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San Francisco, Ca, Us

London, Gb

Over the years, Casual Films has produced over 20,000 films for some of the world's largest, most challenging and exciting companies. We've grown to include nine offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Melbourne, Sydney, Barcelona and Hong Kong. We still try to stay true to our core ethos: working with great people, producing great films and making our clients happy by surpassing their expectations.Casual's first commission, back in 2006, was travel video blogs for Expedia with a couple of camcorders and a laptop. Despite this being the early days for online video, we realised that traditional methods for making business films were too time consuming and expensive for the digital world. We started pitching our lightweight, high quality approach to other brands.Our work won Best Work at the Recruitment Advertising Awards in both 2009 and 2011 - the premier event in the industry. That saw the company take a big leap into the world of recruitment marketing and employee comms - a world we've made our home.

London, Gb

London, Gb

Nashville, Tn, Us

For most people the way into the creative industries is via a three or six month unpaid internship. This limits access to all but the significantly privileged. This theme is reflected by the limited socio-economic backgrounds among those working for production, creative and media companies. If our industry is the mouthpiece for business and culture, how can it be representative if it fails to properly reflect the views, ideas and backgrounds that make up our great nation?The Casual Academy exists to broaden access to the media industry. It provides 18 to 25 year olds with hands-on film training while making films for charities. This training is provided by filmmakers who mentor them through the production of a film for a small local charity. As a result the charity gets a promotional film and the young people get a piece for their showreel, and the experience of working to a brief from a real client.The course is designed to give the young people experience of the four main roles in the production process. Namely: creative/scriptwriter, producer, director, editor. The finished film is then presented to the charity at a premiere, which is attended by the young people’s friends and family. There is then a further career advice session to help them understand where to go next.

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London, Gb

I started running on the floor - delivering scripts to the presenters and escaping moments before the cameras went live. I then started a production based role, working my way up to AP on the bridge to daytime television, producing a wide range of interviews, from Ben Fogel to Noddy Holder. I left to film the Mongol Rally for online travel company Expedia.co.uk.

Pgdip, Television Current Affairs Journalism

2:1, History And Politics

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