Global Student Education Forum (GSEF)
Here, I am Director of Audio-Visual Technology. I film, with a colleague, all their events, edit them and upload them to the GSEF website. Stay tuned for the first event online soon!
I set up all the equipment from the cameras, to the sound equipment to the computers from which the presentations are given. I am also in charge of GSEF’s Twitter presence.
The Cambridge Student newspaper
I am now a news reporter for The Cambridge Student, where I started by writing on the anti-corporate pranksters - the ‘Yes Men’ and have written on university admissions and other issues across the year.
Junior Projectionist, St John’s College Films
What it says on the tin - I am a junior projectionist which means I’m in charge of lights and sound. I also help assemble the films (anything from Terminator Salvation to In the Loop) from the multiple reels we get sent. I hope to move up the ranks to Senior Projectionist, wahey!
HUSH Magazine
I am now News Editor for the HUSH magazine - the Homerton College internal publication. Quite good ...
Buckingham Palace
Much as I never thought I would ever work for the British monarchy, I have ended up being employed this summer at Buckingham Palace counting money for the Queen! Why? Because there’s too much for her to count herself! Although how much there is I’m not allowed to say of course. State secret. And no the Freedom of Information Act won’t work.
I never wanted to be one of those middle-class kids who pushes off on a gap year to some expensive scheduled ‘help-the-poor-African-kids-then-sod-off-and-forget-them’ holiday. But I was lucky to make my own way into a school where I could work with staff and develop a specific relationship with the school, which has so far led to two return visits.
When I’m there I teach children or help with the drama productions they do. This can be exhausting and stressful but is a brilliant reminder of how life can be outside of the developed world.
Japan by Rail
I spent Easter 2010 updating the Japan by Rail guidebook published by Trailblazer Publications. I spent three weeks travelling around Japan looking out for changes to what was currently in the book. I’ll be updating the text at Christmas.
In 2003 my mum found out about some film courses being run by a group called EFTA in Dulwich. It changed my life. Having started as a nervous student on a 3-month course, I have progressed upwards to paid assistant and have now shouldered the role of production co-ordinators and editors on their summer film courses for children. Does it mean chasing children around? Yes. Is it incredibly stressful? Yes. But it’s also very rewarding.
