Monday, April 23, 2007

INDUS

I am currently at Indus in Cardiff which is really up and coming at the moment-the company growing enormously both in size and success. They have a real leaning for adventure documentaries such as Iolo's Wild Wales and bigger scale programmes involving trecking up Everest, the Amazon and Alaska as well as Bruce Parry success Tribe. This is great for me as I love action/adventure as well as natural history and underwater filmmaking.

Since being here I've been involved with development and ideas research, not so hands on with production and getting out filming (seeing as all the filming is abroad!) but its really useful to learn the development process and how to submit ideas to indies and the broadcasters like BBC and Channel four, they're even going to take some of my ideas forward in the commissioning round so I need to concentrate on developing and researching them a bit more thoroughly.

WORK IS PICKING UP!

Well I have been quite lucky (and kept stupidly busy) so far as I've been able to find extra work with BBC Wales doing extra camera work on 'Nature of Britain'. I'm really enjoying this as its giving me some excellent experience shooting for natural history as this is an area I really want to work in. As well as all the camera work (and driving!) and getting out into nature its a great learning curve to prepare for the scary freelance world when I finish the Cyfle training in July. As well as some well needed extra cash its really enjoyable so doesn't feel like work at all!