Teresa Jozef
Education/Training: 2007 – Present
50 Meakin Estate Rothsay Street SE14QW London 07843 138 799 teresajozef@yahoo.com
London South Bank University - Digital Photography (BA) My course is concerned with the issues of photography, culture and multicultural society. My chosen modules primarily focused on social research, means of modern digital photography and the social structure of modern art. Throughout my course social theories were put into practice through numerous case studies, workshops and assignments
2005 – 2006
I am hard working person and my long term experience in service industry has taught me to cope well under pressure and maintain the best standard. At the same time I have learned how to provide best customers service, I am well organized and got strong communication skills. I am very motivated to learn new things. I believe that both my skills and personal attributes match demands you seek for and that I would be able to effectively contribute to the team and company. I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss this with you and look forward to hearing from you soon.
London College of Communication-Access to Interior Design I enrolled on this year long Access course whilst working full-time. My modules included: Interior Design, Architecture, Garden Design, Art, New Media and Photography. I have completed the one year course with good results.
2004 – 2005
TGB Learning- Pitman ESOL This one year course helped me learn advanced office IT skills and improve all aspects of my English.
1999-2001
College of Economics- Polish Diploma
1994-1999
Liceum Zawodowe, High School- GCSE equivalent
Employment History: 2006 – Present
Royal Opera House My duties include operating computer system, supervising other team-members, stock taking as well as cashing up the tills and producing daily reports. My post also requires me to deal with customer’s queries or complaints
2005 – 2006
Thistle Hotels – Tower Bridge I was responsible for a bar operations. My duties included key staff basics, control of tills, working in an international team, handling money and support of member of staff. This role also involves keeping the bar clean, tidy and well stocked and taking pride in delivering a first class service.
2004 – 2007
Namco Station – County Hall At Namco Station I was responsible for customer service, handling money, use of tills, dealing with stock and working in international team.
Qualifications: Health & Safety; Fire Health & Safety; Food & Safety; Coaching Skills; DDA-Disability Discrimination Act; FNB Intercontinental Shop, requisition system; MS Office;
February 05 2009 Nathan T Heys Link Productions 91 Bricklane The Old Truman Brewery E16QL Dear Mr. T Heys I am second year student of BA Digital Photography at Lon don South Bank University and am researching employment opportunities for work placement. I very much appreciate your volunteering to help students with job placement, and I hope that your will help me too by provide me with some experience. I am particularly interested in still photography and understand that your company is doing videos and films production that’s why I know this will be great opportunity for me to get the place. I am also interested in learning about all aspect of film industry. I very much appreciate your time and consideration of my request, and I look forward to talking with you. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Teresa Jozef 50 Meakin Estate Rothsay Street SE1 4QW teresajozef@yahoo.com
For my placement I have been accepted to a film and music video production company under the name “Link Productions” based in Brick lane. Before I started my work placement didn’t have any previous experience as a still photographer and to be honest I didn’t really know what to expect and how this would go. Anyway, I was happy to get the opportunity to work for them and I was looking forward to starting my job. During my work experience I was able to take part in various projects from casting music videos to short film. I had the opportunity to take lots of photos on this projects which were used by the production company and artist. For my personal project I chose to concentrate on the problems small companies face in times of recession. I noticed that to save money or to avoid spending money they employ a small number of people for their projects and also choose for the shoots places that are free like someone’s home or studio, but with a blue screen, which also saves money for them because finishing touches in videos are done in post production.
For my first piece of work I was invited to a casting and my role as a photographer was to take photos of the actors that came for auditions for Camille Sims video called “Years�. The audition took place in a Brick Lane office and doing the audition was only the artist, director and producer Nathan Thays and I. They decided which actor would be best for the role, but they used my photographs to compare them in the act.
The second job I did was the shooting of the music video, to do this we went to a studio based at Ravensbourne College. In this studio was a blue screen, which is perfect for post production work. On the set worked only six people including the artist, actor, director, camera man, person responsible for lighting and myself. To get a 2 minute long video we spent 10 hours in the studio.
The next project they did was a short film called “Heroin (e)”. The movie is only 15 minutes long but to get this done we spent two days shooting. On the first day we all gathered in the home of the Link Production’s owner. More people were involved in this project; the crew was between 25-30 because they needed actors, makeup artist, sound technicians, costumes designers and much more... For the second day of shooting we met at the park near Elephant and Castle where we spent around 4 hours shooting. Afterwards we all went to Lilian Baileys (The Old School) where we continued to work till late into the night. This film will be shown at film festivals like Berlin, San Francisco or Cannes.
The last project I did with Link Production was a music video for an American rock band call “In this moment”. This is the biggest and most important project because the work they do is for Century Media Records and EMI Records, which are internationally known record companies. The premiere of the video will be the Download Festival 2009 at Donington Park this summer and the song is a cover of the Blondie song “Call me”. To work on this video we went to TT Visual studio in Camden Town. In this studio we also used a blue background for shooting. Fewer people worked on this set than “Heroin(e)”, because the role of actors was taken by the band. The crew was around ten people and they were very professional even though most of them were young they had previous experience working on music videos. To do this project we spent 14 hours at the studio, but it was a really pleasant day because they were all lovely people.
For me as a photographer the most work I did was during post production, it took me a few long days after each project to edit all the photos, but it was worth it because they were all happy with my performance and we will continue our cooperation in the future. I also had the opportunity to meet new people and make contacts which can be helpful in work, plus I had a really good time doing this work.
Some of the photos I took are uploaded on http://twitpic.com/photos/TeresaJozef, which everyone can see and leave me comments, something that would be really helpful for my future work. . I also use my university project as a my portfolio which you find under link http://teresa.clickgarden.net/index.html. Enjoy my work.