In Depth
12/07/2018
Channel 4 News cameraman Dai Baker has travelled around the world, including a ten-year stint at the broadcaster’s Washington bureau.
He’s now based in Wales where, alongside a reporter and producer, he films and edits news packages from Wales and the West Country - although he’s always on standby to go further afield, covering the inauguration...
In Depth
12/07/2018
When he was offered two days a week on the Scott Mills Show in 2012, he did everything in his power to get noticed. “I would turn up at 8.30 and stay all day and help wherever I could, no one asked me to leave!”
He has since gone on to become a household name on Radio 1 and has carved out an exciting career with fresh and interesting content for...
In Depth
10/07/2018
Like most editors, Matt Meech started out as a runner, working at a post-production house in Soho where he spent his spare time learning how to use editing software Avid.
Matt put together a showreel which impressed his bosses enough for them to give him a job as an assistant editor.
Since then, he’s moved to Bristol, first working on a...
In Brief
10/07/2018
Building a career in sound, Tony believes, is the same as it was when he began over 40 years ago. “[You] need to do the work at the coal face,” he believes, and work your way up from Sound Assistant to Sound Supervisor.
A degree isn’t always necessary either. Due to how specialised TV sound is – the skills needed differ greatly between genres...
In Brief
10/07/2018
It’s not a completely closed shop however, says Sarah Liversedge, Managing Director of independent music publisher BDI. “There’s lots of different [routes to] how someone approaches somebody like me.”
“If I think somebody is talented and they’ve sent me a link of their SoundCloud… I will remember it. I would normally say [to] keep in touch,”...