ElLIe Morgan

Films and Projects

Highly ambitious and motivated, my broad range of experiences give me a great range of transferrable skills, a good all-rounder who can approach tasks with dignity. Bringing wisdom in my years, with an ever-lasting youthful enthusiasm and passion for creativity. A level headed team player, with a caring and sensitive nature I am able to motivate and encourage others. My proactive approach to tasks and can do attitude make me a valuable asset to any team, a problem solver who works well under pressure.

I have been a dedicated and passionate photographer since 2008, my photography always aimed to tell a story, I embarked upon my long term ambition of becoming a filmmaker in 2016 and am currently studying Film and Media Arts Production at UCW to aid me in this ambition.

In 2017 I set up my own travel documentary brand called Explorer Buddies, working in partnership with my husband. Making travel documentaries for our YouTube channel, focusing on our travels in our own hand made camper van. I also write blog articles on our website Explorerbuddies.co.uk.

In a short time I have made some very fast progress. I have achieved over 16k followers on Instagram. We have over 10k subscribers to our YouTube channel, with views of over 40k on our most popular travel documentary. We were signed to a media agent – Media Drum World and an article in the Daily Mail was published telling our story. We were invited to be ambassadors of a handmade camper van festival Camp Quirky in 2018 and again in 2019. We have developed the production values of our films, with each new film we produce, incorporating new filming and editing techniques and improved film making equipment.

The first film I have produced inspired by my previous conceptual photography work. My photography work always aimed to tell a story and I would try to achieve this in stills, I always envisioned my concepts as movies, limited by my technical abilities I would realise these instead as still photographs, I am now taking the opportunity to turn those concepts into moving images.

Copyright permission given, big thanks to Slipmatt for sorting this out for me, you should all go and show his channel @thedjslipmatt some love, also make sure you have this tune in your playlists, it's just celebrated its 25 year anniversary since it entered the UK charts in the top 10!

First mini assignment set for me, in my first year on my UCW Film and Media Arts Production course. Assignment was to capture an everyday event, so the most important event of any day has to be coffee right?

https://elliemorgan.co.uk/

2017 was the year Florence was transformed, from a dated 90's factory fit Talbot Express to the charming, homely Camper Van we see today. The build was finished in June 2016, taking just 6 weeks of dedication and hard work to complete, on a very low budget.

Florence and the Morgans are back! In this series we road trip around Scotland, taking in beautiful scenery, finding epic free park ups and enjoying Vanlife in Florence, our 1990 Rustic self conversion Fiat Ducato. In this episode we set off on our journey, and discover Loch Lomond, the stunning drive towards Glencoe, Loch Etive and the Isle of Skye.

See many more travel Vlogs on our Explorer Buddies YouTube Channel

Find more details about me and my work experience (including a CV download) at my website EllieMorgan.co.uk

My coursework blog can be viewed here elliemorgansite.wordpress.com