) here at the London Screen Academy.
Across the podcast, I hold the role of Podcast Editor - adding SFX, cutting, clearing background noise and adjusting sound levels accordingly. This has resulted in a 5 Star Review and appreciative content for others, across and outside of LSA.
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Assistant DirectorYoung Film Academy
- ItalyFull Time
Project Paradiso is a prestige project from the Young Film Academy, and provided their most promising students the opportunity to create a short film in Sicily, Italy.
Throughout the project, I held the role of Assistant Director and Production Stills Photographer. I reinforced our shooting schedule, communicated the director’s feedback and captured production stills across the shoot. This has resulted in International Film Festival submissions.
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Skills
- Active Listening
- Prioritisation
- Detail Orientated
- Communication
- Live Streaming
- Organisation
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Final Draft
Education
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UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Practice: Art, Design and Communication (Photography)The London Screen Academy
London, United Kingdom
Currently studying UAL Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice predicted Distinction and A-Level English Language + Literature predicted B
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GCSEThe Sydney Russell School
- Dagenham, United Kingdom
I received 9 GCSES Grade 8-5 including Mathematics and English
Awards
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Addressing unconscious bias: basic awareness in the workplaceScreenSkills
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Coronavirus basic awareness on production trainingScreenSkills
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