Tom Lewis

WELCOME TO DALEWONKS. DAVE TOM AND JAMES, THE COMPANY THAT BEGAN IN 1886 TO RIVAL COCA COLA! AS IT TURNED OUT COCKE SMASHED US IN THE COMPETITION SO WE TURNED TO FILM MAKING. DURING WORLD WAR II WE WERE PUT IN CHARGE IN KEEPING SWANS IN LINE AND DEALING WITH SWAN ETHICS. WE WERE OFTEN CRITICISED ON THESE ETHICS AND IT HAS BECOME A HARD TOPIC FOR PEOPLE TO DROP. WE OFTEN CARRY THIS CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT MATTER INTO OUR FILMS. SO FEEL FREE TO CLICK THE VIDEO PAGE AND WATCH OUR LATEST MOVIE WHICH DEA LS WITH TOUCHY SUBJECTS LIKE BLASHPEMY, SEXISM AND THE OBSCENE! WE ARE DALEWONKS

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

My name is David McFadyen. I am 19 years of age. I am applying for a course in Film & TV or Film Studies. I have chosen this option as I have always had a passion for film since I was a child. My interested started by watching movies constantly and then wanting to know how they were made as that always intrigued me.

My influences being Directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppolla and Dario Argento. And I would say that I have a vast and broad knowledge of cinema.

I started to research facts about films in my spare time with things like who the director and writer were etc. In High school I chose Media Studies as on of my subject choices to try and gain more knowledge about the industry. When I was 15 I was offered the opportunity with my Media Class to take part in a ten-day film course in Bournemouth University. We were required to make a 5-minute film and were taught how to operate professional cameras, editing software sound stages, lighting and boom microphone operating. I learned skills in Avid editing suite and also how to cut and put together 16mm film.

I personally took interest in being behind the camera and the idea of being a Director has always been my passion and is what I want in life as a career choice. And I hope that if I am accepted into a Film course it can help me further my ambition to pursue a career in the Film industry.

I have experience from having secured a placement on two film courses, one in Bournemouth University and another in Caerleon University throughout my time as a High School Student. My role in Bournemouth was Director, Co-writer and Editor. At Caerleon I had to act but again was the editor of the finished product. In both courses the finished films were shown at a presentation for family and friends and also put on a DVD. They are also available on YouTube.

Having the role of director in Bournemouth meant that the supervision of the crew when we were making the film was in my hands, and any problems that were encountered would have to be resolved by me. Such as sometimes some of the crew would have a disagreement about something, I would get them both to hear each other’s idea and find a middle ground with something they both could agree on.

I had to decide what camera set ups to use for each scene and tell the actors to do another take if the first wasn’t exactly satisfactory. In my own time I have organised my own films, which I devised with friends. This helps to show that I have good organisation skills.

I have good communication skills and have always worked well as part of a team and also as an individual. I am a very confident person and this has always helped me to get on with new people no matter what culture or background they are from.

I have developed my skills over time as I have been studying Media for 6 years. I had 2 years in GCSE, 2 in 6^th form and now I am currently in my final year in College studying an Extended National Diploma interactive Media and aiming for top grades. Throughout these years I have developed skills in programs such as Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash and GarageBand. With knowledge of this software this broadens my options if being a director doesn’t happen for me as I could apply for other things such as being the creator of marketing for films, editing and coding websites for advertising campaigns. My main inspiration is to be a director that could bring something new to the table as in my opinion most of the stuff in Hollywood these days are just the same ideas being used over and over again. And I think I could bring something new and fresh to the course.

Website Research

http://wheelsofsteel.net

Wheels of Steel is a side project by Scott Schiller, a Canadian who works at Yahoo!  And mixes photography, sound and code together. He The project uses SoundManager 2 and other F/OSS-type programs. It started in February 2011 as a small CSS experiment, and over 12 weeks between evenings and weekends, evolved to cover most of the capabilities of a dual-turntable and mixer uses a few HTML5 elements in the markup, but mostly CSS3, the mixer and the turntable pitch sliders are all in CSS. The audio scratch, pitch and EQ effects are created in Adobe Flash. He wanted to create a turntable based project for years but found that it wasn’t really practical until the release of CSS3. 

http://goalieplus.com/

This is a website which has been labelled as ‘the best ugliest website ever’ which uses a mix of moving animation, annoying background music, the use of comic sans to write poorly written paragraphs about the site and goalies, a colourful background with non-complimentary coloured fonts and large distracting words and boxes.

The website is not very user friendly and seems to be pretty pointless. Apart from a guestbook there is not much more for a user to do with the webpage.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

A boy that needed money to help him pay for university created the million-dollar homepage. The idea behind the website was to make $1m by selling a million pixels for $1 each.

“So, everyone is welcome to buy my pixels, which are available in 100-pixel 'blocks' (each measuring 10x10 pixels). You will see the homepage is divided into 10,000 of these 100-pixel blocks (hence there are 1,000,000 pixels in total). The reason for selling them in 100-pixel blocks is because anything smaller would be too small to display anything meaningful.

You can buy as many pixels as you like, as long as there are some available (see the live stats in the top right corner of the page). When you buy some pixels, you can then display an image/ad/logo of your choice in the space you have purchased. You can also have the image click through to your own website. However, no obscene or offensive images are allowed.

The pixels you buy will be displayed on the homepage permanently. The homepage will not change. Using some of the money I make from the site, I guarantee to keep it online for at least 5 years, but hopefully much longer. I want it to become a kind of internet time capsule. So, in the long run, I believe the pixels will offer good value. You will have a piece of internet history!”