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James Watson Bridge

44 Meadowside, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 5QE

bridg333@googlemail.com

07799 086 147

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Profile:

As a current advertising and design postgraduate student at Leeds University, I am hoping to pursue a career in the ever growing and thriving sector of film/TV marketing, most specifically creative advertising. The course is set up very much like an agency team. We are given different brands in which to create sales proposals and campaigns for. These are compounded through extensive research into the product, brand, target market and competitors within a team environment. By analysing this data and applying it to business processes, we form sale strategies and pitch in a client-based scenario. I relish learning and thrive in situations where I am required to help others learn skills. Any experiences that I have under my belt are a development of my strong identity yet I am keen at engaging in new skills and experiences with focus and vigour. These skills and experiences I translate to others through the way that I am engaging in my presentation of ideas alongside my charismatic delivery. I enjoy working in a team environment and the challenge of ensuring smooth cooperation in busy and highly stressful environments.

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Skills:

  • Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe Lightroom, Avid Media Composer

  • High familiarity with Windows and Mac packages including MS Office (Excel, Word, Ppt, Outlook etc.)

  • Well versed in photographic and filmic knowledge

  • Skilled in graphic design, motion graphics, image manipulation and drawing

  • Extensive use of filming equipment including Blackmagic Camera

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Work Experience: 

Design Intern at OneFish TwoFish - Summer 2016

  • Worked first hand as member of design team on production of an advert for aimed at One Fish Two Fish’s image and the company’s role.

  • Researched brands, trends, aesthetics and cultural underpinnings from a range of materials from a range of mediums such as films and art.

  • Brainstormed ideas and displayed them effectively through mood boards, story boards to pitch briefs effectively with the agency team and clients.

  • Created high quality content for social media, print and online.

  • Shadowed two industry professionals in client meetings and pitches.

  • Used the design tools to organise the layout of adverts and the graphics involved.

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Video Editor at JJ Marketing - Summer 2016

  • Researched the company and its history in order to make informed insights relating to a new video advertisement that they wanted made that had the objective of displaying the company’s roles.

  • Analysed the company’s prior advertisements that concerned themselves with this topic and ads from other companies that aimed to do this.

  • Brainstormed the ways that the company’s roles could be shown in a video medium.

  • Discussed with the agency team the contents of the ad and finalised a storyboard that showed effectively the growth of their clients when working with JJ marketing through the symbolism of a tree being grown and nurtured.

  • Produced portfolios and treatments for the company’s content.

  • Familiarised myself with the following up of distributed media such as the maintaining of social media marketing projects, the analysis of feedback from these platforms and bringing these two together to form new marketing strategies.

  • Used various programmes such as Photoshop, Aftereffects and Premier to create the video

 

Reporter for Henley Standard (http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/) - Summer 2013

  • Involved with interviews for a range of contacts.

  • Assisted a writer on a trip to visit Antony Worrall Thompson The Greyhound pub in Peppard to conduct an interview with him about his donation to the diabetes charity (Henley Standard. 2013)

  • Assisted a writer on a trip to a court case in Oxford to take photo’s and report on a case concerning indecent exposure.

  • Researching different topics and stories through a collection of different medias and formats of both primary and secondary sources.

  • Went through the papers archives to cross check information from past articles that were to be used in a current one.

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Web Designer at Earth Trust – Summer 2011

  • Helped with organising the layout of various webpages.

  • Created a poster to be put around the local area.

  • Helped with the conservation of the local area in constructing fences to contain certain wildlife from a patch.

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Director and Creator of ‘Dance For Me’ (independent short film) – Autumn 2017

  • Camera operator – listed what equipment would be needed for each scene, made the shot list, made a storyboard with camera angles, worked with the director and producer to create the right look in the cinematography, carried equipment around the shoot, set up the correct lighting.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/897246632/dance-for-me?ref=user_menu      

      

Part of street team for Super Friendz Marketing for World Island Festival / NME Magazine distribution              

Waiter at The Swan  / Royal Oak Tilehurst / Fox and Hound   2013 -2015                                                                        

 

Education:

University: Currently studying for a Masters in Advertising and Design, with 2:1 in BA Hons Film and Photography and Media at Leeds University

  • Modules in Screenwriting and Film Production have taught me practical skills in visual storyboarding and presentation, meaning that I am well versed in conveying concepts to an agency team. These modules in conjunction with work experience at multiple marketing and design companies have given me a lot of experience with graphics, photography, film and writing software and equipment

A2: Art – A. Photography Pre U (pre university qualification higher in calibre than an A2 qualification) – A*, English Literature B

Charitable Work: Lourdes Pilgrimage July 2013 - Catering for the physically and mentally handicapped

 

Websites:

Marketing and Advertising work: https://workingsofadude.blogspot.co.uk/            

Online Marketing Portfolio: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2372332733277154988#allposts/src=sidebar

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bridge-371235119/

Photography: https://photosfromaparralleluniverse.blogspot.com/

Film: https://2cut101.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Cited link

 

http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/charities/83490/tv-chefs-dish-for-diabetics.html

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