My Personal Development plan

My Personal Development Plan.

To reach ones full potential or ultimate goal within life, whether that be in in your career or interests in-between you need a well organized structure put in place. This structure will detail the individual steps you have to take in order to reach your goals to ensure you have a path before you that you can work along. For instance, to become an Oscar winner you, which for the purposes of this blog is your big goal, you have to know where you currently are in the grand scale of things and have an outline of what must be done to work towards your goal.

For me, my dream is to have both feet within the film industry, primarily as a writer. Equally I would love to be an independent film maker alongside my brother and friend as this is something we have always aspired to do for years. Now I am under now illusion that achieving either of these will be straight forward and some would say that making a career our of writing and filmmaking is unlikely but I have put in place a personal development plan that shows how I intend to get to where I want to go. My Plan in steps:

1.  Buy a top of the range Camera equipment to instil the best quality in my work.
2. Use that equipment to continue to do film voluntary short documentaries and commercials for charities and other companies.
3. Use these videos as promotion for paid work as a freelancer.
4. Use the money I earn from freelancing to buy any upgrades in equipment and start collecting funds for our first film.
5. Make a high quality original short film to enter into film festivals.
6. If the film is successful we will use that acclaim and exposure to raise funds to make our first feature length film.
7. Make a feature length film that will hopefully set us on our way.

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Name: Jake Littlehales Address: 6 Parsonage Street, Heaton Norris Stockport.
 Postal Code: Sk4 1HZ.
Email: Jakelittlehales@hotmail.co.uk
Telephone: 07461910099

I am a disciplined and self-motivated young man who strives for nothing but the best in everything that I do. I am extremely dedicated in order to be a successful film maker, head of an upcoming media company (Trifella Media and Production), volunteer worker and a high standard athlete runner (training 7 days per week) whilst studying for my Media degree at the University of Bolton. I also consider myself a strong team player who has no problem following orders quickly and efficiently both in a group or individually. Regarding the future I have high aspirations for my future like most young men. I want to be successful in all that I do, for me that would mean working for a well-known Television company to be part of what millions of people see every day. For example, I would love to work for the BBC or ITV on one of their established programmes. Similarly as a scriptwriter my ultimate dream will be realised when a film written by me appears in cinemas nationwide or one of my many sitcom ideas gets picked up by again, a major television company.

Skills and Personal Qualities:

·         Time management – I have to be organised and have a clear structure to each week in order to manage being a full time student who travels to and from University for long days of lectures and organise enough time to not only complete my assignments and filming commitments but also train to be a successful athlete up to twice a day.

 

·         Leadership – I have experience as chairmen of my young enterprise group as well as a sports coach to primary school children throughout college. Both roles taught me how to organise people of varied ages and give clear instructions in a thorough but friendly manner. Leadership is a skill that comes naturally being a sports captain on both football and athletics teams in the past. Being a leader in and out of sport over the years has shown me how to succeed and that hard work is vital, as well as being surrounded by likeminded people who work together to form a happy team around me who feel confident and valued.

 

·         Communication Skills – I am a current student councillor for my second year University class that is both demanding and a role that is full of rewards from a personal perspective. This has allowed me to become a strong listener and give advice from a professional standpoint and personal experience.  Speaking to members of staff on behalf of the students and reading out notices in a full lecture room is another positive from my role as student councillor.

 

·         Strong work ethic – I have a strong work ethic to give me the best choices and chances in life. It has not always been that way but now I know what I want to do as a career I work harder and harder day after day. My university studies requires a lot of patience to say the least but also what seems like endless hours to make sure it’s of the highest quality, I put the work in so I fully expect to get a worthwhile degree that I deserve at the end of my 3 years at Bolton.  It is not easy but I have to work hard to reach my goals, this means meeting assignment deadlines by working hours on end, running daily, training hard on the track, reading large textbooks for hours and putting my all into the important activities in my life.

 

Education/Qualifications:

 

University of Bolton, 2012 – present (Degree):                                          EXPECTED GRADE:

BSc Honours - Media, Writing and Production                                               First class honours

 

Ashton Sixth Form College, 2008-2010 (A-Level)                                                  GRADE:

English                                                                                                                                   B

Film Studies                                                                                                                          B

Physical Education                                                                                                              C  

Alder Community High School, 2003-2008 (GCSE):                                                GRADE:

Mathematics                                                                                                                         B

English                                                                                                                                    B

Science                                                                                                                                   C

PE                                                                                                                                           B

History                                                                                                                                   C

Religious Education                                                                                                             B

Art                                                                                                                                          C

Outside Interests:

·         Athlete for Stockport Harriers, training 7 times per week. Ex county champion and multiple county medals. I recently came 5^th in the Northern Senior Championships in the 800m (2013).

·         Coaching Track and Field to younger athletes.

 

·         Script Writing – I like to write short comedy scripts in my spare time as well as feature films/short films. I have also written two comedy stage shows that have been performed in theatres.

 

·         Freelance Photography; Life Portraits in the studio and in public, live events, music videos, promotional videos, corporate trailers/adverts and birthday parties.