My beloved friends are getting married. Always an exciting occasion. Even more so when they ask you to build them a website! The brief was to have an online invitation. Something more personal and bespoke than a simple Facebook invite, but similar in that it’s somewhere to put all the essential details guests can log [...]
At Lewes District Council, we wanted to use other methods of communication to ‘spread the word’. A combination of promoting council services, plus messages and themes to pass back to the residents. One missed opportunity we hadn’t explored was to use our vehicles to deliver these messages. The council has 12 refuse trucks criss-crossing the [...]
As part of my role at Lewes District Council, I’m working on a development of the Council’s website lewes.gov.uk. The development began in February 2009 and is ongoing. My role for this project is to manage and improve website content. I’m working with my colleagues in IT to overhaul and develop the website as a [...]
I write and issue press releases for Lewes District Council, plus handle any media requests as a result of these being issued. The subjects covered range across the breadth of services the council offers – which is vast. Our aim naturally is to get coverage in the local, regional and national media – which we have [...]
I taught second-year journalism students how to make short radio features using Adobe Audition. These packages were news-focused and often contained a mix of interviews, voiceover, sound effects and music.
In December ’08, I was asked to host a lecture covering the various aspects of Online Journalism to first-year journalism students at the University of Northampton.
I recorded a series of acoustic sessions with bands and solo musicians, exclusivley for the Weekender at the studios in BBC Radio Northampton. Here are some examples, happy listening…
I created a the audio feature ‘Introducing…’ profiles, covering local bands introducing themselves and their music to the show’s audience. This was a series of band profile introducing local artists to the audience. The style involved the band themselves talking direct to the audience about their history, inspirations, future plans etc… It also tied in [...]
I produced new branding guidelines, portfolio and job-sheet templates for building company Aylward EMS The new company portfolio was to be sent out to perspective customers and needed to portray the company’s range of work quickly and simply. Once designed, it needed to be updated by the company themselves (rather than a designer) in future [...]
I interviewed many musicians, DJs and music professionals during my time working on The Weekender at BBC Northampton. Some of them were household names, others not; some were friendly, others not! Here are some examples…