Jake Britton
About Me
I’m currently studying BA Film and Media Production at UCW because I want to become film director by making my own story than making as a film. I have autism which I want make differences in the film industry because I would like to see more people on autism spectrum by able work in the film industry so that are able to have chance to show there experiences with autism so that we get better representation of autism in media.
Website & YouTube
Films and Projects
Showreel
1st Year
Everyday Activity - Film Production Skills
A short film for the first brief of the year, ‘Everyday Activity’ where I had to make a 3 minutes video about football player thoughts and feeling as walking onto the pitch before the match kick off. I wanted to show how a football player be might feeling before the match is about to kick off.
Documentary Production
A Documentary was second brief of year where I had to do a 9 minute video about Arsenal early history on how the became successful club so that we know what made the famous football club that they are today. I wanted to do this Documentary to teach Arsenal supports about their early history of club so that they are able to get better understanding of the club.
Foreign Residential Project - Film Production Skills
For The Residential project we did a short film which was called The Quiet Artist which was a short film about a photography student who has Autism and selective mutism who on trip with college in Ghent in Belgium. I played the character Claude in the film because I had Autism which meant I bring my experience of having autism so that it could help bring the character to life in the film by showing some of things that the Claude do to help himself to cope when he is overwhelmed by something.
EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA ARTS PROJECT
The third final of brief of the year was the experimental project where I did 25 minutes Interactive tv show where people could send me any question they wanted to the email AskJake22@gmail.com which the question where on powerpoint and I would read them out and then have my own answer for the question.
cv link
Year 2
The Commentator
University Autism Mentor
Arsenal History Documentary
Collaborative projects
Dirigo Film festival
Alistair short film voice over
Quiet Artist Award
Performing Art workshop
Encounter Films Festival