Alexandra Walters

Experience

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  Pa

  Jul 2007 - Jul 2007

  Conservationist

  Working at a turtle reserve in Costa Rica. Checking nests, patrolling beaches and building sand banks.

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  ORBIS International

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2008

  Assistant camera operator

  Assistant to Bafta nominated Toby Trackman in the making of a film about the work of the Charity, Orbis UK. We travelled around Tanzania filming the work that the charity carries out and the families it has helped.

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  Cropper photography

  Sept 2009 - Jan 2010

  Photographer's Assistant

  Part- time Personal assistant to Fashion photographer Cropper. Assisting on high profile shoots forGQ and for the cover of Grazia magazine. Duties included administration, diary management, booking models and locations, arranging and coordinating photo shoots, retouching images, designing mood boards and assisting with lighting.

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  Ukfestivalguides.com

  Jul 2011 - Jul 2016

  Photographer and reporter

  Press photographer and reporter for ukfestivalguides.com during the summer festival season

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  Digit London

  Sept 2011 - Sept 2011

  Intern

  Intern at Digit London, a WPP digital advertising agency. I helped with concepts, produced illustrations for M&S which featured on their website, analysed the usability of a new website, produced designs for the display of a portfolio, wrote an extract for the Digit blog, produced scamps as part of an interactive web piece for a luxury whisky brand, researched for projects and learnt how to prepare assets for a website.

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  Foxtons

  Oct 2011 - Sept 2013

  Property Photographer

  Property photographer for Foxtons estate agent in London. Producing and editing interior and exterior property photographs, composing 360° virtual tours, drawing floor plans and writing the advertisements and detailed descriptions of a huge variety of properties.

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  Red Balloon Productions

  Dec 2013 - Dec 2013

  Camera Operator

  Working the main camera for a staff award ceremony at Bournemouth University.

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  Wildscreen

  Oct 2014 - Oct 2014

  Photographer

  Official photographer at Wildscreen wildlife film Festival in Bristol. Photographing events, workshops and talks such as David Attenborough's Big ideas talk.

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  River Monsters - Icon Films

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2015

  Assistant

  Assisting on a shoot for Icon Film's 'River Monsters'. I also provided the production stills using my Canon 5D MKiii

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  Icon Films

  Jan 2015 - Jul 2015

  Production Runner

  second Camera/assistant BBC’s ‘The One Show’ natural history and current affairs, archive researcher– survive the Tribe, graphic designer - River Monsters app, in-house graphic designer and photographer, edit assistant/Selects editor - taster videos, camera operator - Swallows and Amazons Bristol Old Vic, FOH, driving, collecting tapes and props, checking kit, admin, errands, digitising media, DIT.

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  Chardons Limited

  Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

  Camera Operator

  Chardons Chalets. Filming promotional films as well as staff training videos.

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  Bristol Zoo and Gardens

  Jan 2016 - Aug 2016

  Ranger Volunteer Lemurs/Wallabies/Butterflies/Gorillas

  Talking to the public about the animals and conservation

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  BBC

  Jul 2016 - Nov 2016

  Production Assistant

  'War on Drugs' - Camera assisting, coordinator at base; conveying important information from the police and crew A to the other crews during a fast-paced and sensitive operation. Updating everyone on everything that was going on at every location and when and where to move next. Making sure rushes were labelled correctly and taken to the data wrangler for processing. Early starts (3:30am) and unpredictable shoot.

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  Drummer Television

  Jan 2017 - May 2017

  PC for ‘Circus Kids’ and helping the PM with ‘Ice Stars’. Creating call sheets, gaining permits UK & overseas, working with contributors, booking car hire, travel & accommodation, logging, booking kit, admin, petty cash/per diems, Music clearance for BBC (MCPS/PRS/PPL)

  • Camera Operator

    Mar 2017 - May 2017

  • Production Coordinator

    Jan 2017 - May 2017
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  BBC

  May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Pre live shows - researching brown bears & wildlife for Liz Bonnin, sourcing Alaska based specialist props and materials, making props, admin and prepping kit for shipment. Promoted to AFM in Alaska -keeping set organsied and running smoothly, working with contributors and presenters, keeping time and making sure props and contributors are on set at the right times, training runners, rigging & de-rigging. Camera refresher course from Pete McCowen on Varicam and drone training. Working in the live studio, operating monitors for presenters during live shows, research, helping the remote camera ops rig live cameras and sound, cable bashing, keeping crew happy, rigging and de-rigging, assisting with props on live show.

  • Assistant Floor Manager 'Wild Alaska Live'

    Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  • Studio Runner - Springwatch

    May 2017 - Jun 2017
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  BBC

  Jan 2018 - now

  • Assistant Producer/Director Planet Earth 3

    Jul 2018 - now

  • Series Researcher Planet Earth 3

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2021