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Full Throttle: The Women Who Drive Change is finally live. The making of this documentary has been both testing and rewarding. I have pushed my abilities and worked tirelessly to accurately represent the automotive and motorsport landscape. I hope through my editing this story is well received and reinforces its main message. That even when you don't feel like belong, there is a space for you. I hope you enjoy and don't forget to engage and help me carry on these vital conver

To conclude production I was spending the weekend in Oxfordshire to interview the last two voices in my documentary : Jenny Fletcher - Motorsports UK FIA Girls On Track Programme Leader Jeremy Rivers-Fletcher - British Women Racing Drivers Club Membership Secretary My weekend started at the Motorsport UK Bicester Motion for a Girls On Track (GOT) networking event. This event included an inspiring panel of young women sharing, celebrating and educating the room about the m

Production is still underway for Full Throttle with just a mere three weeks left until deadline day. I am getting quite use to the journalism side-quests now but last night's shoot was very different ... screenshot of GoPro footage I have attended the South Coast Karting circuit once before for my documentary filming, but this time I swapped out the equipment I have got use to as my mission was to capture an immersive, first-person shot of a driver getting into their kart and

Yesterday was a fantastic day interviewing two very successful women in the motorsport landscape. Nini Miko Laura Harris Nini Miko - Founder of Grit Media , a creative agency offering production, communications, PR and creative work in the motorsport world in particular in off-roading. Laura Harris - Founder of BeRight Back, a digital marketing agency and woman's automotive community. Both Nini and Laura represent something vital, what it actually looks like when women carve

Before embarking on this project, I had a few options on how I would tell this story: stay in my comfort zone with an online or magazine style piece, or push myself into the intimidating territory of creating a video piece. Writing and online content creation has always been a passion for me and I think I have subconsciously stayed in that safe space throughout my whole time at Bournemouth University on my Multimedia journalism degree - if there was an option to stay behind t

On the 13th November Sky Sports announced its new TikTok channel Halo - "the lil sis" to Sky Sports. This blog post is about the way Sky Sports really missed the mark on this one and how failures like this knock women in male-dominated fields back by miles. You would expect Sky to have taken this opportunity to highlight real female experts across this landscape, from race drivers to engineers working tirelessly behind the scenes, but instead they created Halo, a "pinkified"

Teams interview with Hannah Reek from Girls Across The Grid My first interview has taken place, due to distance it's online but nonetheless the content and conversation are both extremely insightful. Hannah Reek works part time for Girls Across The Grid , a community to unite female motorsport fans across the world. We spoke about the representation, or lack of, for young girls and women wanting to break way into the industry not as drivers but as supporters of the sport and

Heading page for my pitch ppt Pitch week rolled around fast ! This was my time to prove why my documentary matters and why what I am advocating for should be broadcasted. 3 minutes, 5 slides and enough enthusiastic energy to convey why this doc will be a hit. Leading up to my pitch I felt nervous and unsure how i would sell this story in such a short amount of time, so I rehearsed and rehearsed and made sure that no matter the question, no matter the nervs I would be able to

South Coast Karting - Chapel Gate Production is well under way as I attend South Coast Karting to capture video footage, sound bites and OOVS for my documentary. Attending the circuit at Chapel Gate was great and I managed to get some really great footage for my documentary. I attended to get a feel for grassroot events and I managed to capture way more content than I originally planned. The Saturday event consisted of adult championship rounds as well as junior taster sessio