Suliman Ahmed
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Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2014 |
student
Event |
part time student BFI |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2015 | MA’s, BA Arts and Media Management | BFI (British Film Institution), Birkbeck University of London |
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About me
I believe I am a business minded and tenacious individual who in retail, office, or labour is used to working hard and achieving the best when tackling objectives. I consider myself knowledgeable in film and video post and pre-production. I have experience in organising and coordinating shoots and am familiar with using production equipment. I have a proven track record in consistently delivering excellent customer service skills within a highly demanding and competitive marketplace. Extremely ambitious and anxious to work within a industry or corporation that challenge’s myself, broadening my knowledge and abilities within any work related environment, steering me to achieve larger and significant roles within the future.I am open and approachable with strong written and outstanding verbal communication skills. I am able to consult and collaborate with others. Flexible and able to meet demanding timeframes and accommodate rapidly changing priorities.
Theatre professional:
I believe I am a business minded and tenacious individual who in retail, office, or labour is used to working hard and achieving the best when tackling objectives. I consider myself knowledgeable in film and video post and pre-production. I have experience in organising and coordinating shoots and am familiar with using production equipment. I have a proven track record in consistently delivering excellent customer service skills within a highly demanding and competitive marketplace. Extremely ambitious and anxious to work within a industry or corporation that challenge’s myself, broadening my knowledge and abilities within any work related environment, steering me to achieve larger and significant roles within the future.
I am open and approachable with strong written and outstanding verbal communication skills. I am able to consult and collaborate with others. Flexible and able to meet demanding timeframes and accommodate rapidly changing priorities.
Additional skills:
Studying how to manage arts and media organisations - including film, TV, museums, galleries and theatres from practitioners and academics who are actively working in the arts sector.
Learning about Impact of digital technology such as the rise of social media networks and ‘prosumers’. Issues of equality and diversity such as precarious labour conditions.
Practising how to deal with different cultural forms such as contemporary art galleries, global media and international arts fairs and the emerging and changing’s of culture society and media in post war period.
Learning how to work from transcript and writing for specialized markets. Studying film language from a range of different films and television including mainstream popular narrative, non-Hollywood arts, avant-grade, documentary and non-European cultures, industrial conditions and film theory.
Examining key issues that impact Digital Technologies, Equality and Diversity as well as increasingly relevant debate on the precarious labour conditions within the creative economies.
Developing knowledge and understanding of different creative media industries as well as making sense of these sectors and what they mean for contemporary economies.
A better understanding of film and media enhancing my ability to interpret the social, economic and cultural structures behind films, television programmes and newspapers.
The ability to critically reflect upon and negotiate with the key issues in the media.
Identifying different markets and formats for the media sector, creating research portfolios for feature articles.
Understanding main organizational structures currently in the arts and media, with a focus on management practices in the cultural and creative industries and the changes made by internet in this field.
Understanding relevant issues such as governance, financing, copyright and the key technical requirements for managing a project in this sector.
The ability to critically reflect upon and negotiate with the current economic and political climate in relation to the arts and media sector today.
Skills in journalistic writing, writing for specialised markets and writing to a brief, Interview techniques and skills
Understanding different aspects include
Research Techniques, Working to a Brief, Critical Approaches to Media Products, Understanding the Media Industries, Interview and Presentation Techniques, Shooting Single Camera Drama, Video Editing, Multi-Camera Production Techniques, Paper-based Animation, Factual Programme Production Techniques, Video Editing, Music Video Production,
Understanding budget control and Critical approaches to media products. Working in pre and post production, learning to work to a brief, film and video editing, learning camera techniques, Stop motion filming, 2D animation production
Creating digital graphics for videos and web, creating Idents for television, learning about HTML, web authoring
A broad range of skills and experiences using digital SLR cameras, HD video cameras, editing software and Mac computer suites for photography, animation, single camera drama, multi-camera studio production, documentary production, research techniques, scriptwriting, critical analysis of media products and professional ways of working in the media industry.
A high level of understanding of post and pre production of film and videos for television and cinema with the ability to critically analyse videos and animations for post and pre production and my commercial and cultural awareness of the media and creative industries.
Skills
Secondary Job Title | Camera Assistant |
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Job Titles | Video Editor, Production Assistant (PA), Production Support, Camera Assistant, Boom Operator, Sound Assistant, Props Assistant / Support, Locations Assistant, Casting Assistant, Post Production Assistant |
Years in industry | less than a year |
Work Permits | EU |