The Resume DIANA BERNARDO
MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST
Multimedia journalist seeks job COVER LETTER I am a storyteller. I watch, I listen, I absorb the world. And I write, I photograph, I film and I edit. My need to comunnicate was first expressed through videos I started doing over a decade ago. What started out as a hobby went on to become my passion and I soon realized what I wanted to do with my life.
So, I went to college and studied communication. Soon after graduation, I started working on a cultural television show, Cartaz das Artes, at TVI. From Portuguese television, I moved on to Paris and started working at Lusopress, a Portuguese web-tv based in France. For four years, I told the stories of the Portuguese community living in that country.
I interviewed, I filmed and I edited videos, all at once and all by myself. I interviewed artists, politicians, businessmen, or just people in the streets. I was chief editor of a community magazine and I co-wrote three books with biographies of prominent figures in the community. I am also a traveller. It’s my favourite way of growing up and one
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE May 2014 to Jul 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Assistant Producer at Companhia de Ideias
Assistant Producer at the daily talk show “Bem-Vindos”, broad-
of the best manners to discover new stories. By the age of four I was already going on extensive road trips with my family. Now, I travel either with company or by myself. I use planes, trains, cars and my own two feet. I’ve been to all Western Europe and to the United States and I don’t want to stop here. My next goal is to create a travel blog. Stay tuned! casted at RTP África. Show made with and for Portuguese-speaking African countries. Responsible for content production. Tasks include looking for people to interview in the show and search information about them. Assist on video edition of news broadcasted in the show. Responsible for the feature “Fitness Hut”.
LANGUAGES PORTUGUESE FLUENT ENGLISH FLUENT FRENCH FLUENT SPANISH GOOD LEVEL 2010 to 2014 Lisbon, Portugal and Paris, France Journalist / Camera operator / Video and sound editor at Lusopress
Simultaneously charged of interviewing, filming and editing video features broadcasted in the company’s web-tv. Editorial director of Lusopress Maga-
zine, the company’s monthly magazine. Co-author of three books “Portugueses de Valor”, featuring biographies of prominent community personalities. Partly responsible
EDUCATION 2012 Master in Audiovisual and Multimedia
Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Lisbon, Portugal Some classes included: Audiovisual and
for the company’s Facebook page. 2009 Queluz, Portugal Journalist / Producer (intern) at TVI
Reading and replying to Multimedia Project Management; Audiovisual Communication; Sound Design; Visual Cultures; Consumer Research; Identity Design; Television Systems Compared. Final thesis named “Portuguese televisions online - study on the presence of informative contents in the websites of RTP, SIC and TVI”
emails.Elaboration of an agenda with all cultural activities happening in the country. Interviewing people and writing the texts to features broadcasted in the show. 2009 B.A. in Communication Sciences
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Some classes included: Television Journalism; Journalism Genres; Journalistic Production; Economics; Political Communication.
INTERESTS Traveling, travel journalism, video production, video editing, television, new media, social media, SEO.
Diana Bernardo 07806889440 dianafbernardo@gmail.com dianafbernardo
PROFESSIONAL FORMATION 2013 Social Media Management at Cenjor, Lisbon, Portugal 2010 Edition in Avid, Camera Operation and Written journalism at Cenjor 2009 Creative Writing, Documentary and Travel Writing at Escrever Escrever, Lisbon, Portugal
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Urquhart Court, 109 Park Road BR3 1QL Beckenham, Kent www.linkedin.com/in/dianafbernardo www.vimeo.com/user32063515
Savvy in Mac and PC. Experienced in Final Cut Pro. Knowledge of Avid. Basic knowledge of Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. Social media management knowledge: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.
DIANA BERNARDO
MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST
Traveling is mandatory I’m not writing this article now because it’s summertime and, therefore, the travelling period for many. I’m writing it now because it is always something to bear in mind: traveling is a must. A very pleasant activity for many, traveling can be, for others, a real source of unnecessary problems and fatigue. Some people are interested in getting to know places, regions and countries. Some others think the best and only acceptable way to spend some days off is lying on a sandy beach with the blue, wide ocean ahead. Whatever your opinion might be, I insist: traveling is a must. Maybe this is just the opinion of someone who would spend her life on the road, if possible. But truth is that I do think that those who travel see life with different eyes, have a bigger openness and are more sensitive to the unknown than those who stay at home. But traveling isn’t just moving; being a tourist isn’t, necessarily, the same as being
a traveler. Traveling is to let yourself be touched by space and time, it’s being curious, discovering, tasting new cultures, hearing unfamiliar sounds, understanding foreign cultural habits, it’s to learn words that describe emotions that can’t be felt in your own language. Traveling like this is enriching yourself, it’s the most pleasant way to grow up and gain perspective, the easiest manner to become a more open and tolerant person. Unfortunately, not everyone has the chance to travel. It involves time, money and, sometimes, some capacity to pull yourself away from daily routine and responsibilities. However, there are those people who never left their hometown and, still, are born travelers. Others spend ridiculous amounts of money to get back home being the same person they were when they left. The trip shouldn’t be only physical. There’s the emotional and human aspect of it. Traveling is chang-
“Everything changes just so everything stays the same, but it’s you who will never be the same again (…) The destination within you is unknown but you let yourself go because that’s what you came for. To be changed” ing. Quoting Gonçalo Cadilhe, the most well known Portuguese traveler, “Everything changes just so everything stays the same, but it’s you who will never be the same again (…) The destination within you is unknown but you let
yourself go because that’s what you came for. To be changed”. If the idea I’ve been presenting doesn’t make any sense to you, I suggest the reading of Jack Kerouac’s “On the road”. A true hymn to the travel, it was, for me, a
huge contribution to this feeling of restlessness – and here’s one of those words that have no possible translation in another language. One of those words you learn by traveling. Even if it’s through the pages of a book.
European Voluntary Service
a jump out of the fishbowl
These young people are dynamic, adventurous and solidary. For a few months, they decided to switch their native country for another one in Europe and dedicate their time to volunteering. These are life stories told in several languages. “My mum thought I wanted to abandon her”. This is how Ana Teresa, 27, describes her mother’s reaction to the news that she would go to Serbia eight months to volunteer in an environmental organization. “But, with time, she realized this was something important for me and, therefore, for her”. Ana Teresa describes herself as a very flexile person. She was born
in Barreiro but she had lived in Beja, Algarve and Coimbra and she had always wanted to go abroad because she felt that “our borders, no matter how broad they are, are very limitative”. Since 2006, she was volunteering at Rota Jovem, a juvenile association based in Cascais, which led her to participate in several international exchanges for one or two weeks. But that was never enough time for her, so she would always stay longer and travel the area she was at. One day, she went on an exchange to Bosnia and, from there, she travelled to Serbia. She ended up getting a job picking raspberries and, when she
went back to Portugal, she knew it wouldn’t take long before she’d go back to the Balkans. In October 2008, she arrived to Serbia as part of the European Voluntary Service (EVS), a project integrated in the program “Youth in Action”, promoted by the European Union. “The goal is to develop solidarity and promote an active citizenship, as well as a mutual understanding between the youth”, explains Rosa Ferreira, executive at Agência Juventude em Acção, responsible for the project in Portugal. Ana Teresa wanted to participate in the project of the working camps that had seduced her in previous trips. But upon the
arrival on Serbia, that wasn’t possible. Still, she didn’t put down her arms and participated in the projects held by the organization that hosted her. Furthermore, alongside with other volunteers in that country, she created a project that turned into reality several ideas and wishes. “The great lessons come from the problems we are faced with”, she assures. Not everything went well for Sara Andrade, 24, either, voluntary at Leagmbiente, in Prato, Italy. Her first three weeks of EVS were spent in the mountain with another three volunteers because their accommodation wasn’t ready. Only after that did they move to Prato and were able to start working. Sara
contributed to children environmental education, organized international youth camps and, in her volunteering vacation, she was nominated to coordinate a refugees camp in Rome, which she accepted. “It was a big proof of trust in me”, she admits. It was also the opportunity to go back to Rome, where she had spent a year before, as an Erasmus student. When she went back to Prato, the situation got worse. “It was a dead period. September and October were difficult months and I wanted to come back already”, she says. Besides not having work to do, the volunteers also had some tensions between them. But the Portuguese girl took the best out
of the situation: “I learnt a lot, I learnt to deal with this, with the fact that not everybody gets along well”.
A jump out of the fishbowl Sven Retoré, 28, Belgian, volunteer in Portugal, didn’t have any integration problems. “I’ve talked to some people who had integration problems but I’ve had none! Of course, I already had a social network here, through my girlfriend, which made the integration easy”. Sven had met his Portuguese girlfriend in Czech Republic, when both of them were on an Erasmus program.
in Cascais, to start his EVS experience. Upon his arrival, he had to adapt to the country’s culture. One of the things that caught his attention was the fact that people parked everywhere. “I’ve always learnt that you park where you’re allowed to, not in a second row. Here people even park in roundabouts”.
had the chance to get out. “The fish inside can’t see the limitations. It is only when it gets out that it gains a new perspective. When you go back home, you look to the fishes – your friends and family – from outside the bowl and that gives you an uncomfortable feeling”. Later on, Sven came back to Portugal and
it had been “a mix of a lot of good and bad things”. A few months later, she went abroad again, this time to Barcelona, to participate in the Leonardo DaVinci program. It was there that she had her reflection moment. When she came back from Barcelona, she finished her Master in Migrations and Eth-
“The great lessons come from the problems we are faced with”, she assures. But the decision to come to Portugal had nothing to do with her. One day, when Sven was in Belgium, doing the 4th year of his History BA, she got a call from a friend. “She asked me if I had anything to do that evening because there was going to be a briefing session about volunteering abroad. I had nothing to do, so I went with her”. When he got out of the session, he went searching the available projects and, seven months later, in September 2005, he arrived to Rota Jovem,
He adds: “it’s not that it is bad but your idea of what’s normal changes”. With the end of his EVS experience, Sven went back to Belgium and he says that he suffered a reverse cultural shock. “You go home and you see that the world around you hasn’t changed, people are still living their lives, having the same conversations”. But Sven wasn’t the same anymore. He explains what he went through by saying that, in Belgium, he was a fish in a bowl and, with the EVS, he
nowadays he works at the institution where he volunteered, Rota Jovem. Ana Teresa and Sara are his coworkers. All of them are still connected to international volunteering, as coordinators.
They are who they used to be… and something more When Sara got back to Portugal, she just wanted to be with the people she loved. She didn’t want to think about her EVS experience because
nicities at the same time as she devoted time to volunteering, this time in her own country. It was a project of community theatre in Chelas and Sara explains her reasons to embrace it: “I didn’t go there thinking I would be helping the poor people in the area. They have a lot to offer, you get a lot more than you give, it’s really worth it”. After coming back from Serbia, Ana Teresa didn’t volunteer anymore, she started working at the place where she used to volunteer before in
“I was incapable of transmitting to people I was with what I had been doing those eight months, what I had learnt, who I had become. You don’t transform yourself but you become who you used to be and something more” Portugal. Upon her arrival, she felt at home but, after some time, she started realizing that this country was not entirely hers, since she had been eight months abroad “I was incapable of transmitting to people I was with what I had been doing those eight months, what I had learnt, who I had become. You don’t transform yourself but you become who you used to be and something more”. Ana Teresa says she stopped jumping into conclusions, she’s more patient now and she doesn’t care so much about what goes wrong. She fed her dream of going abroad, of investing in something, of finding a meaning. And she concludes, “being abroad showed me that we can feel good wherever we are and Portugal might as well be that place”.
Hot Club’s building will be demolished until May The building where (HCP) used to be open is at risk of falling down and it’s going to be demolished until May. The building is unrecoverable but the facade will be preserved to “keep the memory”, assures the responsible from Lisbon’s autarchy, Silva Ferreira. Silva Ferreira also declared that the building “has no chance at all to be kept and there’s even a risk of it falling down”. While it is not demolished, some works will be carried, namely to guarantee the safety of the buildings next to it. The number 39 at Praça da Alegria (Joy Square), that hosted Hot Club of Portugal, is considered a build-
ing of municipal interest, so the facade will be preserved. But all the interior, including the basement where there used to be the jazz club, will be gone, something that left the board of HCP “at shock”. According to Inês Homem Cunha, president of HCP board, it has already been chosen the place at Praça da Alegria where the club will move to, temporarily. However, the board excuses from advancing any further details because it is still waiting for the budget that will be given by the architects, the brothers Aires Mateus. “Only after that will we talk to the Mayor and learn if they will fund the works”, said
"Portugal Hot Club was founded by Luís Villas-Boas, in 1948. It is the oldest nightclub in the country totally devoted to jazz" Inês Homem Cunha. Let it be reminded that the HCP building was burnt in a fire last December. According to Público newspaper, except for the PHC
and a restaurant, the rest of the building was vacant. Meanwhile, HCP hasn’t totally stopped it’s programming and it’s still organizing events in other venues in the Portuguese capital. On 4, 5 and 6th of February, the Swedish-Finish band Kari Ikonen Quartet played at Cabaret Maxime, Fábrica Braço de Prata and Onda Jazz. Portugal Hot Club was founded by Luís Villas-Boas, in 1948, at started functioning in his own house. Later, it was moved to Cabaret Fontória and only after that did it move to the 48m2 basement in the number 39 of Praça da Alegria. Thus, it is the oldest nightclub in the coun-
try totally devoted to jazz. Amongst the founding members there’s photographer Gerardo CastelloLopes, musician Artur Carneiro and Augusto Mayer, who were joined occasionally by partners such as Catherine Deneuve, Alexandre O’Neill and Raúl Solnado. In 62 years, the HCP hosted hundreds of international artists, like Count Basie, Dexter Gordon and Sarah Vaughn and it was also a place where Portuguese musicians from different generations met each other. Amongst them we can name António Pinho Vargas, Mário Laginha, Bernardo Sassetti, Maria João or Júlio Resende, for example.