part 1

Question 1

What excites you about this traineeship

Answer 1

• unparalleled opportunity to learn
• prime video pathway is doing something here that no other productuction company is doing, it’s not just that I want to learn it’s that I want to learn from the best
• incredible past placements with this farming life for example, and venture land
• nfts is the best film school, access to masterclasses, formal training as well as learning by being on set
• amazon prime make some of my favourite shows (Clarkson farm and the greatest show never made)
• meet new people, create a community, see and learn as much as possible by doing all these placements whilst having the academy itself as a community and the nfts for masterclasses too
• learn more about departments

Question 2

what shows r u watching

Answer 2

• series 6 of this farming life, although there’s only one episode left in this series I believe, coming out on Monday. I love how beautiful this show is and the escapism on it, of these people who live such a different life to my own and also showing the mystery of where our food comes from
• I’ve just finished watching the greatest show never made a few days ago
• I’m also watching boiling point
• and im really excited to start watching 007 road to a million on Friday because it’s right up my street I love an adventure show and I love James Bond. its exciting to me that Barbara broccoli has been so on board with it as well

Question 3

award that Anna Mayers won

Answer 3

finalist for the ‘Learning Awards’ through her work with Prime Video Pathway

Question 4

film feels so unaccessible

Answer 4

it feels like amazon prime is one of the very few maybe even the only production company and certainly the only streaming service that actually cares about not just bringing in and giving opportunities to people in film but also really training them because that’s what I want I just really want to learn and become a capable and competent member on set or in a production office

Question 5

Jemma marshall job

Answer 5

prime video craft academy manager

Question 6

donna taberer

Answer 6

freelance trainee consultant works mostly with PVP

Question 7

PVP is

Answer 7

prime video pathway

Question 8

Anna Mayers

Answer 8

skills coordinator who I saw is a finalist for the 2024 learning awards like I want to be a part of a traineeship that’s so good it’s being recognised by awards

Question 9

director of nfts

Answer 9

Jon Wardle

Question 10

what do you do at the end?

Answer 10

say thank you personally, go up to them. ask them if you can add them on linked in maybe to keep up with prime video pathway even if I don’t end up being a part of this specific part of it

Question 11

questions you can ask prime video managers

Answer 11

How long have you been working here?
how did you guys come up with these workshops they’re so interesting?
What’s the best part of working here, are you usually based at NFTS?
When did NFTS and Amazon’s relationship begin?
How did you manage going through so many applications has that consumed your workload?

Question 12

q abt amazone and nats

Answer 12

when did their relationship begin?

Question 13

are you interested in scripted and unscripted?

Answer 13

• yes I love both because of their sense of escapism
• I love scripted for the art of the storytelling, world building, character development
• I love unscripted because it’s fascinating you know, often real life can make a story that’s so wild and unbelievable it’s even more interesting than fiction
• I love tv generally, it’s my favourite way of consuming video, more so than films, I think its more satisfying and captivating in its longer format
• gathering round the tv

Question 14

fave shows growing up

Answer 14

Saturday kitchen live, country file, scripted I love graham lineman’s shows father ted and the it crowd even though he’s lost me in recent years with his obsession with targeting the trans community

Question 15

challenges of making scripted tv?

Answer 15

casting location script development
all this takes longer since with unscripted the story is already right there fully formed, you don’t have to worry about believability because it is real
requires more budget
relies on so many people, eg finding the right actor could mean whole thing might not work
link challenges back to departments you’re interested in: production / post production, locations and first ad-ing

Question 16

challenges of making unscripted tv?

Answer 16

• finding the right story, making sure it’s a whole story, it needs an ending or some kind of conclusiveness and satisfying
• getting info from people who are trying to escape stardom
• the morals of it, getting people to agree to it, sometimes agreeing to it without being a part of it
• visually in terms of the filmmaking itself, it’s hard to balance the narrative story that’s an audio with visual components
• like the interviews have to be interspersed with other content like news footage for example, so finding that acquiring the rights for that is a challenge
• if using re-enactments that’s a really fine line to tread because it can often make it a bit naff if done badly, kind of makes a mockery almost if it looks a bit spoof like, also because then it’s like well did you actually want to make a scripted rendition of this rather than unscripted
  link challenges back to departments you’re interested in: production / post production, locations and first ad-ing

Question 17

what do you know about nfts

Answer 17

I know it’s the best film school in the uk. im constantly seeing people who have succeeded in film and television have studied here whether as a post grad diploma or as a masters student. for example I saw how to have sex last week and there was a q and a with Molly manning walker after and it was such an inspiring talk and film and of course googling her I see she went to nfts. I also listened to another interview with her where she talked about how she had to go to nfts to level up. seeing this just shows me how great a film school it is, it has incredible connections and I just really admire their ethos of giving filmmakers a space to improve and be the best they can

Question 18

what do you think of amazon prime

Answer 18

• household staple of mine for years
• love their shows. love Clarkson farm. love greatest show never made. the devils hour. excited for upcoming shows like dead hot and the road to a million
• great variety of film and tv, I think making original content is the best
• I like that they provide other platforms through amazon as well I think that’s really smart, like I started the bfs player trial the other day that was great for getting around to seeing some classics I couldn’t see otherwise
• quality
• champion new stories and different perspectives
• output from each country feels very distinct, with Netflix everything just feels American

Question 18

tell me about a time you worked as a team

Answer 18

• one example of when I worked as a team is when I made a short film that I produced wrote and directed, we had to work as a team to follow the schedule, make sure everyone was on the same page and happy so that things went smoothly. everyone had to do their role in order for things to work
• also when I was doings study abroad I had to work as a team with some of the other British students doing Erasmus because the visa system was a nightmare and we had to work together to understand how to do it because a lot of peoples student visa applications were rejected because of paperwork issues so we had to work together, share information and tricks in order to then secure the first part of our visa and again later on in Barcelona my friend and I had to work out how to get the second part of our visa when there were no appointments available because the system is corrupt
• also at the cinema, particularly when we were closing, we had to work as a team to get the jobs done like restocking cleaning, locking up so we could all go home having done the job properly