DIGITAL DESIGNER
Simon Cam
Hey I'm Simon, better known as Scam by my colleagues, and I'm a Digital Designer. I work at an advertising agency called glue London and my job involves working specifically with interactive video production. That means I work with film, special effects and 3D graphics, in developing games and all sorts of other cool stuff you see online. My job is hugely varied; one day I could be creating an online 3D game and the next I'll be shooting a piece of film with miniature body cameras.
Even though I work in what is typically considered a "creative" field, my maths and science background has really helped me with the technical side of my career. If you're creative, but also like maths and science, this is the perfect job for you.
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Did you know?- A Digital Designer can earn between £14,000 and £45,000.
- Being involved in loads of video shoots means you have to travel all over the country and sometimes abroad.
- You get to work with a huge range of people, from film directors and actors, to designers and illustrators.
- As a digital designer you need to stay on top of creative, visual and technological trends.
- Digital designers are responsible for a whole host of things we see everyday from websites and ads to book covers and TV programmes.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:My name's Simon, I run Superglue, which is Glue London's Digital Film and Video department. We basically do production and post production for digital media.
Most of the work that we do is quite collaborative, you know, and it does bring together a lot of different disciplines. You've got developers involved, you've got designers, you know, creatives, us doing all the film work, you know.
Quite a lot of kind of darting backwards and forwards between the offices as well. We've got another office over the road.
We're based in Shoreditch, which is a really interesting part of London. You do tend to get quite a lot of kind of quite random street art, you know, a lot of creative people around.
So we're going up to the 7th floor of the T building at the moment, which is where the other half of Glue is. And this is an example of a project that we've been up to recently for the Royal Navy. You can basically send a message to your friend and actually insert it in to a piece of film. So the way that we actually did that was we had little strips of tape that we stuck on to the laptop screen, and then we go through the process of motion tracking those. And what that actually generates is a whole bunch of numbers. The really great thing about being able to use maths in this instance is that it just takes a lot of the work out of it, and it enables you to focus more on, you know, the creative side.
So this is the finished film. Finally, the commando will fast-rope his way down and deliver you the customised message.
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