Buliding Employability Skills task 3

My CV:






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Building Employability Skils task 2

Application for mPOWER





link to interview: http://www.youtube.com/user/mpowerproject2010


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mFEST in photos

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RED- the fusical

Excerpt from my Cv...coming soon!

Associate producer: I was a lead role working directly with Janet Robertson Director of YMTS and creative director of RED. I was at the center of the creative process and had to pull together all of the practical requirements. It was a role of great responsibility and was very challenging; I managed 3 sell-out performances at mFEST and lead the production team consisting of the Stage manager, DSM and ASM/ production runners. As part of this role I had to monitor the progress of the Associate Artistic Directors, find solutions to problems that occur along the way, establish an effective method of communication between the production departments and to work with the General Manager and the professional facilitators to make decisions over the production budget and to manage it closely.

RED was a real privilege to be a part of as it combined so many artistic mediums and it was great to see it all come together as I felt the show we devised was unique and highly creative.

red performance photo:



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Documentary Team

A big part of my mPOWER experience has been being a member of the team that documents the festival and the process that the project went through to get to the end point. Working with small majority was great and I learned a lot from Alan, and Linda the evaluation officer. Working in such a changeable environment was really fun and filming commissions such as motion house and la fura were definite perks ;)
I also got to develop my interview skills by interviewing many of the actors, directors and young people involved in the project!




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'Free?'- review

My colleges and friends from mPOWER- Rhian Campbell and Fraser Morrison directed a show in mFEST entitled ‘Free?’. This show was adapted by Fraser from a book written by amnesty international. I acted in this show during the festival and here is a review that it received in the Stirling Observer:

AN adaptation of four short stories from a book of the same name published by Amnesty International this play was an invaluable reminder of the many forms that human rights abuses can take - and the many places they can happen.

Mixing light and dark moments on a stripped down set even the cast wear only black and white, ensuring the focus is entirely on the words at hand.

It’s an amazing achievement for macrobert Young Theatre’s Fraser Morrison, the 13 year old behind the adaptation which packs a fair punch - especially in the last, expertly choreographed sequence, warning of where things might go in future, and the danger of passivity.

This was a great achievement as I have never acted in a show of this caliber before and it sold out both nights that it was on.

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Revised- the premier

The culmination of a 5 month project resolved on the 27th of July, the premier of ‘Revised’ took place in the macrobert film house to a filled out house audience of parents, mpowerers, friends and the professional mentors that helped us along the way.

It was such a great opportunity to see the finished project on such a large scale; I was really pleased to see that all of the hard work we had put in had payed off into a film that we could all be proud of. As this was my first film of this scale it provided me with the drive to go on and continue to learn more about the area of filming, and to hopefully pursue a career on that path.

As I produced and was the 2nd AAD on this film the experience that I gained was second to none, and I really can’t wait for the next film!

The crew:


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