Talk from Ollie Allgrove

Ollie Allgrove come into school to have a chat with us about who he works for and what he does. He works for Passion Pictures, which is an independant production company. They mainly produce feature films, TV commercials, nature documentaries and music videos. 
I found his talk interesting as I learned things I didnt know about the industry, such as sometimes there will need to be more than one director if the film has animation as they will need a completely new director for the animation side of things as they all specialise in different areas. I also thought it was interesting when he was talking about music videos, He said music videos only used to be played on TV, however they started to die out a little bit until youtube came along, which gave artists their own voice and then the videos become available for people to download and watch not only on their TV, but they could also download it and watch it on their mobile phones and tablets. Finally, I found it interesting when he talked about the band they produced a music video for with barely any budget, but the director liked the idea of a man jumping off a building, however this was going to be way over their budget as they would have to hire a stunt man etc, so instead, they tied a camera to some helium balloons and created some fake legs and it gave the same effect- this was interesting to listen to especially as we are creating music videos with not really any budget, it makes you think alot more creatively.