CV

Mikey Richard Tibble

4 Empsons Loke Empsons Loke Winterton-on-Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 4AR 07583420283 | 01493 394062 mikeytibble@yahoo.co.uk

Personal Statement

As recent graduate from Flegg High School, with 7 GCSE's in English, Maths, Science, Drama, Catering, Media, and an award in Dig.Apps.Level2, which is a grade C, I have done work experience in the catering area of my school and worked at the schools canteen area as well for my work experience. Due to this, I have gained experience and the ability to work in a team With other people and learned that conflicting with each other is never the way to work together. I am currently studying film and TV in college, this has given me the skills to work in the media industry, and it has trained me to know what I am getting into. I am looking to secure a position as an apprenticeship at the Theatre Royal in Norwich because I feel that I would be a worthy asset to the workplace, also, doing an apprenticeship here will also give me the experience I need when Im going to apply for another higher ranking media job.

Skills

·           I have many transferable, job-related, and adaptive skills that can benefit you hiring me. Great confidence is a very important trait which I have, this can be used when helping out a customer, I also have had many awards in maths and have been known for my quick calculations so if the till is broken, you know who to call, if I am asked to do something I try to never let that person down and do my best to aid them. I am currently learning British sign language, most of the time I am on the computer so I know quite a lot about IT and fixing computers, at school I tried my best and have been awarded a few times for effort during lessons, and most importantly in a team, working hard is the most important to me, along with supervising to make sure everyone does their part.

Work Experience

Flegg High School, Martham, NR29 4QD 01/03/11 - 15/03/11 Catering Assistant Assisting students in preparing and cooking food, washing up utensils student didn't wash up, give demonstrations on how to properly prepare food.

Flegg High School, Martham, NR29 4QD 01/03/11 - 15/03/11 Assisstant in the drama room Working the lights, performing, teaching students about improvisation, and other different drama techniques.

Education

Flegg High School, Martham, NR29 4QD 01/09/2007 - 01/06/2012 English: C Maths: C Science: C Drama: B Catering: C Media Studies: C and D Award in Dig.Apps.Level.2: C

Hobbies and Interests

My hobbies include: Cooking, Fishing, Shopping, Surfing the net, Cricket, Bowls, Rugby (don't play it that often), Baseball, Rounder’s, Table Tennis, Collecting, Game design, Animation, Calculating, Filming, Photography, Watching Movies, Learning Sign Language, and Gaming.

References

·           Ellie Buchan East Norfolk Sixth Form College Gorleston On Sea Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR31 7BQ 01493 662234 EBuchan@Eastnorfolk.ac.uk ·        Sean Offord East Norfolk Sixth Form College Gorleston On Sea Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR31 7BQ 01493 662234 sofford@eastnorfolk.ac.uk

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CV Cover Letter

Documentary 'mini task'

Introduction: What is a documentary?

Good evening, throughout this assignment I will be taking you on a tour of the main documentary terms. But first, what is a documentary? Googles dictionary defines it as "A movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record or report." These documentaries can be divided into five different 'modes' in which i will be discussing today, so with out further ado, lets get to it.

Expository Documentary

An expository documentary is a documentary that exposes peoples lives.A good example of this is the documentary, We are the Lambeth boys where it focuses on a London youth club and its 350 members. The main conventions of expository documentaries are:

Facts

Opinions

Rhetorical Questions

Persuasive Techniques

and Commentators

These are all used to give the audience the idea that its almost like a news report and it is also used to educate people on current affairs, or just interesting subjects.

A good example of an expository documentary is a documentary on youtube, made by Joseph Waugh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOy9kJqqks) which focuses on the safety around the campus, the do’s and don’ts and also talks about the security in depth.

Observational Documentaries

An observational documentary is a documentary that has no voice over, no interviews, and sometimes no talking. Usually they consist of long shots of people going about their everyday business to no soundtrack, just the sounds of the surrounding area. A great example of this is the documentary High school where the entire film is just shots of high school students studying, playing, and even learning. This film was deemed by few quite controversial as quite a lot of the shots where of the young girls posteriors.

A good example of an observational documentary can be found on youtube, made by jonnyp95, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucypclv14wU) and it focuses on a green grocer in east London and the changing trade of the market.

Interactive Documentaries

The next mode is called an interactive documentary, this is when the film maker is seen talking to the audience and interacting with the world around them instead of hiding being a camera and not letting the world know who they are. A good example of this is the documentary, Louis and the Nazis', Louis Theroux follows the lives of white supremacists. some business types, and some even families raising their children in this environment. It is a lot harder to get peoples permission to film when doing this kind of documentary because of the fact that people might not want to their lives probed, and they do not want to be paraded on TV, the privacy standards have to be higher because some peoples life styles could be very disagreeable, and that could cause an outrage in disgruntled part of the audience.

An example of an interactive documentary would be 9500 liberty, (www.9500Liberty.com) which focuses on the controversy of police questioning people who look like illegal immigrants, it talks about racial profiling and how it is not right to judge someone from their appearance.

Reflexive Documentaries

A reflexive documentary is one in which the film maker uses shots of everyday life, but only uses them as bricks in an even greater theoretical wall, this format is used quite a bit to experiment. A great example of this is the documentary, Territories, it focuses on Britain in 1984, and mainly on the black-British and their cultures. To me, this film gave the impression that i was under some sort of psychosis, and this is what I mean by it being experimental. 

A good example of a reflexive documentary would be the road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sviHM5rNZ5A) which was uploaded onto youtube by elautenticogc and it focuses on one man talking to a woman while she is driving for ten minutes and it goes into great detail on certain subject, this is also an experimental film in the sense that it is just footage of a woman driving for ten minutes.

Performative Documentaries

A performative documentary is used to inform someone on a disaster, or a mission, like the Columbine shooting, or the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. They use eye witness interviews, and dramatisations to tell the story in a better way, and sometimes they even you 3D animation technology to better understand the situation. An example of this is the movie, The thin blue line, which is about the testimonys of suspects from the shooting of a Dallas police officer in 1976. It uses dramatisations to better tell the story, re-enactment are used quite often in this format because it makes it easier to understand than just picturing it. Including them gives the audience much more of a grasp on the situation and it is less likely going to make them tune out because they understand exactly what is going on.

A good example of a performative documentary would be about the dunblane massacre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEfFI4N1Ms) it uses dramatisations, and documentations to give evidence and to tell the story of a school shooting in dunblane and the main reason why guns are banned in Britain today.

Conclusion

I believe that documentaries are a great way to inform someone of a current event, or of an event that happened years ago. They can also be greatly used to give someone knowledge on what its like living in a different time period, or as a different race. Not only that but it also shows you the weird people and places, and as well as the incredibly extraordinary places and people. I finally think that the film maker has a contract with the viewer, and that they shouldn't create stuff up or blatantly lie to the audience. The film maker has a responsibility to the public to give them reliable information.

Sources:

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=documentary&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=UZq7UaraG-Oy0QXb-IHYDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC4QkQ4&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=1cf1e14e0ff1d30&biw=1517&bih=741

http://www.creativetimes.co.uk/system/files/4744/large/We_are_the_lambeth_boys_pic.jpg?1333056446

http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/highschooldvd.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/Louis_and_the_Nazis.png/250px-Louis_and_the_Nazis.png

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/images/artists/isaac_julien/essay/Territories-1984.jpg

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Letter Essay

East Norfolk Sixth Form College

09/07/2013

Dear Mr Cook,

I am writing to you today to discuss your job application form, I believe that the job is very discriminative and explicit. Throughout this letter, I will discuss your help wanted letter and mention what is wrong and why it is wrong and back it up with evidence.

There are a lot of problems with your terms concerning your recruitment flyer, you have a very broad range of pay and hours and this can compromise a persons financial and time stand which will affect their choice in applying.

According to your flyer, the job will entail you to interview teenagers and other individuals who might be/have been affected by the topic, this will affect the confidentiality clause which states that you cannot give information out on children or vulnerable adults without express permission of the parent or guardian.

One problem with your advertisement is that you put you are looking for a male or female applicant aged below 30, this inflicts the equality act, which states that “Discrimination on grounds of race, gender or age is illegal.” A good example of this is BBC’s Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly, who was awarded £150,000 after being fired for being ‘too old’. A way of resolving this is to keep age out of the question entirely, the only reason you could put this is if you are looking for talent to star in this production. Another problem is that your flyer states that the employer will be interviewing teenagers and other individuals who have been affected by date rape. This will breach the employers liability and employees rights, which state that the employee will be penalised if they give information of children and vulnerable adults. Since you will not be protected until you are employed, the employee is vulnerable to going to prison, this also links into the health and safety regulation. One way you can solve this is if you use actors to impersonate the victim don’t show their face on camera, and use a different name so that they cannot get tracked anyway. Trade unions were created to protect the employees from things like this, the members pay a yearly fee of £120 to be in these groups and it doesn’t hurt to invest in it in case legal topics come up. They’re also created for the protection of employees.

Another problem I’ve found is the ethical issues you have raised in this flyer, I believe that stating your religious views breaches the equality act of 2010, the act states that “Religion means any religion and a reference to religion includes a reference to a lack of religion.” Which means that you cannot influence your beliefs onto other people with a different religion, especially if it a job requirement, the only right way of improving this is that you keep your religious views off the flyer entirely. This ties in with the codes and practice, which equal opportunities employers aim to recruit fairly and they produce these codes of practice that shows they comply with the equality act. Another problem is that you want the employer to interview “male offenders” which in itself is a breach of safety, but the fact that you want to represent rapist as male teenagers is discrimination and you are representing a group with its lowest percentage. A way of changing this would be to put “offenders” instead of “male offenders”. This links in with how people are represented in the media, and how it is not right to portray a certain race, gender, or religion as negative.

One more problem I have found with your advertisement is there are a lot of legal issues involved with this, like protecting the under 18’s which I have already mentioned but according to Ofcoms laws it states that:

·         “Material that might seriously impair the physical, mental or moral development of people under eighteen must not be broadcast.

·         In the provision of services, broadcasters must take all reasonable steps to protect people under eighteen. For television services, this is in addition to their obligations resulting from the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (in particular, Article 27, see Appendix 2).

·         Children must also be protected by appropriate scheduling from material that is unsuitable for them.”

This is why the water shed was put in place, the watershed is a law that states that you cannot show programs on television that could be seen as obscene before 9:00pm, another fact about this is that shows after the watershed get progressively worse as time goes by. Also, if it wasn’t for the communications act of 2003, and the broadcasting act of 1990, Ofcom wouldn’t even exist. This ties in with the obscene publications act of 1959, they need to do a procedure which they will:

“1. Test of obscenity.

2. Prohibition of publication of obscene matter.

3. Powers of search and seizure.

4. Defence of public good.

5. Citation, commencement and extent.”

If this project was published, the BBFC would likely give it a 15 certification, if that, it would probably be an 18 due to dramatizations of rape towards under 16’s. It also says that you need to back the documentary up with a new hit music soundtrack and that we will be compensated £20 for the track, this is another flaw due to the intellectual property law, which states that you cannot use anything that is copyrighted or trademarked without express permission, and usually they would ask for a fee which would be significantly more than £20.

That’s all the changes I believe you need to do on your advertisement, thank you for reading this letter and I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,

Mikey Tibble

Sources:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/66/contents

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/protecting-under-18s/

Give Me A Job! | A guide through job roles in the media industry, by Mikey Tibble

ITV News Opening analysis

Analyse the connotations of the title sequence

The first thing we see when the opening titles start at 0:44, is big Ben  which is also a phallic symbol with it standing proud, what we also see is the time on big Ben's clock face says its 1:25pm and quickly moves to 1:30pm which is the time the program starts which could also connote that its "time for news". I have already mentioned big Ben but it is also a landmark, and at 0:49 you can see a group of construction workers building the Olympic stadium from the 2012 Olympics  this would also connote that the news channel also focuses on continuous news as well as current news. throughout the whole of the titles i could only see one clock and that is big Ben  this could connote that the channel does focus on world news, but news in this country is their main priority. There doesn't seem to be any transparent objects, except when they film inside the studio and you can see a bunch of tv's, with different archive footage on them behind the glass, this would connote that they are looking for news story's anytime of the day and it also shows the many diverse news stories that they encounter trying to force this idea that they're not a biased news program. I couldn't find a single satellite in that entire opening, this could connote because that this is a brand new opening from a month or two ago, that they have disregarded old methods of receiving news, and have gone to digital and are also using the internet for a source. there was no shot of the world from space in this opening, there were a few land marks like i said but this bring be back to my other point that this news channel mainly focuses on news from the UK and Ireland. The only eyes that matched the rule of thirds, were the news readers at 1:00, but there were a lot of shots of people walking, this could sort of connote that again the news broadcasts on a diverse scale. I counted five instances of technology, at 0:44, you see big Ben  sure its old technology but its still counts, at 0:47 you see a wind farm, piloting the idea of a much greener electricity source, at 0:49 you see a construction site, using technology that was never used to build things 100 years ago, at 0:52 you see what looks like surgeons operating on someone or something, this kind of technique would have never been used in the 19th century, and finally at 0:54 you see a convoy of cars going down a busy road, all of these would connote that itv news is stepping into the future and is keeping up to date on all technological advances. At 0:55 you see a rushing graphic saying itv news being followed by an up beat tune that would beat every time the graphic quickly zoomed out, this would connote that they would get you the news on time and ready, to the beat you could say! the music in this is a fast paced, beaty brass sound that would almost change key every time a different shot would appear. Usually, there would be a really fast beat in the background of these news titles, almost like it were Morse code, the lack of the beat in this would connote that again they're stepping into the future, abandoning all outdated technology, and going for a medium that would let you receive news so much faster. There is no male voice over in this opening although there is a female voice over saying "This is ITV news, with Nina Hussein  this could connote that the stereotypical place of the woman in society is starting to deteriorate to give them a non-biased look, also judging from the name, they're also hiring women of different cultures to read the news as well to, again, not give them a bad look.

Analyse the connotations of the newsreaders

The first thing we see when the clip has started is that Nina is already to get started, she is following the rule of thirds and is staring into the camera as if she is looking at you and saying the news. She starts by looking down and then looking into the camera, this connotes that she has only just noticed the audience is there and is immediately ready to get started, as if shes saying "oh hello, didn't see you there" and then starts reading the news like she had been rehearsing the lines all of her life and know them off by heart. After the opening, you see her shuffling her papers, like she is always ready, like in my last point. The last thing I have to say is that she is wearing a suit, this would connote that even though she is giving you the most recent news in a quick, snappy 30 minute routine, she always has time to look formal and to look like you are getting the news from someone extremely important, making you feel important.

Analyse the mise-en-scene of the studio

As the camera cranes to Nina  you see that everything is placed in a neat modern style, not every thing all over the place, this make you focus on this one space and it is more likely that you would focus on Nina as it dissolves into a mid-closeup shot. The TV's in the background could indicate that they're still receiving fresh news, even when the program has already started, this makes people feel that it is a trust worthy source. The only other thing that i could say about this is the lighting, its an ambient light, and unlike other news programs, you cannot see the studio lights, this could indicate that its less formal than all the other channels because instead of being on a stage, addressing the news to you, its like your in a room with her discussing the current events and makes you feel more at home.