Lee Lewis

Broadcast Media & Popular Culture

I have always been interested in the media industry, A couple of months ago my friend had just finished her second year within Media and film, I thoroughly enjoyed helping her film the battle of the bands at Bridgend in South Wales, learning about her course I knew that i wanted to join the world of media.

I chose BroadCast Media and Popular Culture as this course offers a wide rang of opportunities and I’m not quite sure what field I want to specialise in yet. The Broadcast Media and Popular Culture course seems to offer a variety of course choices for good job prospects that I haven’t even began to imagine, a new world of ideas, possibilities and challenges awaits.

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My CV

I have been involved in a charity for terminally ill children with cancer (Christian Lewis Fund), where we had held a charity events to raise money for families who don’t have the finances to take their loved ones away on maybe their last holidays abroad.

For Fourteen months I had been trained as a full Samaritan to answer the general public via telephone and face-to-face contact, this is a rigorous challenge as you are in contact with vulnerable adults and children. Often you have to deal with suicidal callers and includes a wide variety of problems however even with abusive callers you need to show professionalism and take a non judgemental view.

I have also taught other new Samaritans at the branch within their training programme and to elevate any worries or queries they may have. I taught teenagers in schools with the training team about the effects of bullying and what Samaritan’s have to offer. I became Samaritan Leader and was in charge of shifts and also became a Samaritan counsellor and reviewer. I had letters of gratification from callers which is extremely rare. I extremely enjoyed the Samaritan’s and was sorry to leave and one day I would like to re-join in the near future.

Hobby’s and interest

My hobbies are reading, writing short stories, scripts, physical training, acrylic painting and oil painting.

I was a member of the Rhondda theatre group. Where I enjoyed acting, singing and dancing in musicals and Pantomimes, which are performed at the Park and Dare Theatre Treochy.

I have always had a great interest in singing and acting. This began when i was extremely young at infant School.

Primary school where I always participated in school plays and concerts. This continued into secondary school, where I began to take leading roles in the drama societies. Where I played my fist big lead role in the musical Joseph and a leading role in performance of Lion Witch and the Wardrobe.

At the same time I took lessons playing the following instruments when I was in school:

· Double Bass
· Bass guitar
· Violin


Out side school, I was a member of a church drama group. Here I took leading roles in community productions.

Also at this time I was a member of the Welsh National Opera and took part in many of their performances including The Magic Flute and phantasia. While involved in this I was interviewed by the BBC for a television documentary about the group and how brining such a large organisation for the first time into the Valleys.

Today I am a member of the Rhondda Theatrical Society and taking part in such performances as Me and My Girl (playing the part of the Pearly King).
At this time the B.B.C were making a Welsh film called A Light In My Valley, where I was an extra playing the part as the Pearly King on stage in the Parc and Dare Theatre Treochy.
I have successfully completed playing a lead comedy roles such as Danny Boy in a Pantomime performance of Little Red Riding Hood.

In another group production I requested to take smaller part in the world premier Mary Poppins to design and work behind the scenes to gain knowledge about the stage.
I was selected one out of 20,000 people at the BT telephone karaoke competition to make a new single with Boy George early in 1999 however I only passed the first audition.

Also in early December 1999, I was asked to audition twice for Rising Star at Drill Hall theatre West End in London however University commitments restricted me from taking the addition.

On January 8th 2000 I attended a two and a half-hour workshop for the National Youth Drama Theatre of Wales.

I was the character Quasimodo in a premiere pantomime, The Hunch Back of Notre Dame where I sang two of the songs from the animated Disney movie,

I successfully passed two auditions at the H.T.V studios, I was against over five thousand people right throughout Wales and only 26 of us passed to for Nuts and bolts workshops which I had completed successfully.

This included sketch improvisation, writing monologues of our own personal experiences and put these into scripts, and writing our own character brake downs, scenes, improvisations and interpretations on speech, on the 25th and 26th of March I was on location for the pilot episode of Nuts and Bolts where I was a members of the cast for a character as Gary.

In January 2002 I had a small role in a documentary of Darwin’s Quest which was on location at Bristol (England) on a replica ship.

Also apart from my acting I have had professional singing lessons, I have played another lead role as Bobby in a show "A Chorus Line" which involved singing and many different types of dancing routines.

30th September 2006

Is a blog good or bad and who decides?

New to my blog and the whole Blogging experience, I’ve been asked to write an article about the pros and cons of a blog system. I have given some considerable thought about Blog’s and I have come to a conclusion that the internet is an asset of our daily lives for a vast mass of reasons, I know this seems obvious to most of you.

In recent years, I have found the internet an essential asset of my daily life, learning about subjects and places I have never even known existed or would have imagined, it gives us all the advantages of opening our minds to new possibilities and higher reasoning, we don’t have to be stuck in our small corner of the world anymore.

However I’m confident that you have read and have your own thoughts upon this subject, never the less I think it is worth while exploring, scraping on the surface and I’m sure you will as well.

My aim in this short article is to give some “food for thought”, not going into considerable depth at this stage, but as time goes by I would like to reinvestigate some subjects I have touched upon briefly.

Even though the internet is a wonderful tool in our modern ever changing competitive world.
You must be mindful with a blog and internet sites. Answer these following questions before you go ahead with you’re research:-

Who wrote the article?

Are they qualified?

Are they accountable?

Is there been a lot of research on their chosen topic? If so, what other evidence can they share/support to their findings or a link to their sources?

What influences have the writer(s) have encountered previously before writing their article? This may alter their perception considerably upon their world they live in; their reality may be somewhat different to yours. Their perception of the world around them may be different to yours, thus changing and altering their own theories towards the world around them.

What is their intention?

Obvious! I know, however we may forget this from time to time, the list can be elaborated I’m sure.

The writer may be well placed, they may even have “good intentions” about their chosen subject. I won’t mention names nor certain web sites, however the best of us do get things wrong, after all we’re only human.

Before putting into you’re essays, research, general browsing etc, finding facts and drawing up you’re conclusion, you would be well advised to draw upon a number of resources at you’re disposal, more the better.

Look up the good old book. Book you say? Of course! Remember that with a book the subject has been closely monitored and vetted, usually there has been more thought and usually been more researched, with a good old fashioned book, the author has had to “jump through the hoops” as it were.

As you are aware this doesn’t make the author impenetrable from being taken to court, or tagged with bad publicity. The sad fact is we live in a claim happy society and increasingly at work etc, there is now paperwork on top of paper work to protect our employers from being prosecuted, this is just an example.

The internet as you are aware has its vulnerabilities, every sociological environment, constituency, and establishment, are open to corruption and abuse. Take another example, child pornography has seemed to sore in resent years, with more and more media coverage, with technology becoming more affordable so everyone can have a chance to purchase computers and having internet access to the World Wide Web, the international community are becoming more computer literate.
As a more media aware society, are we more knowledgeable and excepting to the fact that there is problems out there that needs to be addressed, perhaps the internet has opened or highlighted the problems? This of course is up to you to debate.

Blogs are wonderful tools for our international community to share a wealth of knowledge to our worldly neighbours, our experiences, our fears, our triumphs, our humour and our grief. This is for everyone to examine and debate, the floor is left too you. You have a chance to view you’re thoughts and feelings, a diary of you’re life, if you choose to be a little more personal or graphic, that’s the beauty of you’re personal blog.

Please remember to be mindful how “personal” you want to be! You never know who’s reading. Remembering the internet isn’t as well vetted as traditional channels, or is it? Also take into consideration there is people out there who could gather personal information on you for a dishonourable purpose.
Looking at it from another point of view
Well I suppose you could look at it from another angle, a blog can be said to represent an interpretation, a profound feeling and need for “Freedom of speech”.

Even though it is thought we live in a democratic society, there are barriers in all societies, some good, and some bad. It’s up to you to imagine, interpret and “think for you’re self” to what they are! It’s not my place to judge nether would I ever want to. (Lee Gwyn Lewis, September 30th 2006)