2007 - 2009
Yale College, Wrexham
Interactive Media and Photography
BTEC National diploma
- Name: Matthew Harrison-Jones
- A.K.A: Matt Hojo
- Age: 19
- Skills: Designing & Photography
- Website: www.matthojo.co.uk
Available for freelance work.
Education
Employment
March 2009
Yale Digital Story Workshop
Creative Mentor and Technical Support/Advisor
Yales' Digital Story Workshop was based in Holt, Wrexham. The idea behind the workshop was to get the local people of all ages to individualy produce a digital story based on their memories of Holt. My job was to mentor participants and to help other mentors/participants with techincal difficulties on the Macintosh laptops and also with Adobe Creative Suite.
November 2008
Concept For Living Magazine
Photographers Assistant
I had to assit the photographer for 'Concept For Living' magazine (Jazz Publishing’s) on location.
January – December 2008
Jan Miller Photography
Photographers Assistant
I assisted Jan Miller at her portrait studio for a year. My jobs ranged from making tea to taking some photographs, but mainly setting up the studio lights and other equipment such as reflectors and the backdrop.
March 2007
Design Reality
Work Experience
At Design Reality I was on work experience in the graphic design section. They gave me mock projects to work on and after a few days of mock projects they decided I was good enough for live work. I was working with Adobe Photoshop.
Freelance Clients
November 2009
Ice Age Media
Website Design
I worked freelance for Ice Age Media doing website desing work.
December 2008
Jan Miller Photography
Website Photographs
I was asked to photograph Jan Miller for her website.
Summer 2008
CycleLife (Raleigh/Diamondback)
Editorial Photographs
I photographed the Rhyl Cyclelife BMX and Skateboard competition. One of my photographs was chosen for a nationwide poster advert and other images chosen for CycleLifes company magazine.
Exhibitions
June 2008
"We'll Keep a Welcome"
Theatre Clwyd
I had to produce photographs for the exhibition based on the play "We'll Keep a Welcome", a play written by Michael Stevens.
Skills + Interests
Professional
- Photography
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- HTML / CSS
- PHP
- mySQL
- jQuery
Personal
I play Inline Hockey for a couple of teams; St Asaph Shadows and Celtic Pirates.
I also run a network of websites with a friend to expand my interests in the creative media industry;
Phase10.co.uk
Multimedia community forum.
Phaseten.co.uk
Creative studio.
Designerfence.co.uk
Media professionals online directory.
Other Stuff!
Qualified Inline Hockey Referee for the North Wales and Flintshire Leagues and I currently referee matches for under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 and under 21's age groups.