Day One - Alie

On my first day of work experience for the Cambridge Film Festival, we were given a lot of simple tasked to do in groups that would help out with the preparation for the first day of the festival. I arrived at the picture house at 10am, and the first task I was involved in was, we were given loads of name cards that had the names of all the staff and important guests of the Film Festival. First we had to hole punch them, then we put them on the things that the people can wear around their necks to show they are involved in the Film Festival.

The next task was, the class was divided into two groups, the group that I was in were given loads of Film Festival brochures and we had to go around Cambridge going into places like shops & cafes and asking if we could put some of them on display in there so that their customers can pick them up if they are interested in attending the Film Festival. There was six of us in the group that had this task, so we decided to split into three groups of two so that we could hand them out to a wider range of Cambridge. I was with Mike, we had to go up and down the streets that are close to the film festival. We managed to hand out all of the brochures that we were given, most places we okay with us leaving some, we put them in shops, hairdressers, bakeries & hotels, but there were some places that did not want any of them on display.
The other group had to prepare gift bags for the guests.

The last task that I was given on my first day was to work with Philippa and take a basic digital camera around the picture house, and film the inside and surroundings with some shots of what was going on. Once we had shot all the footage that we needed we edited. After editing all the clips and adding music and titles we had to upload the video to Vimeo and once it was on Vimeo, put it up on the CFF live website.
...this is the video that me and Philippa produced


Cambridge Film Festival Kicks Off - 17/09/09 from Cambridge Film Festival on Vimeo.


I finished work experience at 4pm.