BBC Blast on Tour 2009

I am currently working voluntarily on two BBC Blast Tour events in Brighton and on the IOW.

Blast offers creative, exciting and free workshops for 13 - 19 year olds across the UK.

My first stop is Brighton...to teach young people how to create a short film! I will upload a review, pics and content when the placement is complete!

In the mean time, check out the Blast website and the IOW e-flyer below to find out more:

Working with the Student Radio Association

I Love Student Radio Campaign

The I Love Student Radio campaign aims to promote the activities of student radio across the UK, highlighting the variety, diversity and quality of what is surely one of the most vibrant and interesting sectors of the UK media landscape.

I was involved in organising and promoting the launch event in London on October 21st at Westminister University and got the chance to mingle with industry professionals; including interviewing Radio 1's Greg James and David Garrido.

To find out more about the project go to the I Love Student Radio website - my interviews will be up on the site shortly!

Interviewing David Garrido - picture by Barry Carlyon

Filming at Glade Festival!

Southampton Solent University students were given the exciting opportunity to be a part of Glade, the electronic dance music festival for the third year running. The festival, a spin off from the larger Glastonbury festival, has been attracting an eclectic mix of open minded individuals since it first blasted out its electro beats four years ago.


After working for the festival in 2007 as part of the Solent Glade programme sellers, I managed to make it onto the backstage media crew, as a roaming reporter. I interviewed festival organisers, bands and DJs (including; Dreadzone, The Orb & SubGiant) and punters to find out what Glade is all about, as well as practice my video skills by filming live on the Main Stage.

The footage was used by the Glade artists and uploaded to the Solent University website.

To read more about the project click here. To view the highlight footage click here.

View the slideshow from Glade 2007.

Reporting from Glastonbury festival!

In 2008 I was part of the documentary team, reporting from across the site to create a feature about the festival's Green Issues.

You can view the video on the Solent University 'Gogglebox'

About the project:

The Solent at Glastonbury experience was organised by Southampton Solent University's very own Glastonbury veteran Dave Poulton. Students from the Faculty of Technology's Media Technology course and from the Faculty of Media Arts and Society's Film and Television Production course supplied coverage of the Dance East stage whose line up included Roisin Murphy and Fat Boy Slim.

The students created highlight packages for major news agencies including Reuters, Associated Press and ITV.

As well as covering Dance East a documentary team, commissioned by the festival, created 6 short documentaries on green issues surrounding the festival, including one on the Jazz of the World Stage and the Dance Village. A documentary on ecology was also filmed.

The festival, who work closely with environmental charities such as Greenpeace and WaterAid, saw the green police out on the beat once again.

The documentary team, led by Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Production Tony Steyger, used the latest HD cameras.

Read more on the Solent website