Rowan W

Rowan Wallace is a filmmaker student based in Bristol ,UK. He has now just finished his second year of three at Boomsatsuma's BA ( Hons ) Filmmaking production degree course based a in Bristol. This course works with big industry partners such as BBC HNU, The Bottle Yard Studios, Films@59, VI Rental and Evolutions films. So far on the course Rowan has been able to gain new skills and knowledge with up to date equipment as well as speaking directly with industry professionals to understand their background of how they got to where they are now. Boomsatuma university has allowed Rowan to discover a wide range of roles in the Film and TV i...

ndustry from creating multiple short film where he has been able to adopt the role of : Boom op, Editor, BTS Videographer, Camera op, 2nd AC, production manger and script writer. In amongst all of this the university are always teaching about how to write and work professionally order to help students get employment on graduation. That is something which has made a big impact on him, as since half way though the first year he found himself getting multiple paid jobs as a runner and marshal working on both feature and TV comical shoots which have since aired on TV. Though work experience he has been able to move into the pathway of working as a 2nd AC and he is now in the possess of finding out more about this role and hoping help provide himself and his own personal equipment to help assist productions over the summer of 2023 to continue work as a 2nd AC. As well as having more work to do over summer behind the camera he has signed up with a casting agency to be an extra for film and TV in front of the camera. This is so he is able to gain more experience of being in the filmmaking production environment on set and to explore the vast and wide range of departments in the industry which may be in need of new trainees. While he owns and operates a LumixFZ330 for photography and BTS videography use, he has also been able to collect a range of production equipment from customisable slates to camera rigs which are available for hire to help assist production shoots.

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