We are pleased to announce that three year 12 and two year 10 BDC students have successfully gained work experience placements this summer at Channel 4. Our students went through a vigourous selection process including being invited to Channel 4 and meeting with different departments. Congratulations to our year 12 students Samantha Dennis, Jamilla Walters and Jordon Baillie and our year 10 students Natasha Turner-Wray and Timothy Field.
Yesterday afternoon BDC students past and present were part of an invited audience for BBC London Drivetime live radio special on gun and knife crime. Year 12 students Jamilla Walters, Elliott Saliba, Rasim Tayyar, Robert Lock, Stephanie Rayner, Aaron Hamilton and Vitoria Perez along with year 13 students Yoshi Alemayehu, Jade Hunter, Nicole Corbin as well as ex-student and BRIT FM producer Zaciya Miller and year 13 theatre sutdent William Ackon helped form a constructive debate around this central issue for many young people living in London. The students contributed live on air to the Drivetime show and helped to represent the voice of young Londoners. To listen to the show again click on the link below and follow the links to Eddie Nester on the right http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/05/31/click_of_the_day_feature.shtml
BRIT FM made a welcome return to the BBC London Studios to record a special show exploring the issues surrounding knife and gun crime amongst young people in London. The presenters included BDC year 13s Nicole Corbin, Joshua Osborn, reporters Georgina Oakford, Tanya Eddowes and the production team consisting of Danielle Palmer, Yasmin Stewart and the discussion panel of Anton Maclean, Yoshi Alemayehu and Yinka Koleosho. You can listen to the show by clicking here www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2008/06/04/yourstories_britmix_audio_feature.shtml as well as be able to listen to a variety of speech packages written and produced by BDC students as part of their BTEC National Diploma in Media Production. Click here to listen to students speech packages on BBC London http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/02/22/brit_fm_feature.shtml
On Tuesday of this week year 12 BDC and Music students took part in a workshop run by the MTV development team. The students were put into groups to generate ideas for a new and exiciting magazine show centred around one of the following, fashion, film and television, issues, online or music. Once the groups had divised their own show ideas, they then had to pitch their idea to the MTV programme development staff. The workshop ran for 2 hours ending with a question and answer session about MTV, the jobs that they do and how to get a job at MTV.
