Creative Masters graduate in Advertising & Design seeking employment in the film and technological areas of the industry.
Passionate individual about the creative world and its power in relation to modern day technology.
Through my studies and experience, I have collated first hand experience over a wide variety of media forms, from film, photography, print and more. I am proficient with Adobe suite, Mac and Windows Software.
Key experience in executing campaigns in an agency like environment for a range of brands, clients and products.
Keen poet and photographer, with my work being showcased in multiple exhibitions in Leeds city centre and published in the Independent Leeds magazine with a 50,000 copy print out
Work history
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Street PromoterSuper Friendz
- Leeds, United KingdomFreelance
• Key part of the promotional team for music promoter Super Friendz, suggesting new methods of engaging customers through print design, social media and more
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Video EditorJJ Marketing
- Reading, United KingdomInternship
• Researched the company and its history in order to make informed insights relating to a new video advertisement that they wanted made that had the objective of displaying the company’s roles.
• Analysed the company’s prior advertisements that concerned themselves with this topic and ads from other companies that aimed to do this.
• Brainstormed the ways that the company’s roles could be shown in a video medium.
• Discussed with the agency team the contents of the ad and finalised a storyboard that showed effectively the growth of their clients when working with JJ marketing through the symbolism of a tree being grown and nurtured.
• Produced portfolios and treatments for the company’s content.
• Familiarised myself with the following up of distributed media such as the maintaining of social media marketing projects, the analysis of feedback from these platforms and bringing these two together to form new marketing strategies.
• Used various programmes such as Photoshop, Aftereffects and Premier to create the video
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Skills
- Adobe Creative Suite
- After Efects
- Premiere Pro
- Social Media Advertising
- Cinema
- Poetry
- Film Advertising
- Photographic Direction
- Photography Editing
- Print Advertising
Education
Masters in Advertising and DesignUniversity of Leeds
- Leeds, United Kingdom
Including modules in Marketing Communications, Consumer Behaviour, Advertising, Creative Direction, Social Media Marketing, Media Planning and Strategy and Integrated Communication.
The courses format was very much like an agency team where had to create campaigns for companies with varying brand personalities and demographics.
Dissertation on the rebranding of Showcase Cinemas
• Skills and experience in creating campaigns as part of a team in an agency like environment
• Creating campaigns and proposals for a wide range of different brands in a client based scenario
• Developed skills in extensive research and development for campaigns, ranging from product, brand, target audience and their competitors
• Form in detail sale strategies, ranging across different forms of media, in print, online, video and social media platforms
• Finalising executions and presenting campaigns to audiences, in agency environments for a wide variety of brands, products target audiences, demographics and clients.
BA Cinema and PhotographyUniversity of Leeds
- Leeds, United Kingdom
Modules: Screenwriting, Film Production, Photographic practices and contemporary photography, Screen narrative and fiction, Communication research and History, Cinema History and cinematic themes, Cinema in the digital era, camera and editing, creative practice, mobile media and promotional culture.
Submittion of short film to Yorkshire Film Festival
• Development of practical skills in visual storyboarding and presentation when conveying concepts in an agency team setting.
• In-depth knowledge of modern media forms, from film, video and photography
• Enhanced skills to a professional level within the fields of graphic design, photography, film and writing software.
• Great understandings of style, form, narrative and ideological issues.
• Visual and critical analysis of photography and film, with editing skills
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