What is your role at BFBS?
I'm a Digital Video Producer and soon to be a podcaster within the BFBS Creative team.
What brought you to BFBS?
Having served a long career with the army, I was always aware of the customer-facing services that BFBS offer, and I was fortunate to be accepted onto the BFBS Academy HNC course in media production. Following this, I joined BFBS as part of the video team, which is part of BFBS Creative.
Describe a typical working day?
There is no typical day on the BFBS Creative team – our work projects are extremely varied from commercial to homegrown content.
Commercially, we work with clients to create videos, so I might be identifying the audience they want to engage or the message they want to deliver, plan the content, and then scripting and storyboarding the final content, so a plan and production schedule can be agreed.
Homegrown content are the programs we create for our own channels – our passion projects! I’m lucky to be part of a team that encourages us to seek out stories that we want to tell and to follow this through.
What’s your favourite thing about life at BFBS?
What’s it like working with the armed forces?
Having come from a long career in the army, the armed forces is safe ground for me. But, I now get to see it from the other side - often through a lens - and I get to appreciate just what a special group of people they are. They can only be described as extraordinary, but it's often just routine to them.
What are your interests outside work?
For this fast paced environment, trends change so quickly, so I’m usually watching and learning about the content that other people create! I’m also a qualified ski instructor, but I’m still looking for a project to combine these interests!