2. What are you currently doing to pursue a career in your chosen field?
I am currently doing level 3 media at York college to pursue a career in
film making. I have chosen to do a short film for my FMP which will give
me an insight in film making and will help understand what it takes to
make a film. This coarse will help pursue a career in film making because
if a get a merit I will be able to do a film studies coarse at a university.
3. What do you plan to do next in the pursuit of your chosen field?
I plan to go to a university next after I finish this media coarse. I plan to
do a film studies coarse so that I can get more of a understanding on film
making and how to pursue a career in that field and I finish the film
studies coarse I might be able to get a job related to the film industry.
4. Select at least three potential University courses that would help you further your career aims. You should state
what the course is, which university it is run by, the entry requirements and why you think it would help you.
The first coarse I have chosen is the film studies coarse run by York saint john university the requirements are 3
gcse at grade 4 or higher including English language and 96 tariff points which is equivalate to a merit in the
media coarse I am doing. This coarse is about analysing and debating films which will be useful to get into a film
making job because this coarse will give me the knowledge of film making. The next coarse I have chosen is the
Media Production: Film and Television coarse run by York saint john university and has the same requirements as
the film studies one but is about analysing and creating films and television shows. This will be helpful because I
will learn about the film industry and get a create products as well. The last coarse I have chosen is film and
television production run by university of York which the requirements are to obtain access to HE Diploma with
36 credits at Distinction and 9 credits at Merit or higher. This coarse is like the film and television one run by York
saint john university and will be helpful because it teaches you how to use all the equipment on a set.
https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/humanities/film-studies-ba-hons/
https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/media--production/media-production-film--television-ba-hons/
https://www.york.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/bsc-film-television-production/
5. What type of work experience do you think you would need to help you in your future career? How might you
be able to find work experience placements? If you could pick anywhere to do work experience, where would it
be and why?
Work experience what would help me in my future career would be at a
media company which create adverts or films so that I could get some
experience on what it is like to film and be on a set. I might able to find
work experience through networking or looking online for some work
experience placement which will help achieve my future career. If I could
pick a place to do work experience it would be at warner bros studio in
London because they are making films all the time and it would be good to
watch professional working on set and seeing how everything works.
6. What specific skills do you need to develop? There should be a mix of industry specific skills and also personal
development points. When you identify these, come up with suggestions as to how you might make those
improvements.
Skills I need to develop is my editing skill because I only know the basics
of editing videos and I can improve a lot more in that area. I can improve
this by watching tutorial video on how to edit and just learning the
software. Another skill I could improve is my focus because I can get
distracted easily. To improve this I just need to remind my self to focus on
my work and don’t have anything out which would distract me.
7. In 5 years time I will…
In 5 years time I will hopefully have a job in the film making industry
