S.M: What would you say is the most valuable thing that you’ve gained from your time at LFS? It was always to come and learn how to effectively light and create my own set ups so that I could go and self-shoot. I never came to LFS to be a fiction director. So I wanted to go and learn more of the technical side of things. I basically wanted to do bits of the production side of it and self-shooting but I realised that I didn’t really know as much about cameras and planning my own shoots as I thought I did. So they’re encouraging you to either go freelance or come back on a directors level. J.S: With the BBC you can work there for two and a half years before they make you permanent staff. S.M: What made you decide to come to LFS? I must have been at home for a week before I got a phone call saying “Would you like to come down for this production?” So I think I did 11 shows back to back with the BBC without taking a break. And then within that network of research and directing and producing at the BBC, everybody knows each other if you go from project to project. Anyone who is averse to making teas and coffees, sorry - give up and go home. I’m quite proactive, so I created a role for myself there. J.S: I got into quite a small development company and then from that you have to just make yourself really invaluable. S.M: How did you go from that to paid positions? Ju Shardlow (J.S): It was weird actually because I got a message from my sister saying there was someone from a TV production company at a house party and I was in bed! She was talking about how she couldn’t find an intern so I got out of bed, got dressed and then I went to this party at midnight and was like, “Hello, nice to meet you!” There’s a way of doing it, that eagerness, instead of assuming that you deserve something. Sophie McVeigh (S.M): How did you go about getting your first work experience position? Shardlow took time out of her extremely busy schedule to meet up with screenwriter Sophie McVeigh, who wanted to find out more about Sharlow’s journey to The London Film School, only to discover that she had many more strings to her bow than had been anticipated. I was self-shooting, learning how to do camera work and then from that went to the LFS.” "I got my first job with the BBC in 2012 on The Culture Show and worked there for three years or so as a junior researcher in documentaries. “I’d done lots of theatre stuff at uni but there wasn’t really any media studies, so I decided that I wanted to go and maybe get a work experience placement.” After doing exactly just that in a script production company, Shardlow went on to production runner, production assistant and then runner research assistant, working her way up the ladder.ĭuring this time, she gained experience with organisations such as Hartswood Films, makers of SHERLOCK, while working at Teddington and Shepperton studios. Shardlow will graduate later this year from The London Film School’s Masters in Filmmaking programme. Like many people in the industry, current London Film School (LFS) student Ju Shardlow graduated in a subject unrelated to film, doing journalism and literary jobs here and there for a year before finally deciding to go into film and TV.
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