Interviewing the original women from Made in Dagenham

To encourage people from around the UK to get involved with the UCU and The National Union of Students demonstration against cuts to education, myself and my colleague Lisa Pool interviewed four of the women who went on strike in 1968, at Ford Dagenham. Their actions consequently led to the introduction of the Equal Pay Act in 1970.

They did it – so can we. Fight for what you believe in.

Find out more about the demo – Fund Our Future: Stop The Cuts, by visiting the demo2010 website and joining the facebook group.

Filming at Glade Festival!

Southampton Solent University students were given the exciting opportunity to be a part of Glade, the electronic dance music festival for the third year running. The festival, a spin off from the larger Glastonbury festival, has been attracting an eclectic mix of open minded individuals since it first blasted out its electro beats four years ago.


After working for the festival in 2007 as part of the Solent Glade programme sellers, I managed to make it onto the backstage media crew, as a roaming reporter. I interviewed festival organisers, bands and DJs (including; Dreadzone, The Orb & SubGiant) and punters to find out what Glade is all about, as well as practice my video skills by filming live on the Main Stage.

The footage was used by the Glade artists and uploaded to the Solent University website.

To read more about the project click here. To view the highlight footage click here.

View the slideshow from Glade 2007.

Reporting from Glastonbury festival!

In 2008 I was part of the documentary team, reporting from across the site to create a feature about the festival’s Green Issues.

You can view the video on the Solent University ‘Gogglebox’

About the project:

The Solent at Glastonbury experience was organised by Southampton Solent University’s very own Glastonbury veteran Dave Poulton. Students from the Faculty of Technology’s Media Technology course and from the Faculty of Media Arts and Society’s Film and Television Production course supplied coverage of the Dance East stage whose line up included Roisin Murphy and Fat Boy Slim.

The students created highlight packages for major news agencies including Reuters, Associated Press and ITV.

As well as covering Dance East a documentary team, commissioned by the festival, created 6 short documentaries on green issues surrounding the festival, including one on the Jazz of the World Stage and the Dance Village. A documentary on ecology was also filmed.

The festival, who work closely with environmental charities such as Greenpeace and WaterAid, saw the green police out on the beat once again.

The documentary team, led by Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Production Tony Steyger, used the latest HD cameras.

Read more on the Solent website

Filming for SCONUL

Whilst working at Solent Students’ Union I often worked alongside the E-Development Centre team at Southampton Solent University.

Initially, I was involved in selling programmes and working as a roving student reporter at both Glade and Glastonbury festivals.

Upon being elected as Vice President Communications for Solent Students’ Union I maintained my links with team and helped to coordinate many projects; such as The Sound website and The Joiners listings magazine – both written by Solent students, as well as coordinating photoshoots and conducting filming for the University Portal page.

This particular video was created for SCONUL; the Society of College, National and University Libraries.

The aim of the video was to gain feedback from University students, across the South of England, as to the quality of their campus libraries.

We visited University campuses in Bath, Bournemouth and Southampton – the end result was shown to staff at the SCONUL Conference.

SCONUL Filming – Web Version from Nick Jewell on Vimeo.

If you cannot see the video, please view it on Vimeo HERE

For more information about SCONUL, visit their website.