Curriculum Vitae of
MARIEKE BARKER – BENFIELD
Gallery Director & Camera Operator
E: [email protected]
T: Mobile: +44 (0)7799 674006
A: Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6
Full UK Driving license with own car
Valid EU passport
British
TEACHING MULTI – CAMERA
TV Production (BA degree course)
Suspicious Behaviour
Education
Education
Lecturer
Tutor
Middlesex University
Waltham Arts Council
(‘07 – ‘15)
(‘07 – ‘08)
STUDIO / MULTI - CAMERA
I took a career break throughout most of 2014 and 2015 to start a family
‘Love Island’ (series 2)
Reality/Ents
Gallery Director
ITV
(2016)
‘One Born Every Minute’ (Series 9)
Obs Doc
Gallery Director
Channel 4/Dragonfly
(2015)
‘One Born Every Minute’ (Series 8)
Obs Doc
Gallery Director
Channel 4/Dragonfly
(2014)
‘One Born Every Minute’ (Series 7)
Obs Doc
Gallery Director
Channel 4/Dragonfly
(2014)
‘Celebrity Big Brother’ (Series 11)
Reality
Gallery Director
Channel 5/Endemol
(2014)
‘Big Brother’ (Series 14)
Reality
Gallery Director
Channel 5/Endemol
(2013)
‘Celebrity Big Brother’ (Series 10)
Reality
Gallery Director
Channel 5/Endemol
(2013)
‘Big Brother’ (Series 13)
Reality
Gallery Director
Channel 5/Endemol
(2012)
‘Big Brother’ (Series 8 – 15)
Reality
Camera Operator Ch 4 & 5/Roll2Record
(‘07 – ‘16)
‘Celebrity Big Brother’ (Series 5 – 10) Reality
Camera Operator Ch 4 & 5/Roll2Record
(‘07 – ‘15)
BBC Arabic
News
Camera Operator BBC World Service
(2013)
BBC Arabic
News
Floor Manager
(2013)
‘HM Queen’s Diamond Jubilee’
OB
Camera Assistant BBC/NEP Visions
(2012)
‘Raw Live ‘12’
Scripted Music
Camera Operator Buzz Network/Live Event
(2012)
‘Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards’ Music
Camera Operator Kulture Vulture/Live Event
(2012)
‘The Stranglers’ In Concert
Music
Camera Operator Kulture Vulture/Concert DVD
(2011)
‘Charly Coombes & the New Breed’
Music
Camera Operator Web Content/Live Event
(2011)
‘Spike Edney & Friends’
Music
Camera Operator Flint Productions/Live Webcast
(2010)
‘Stretchworks’
Lifestyle
Camera Sup’visor DVD
(2010)
‘Raw Live ‘10’
Scripted Music
Camera Operator Buzz Network/Live Event
(2010)
‘Raw Live ‘09’
Scripted Music
Camera Operator Buzz Networ/Live Event
(2009)
‘Bid TV & Price Drop TV’
Shopping
Camera Operator Sky/Cable/Sit-Up Ltd
(‘05 – ‘12)
‘Before, Before Watchmen’
Comedy
DOP
Viral/We Scare Monsters
(2012)
‘The Gap’ (Sketch Show)
Comedy
DOP
Viral/We Scare Monsters
(2010)
Inside Crime
Factual
DV Director
ITV/Screenchannel
(2008)
BBC World Service
PSC / OTHER
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Curriculum Vitae of
MARIEKE BARKER – BENFIELD
Gallery Director & Camera Operator
ADDITIONAL INFO
Experience & competency in operating the following cameras in various formats:
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GVG/Thomson LDK6000
Panasonic HVX 200/201/202 P2
Sony D50 Studio Camera
JVC KYD29W Studio Camera
Sony XDCAM PDW F350
JVC GY5000
Sony XDCAM PMW 350L
Canon XL2
Sony DSR 500/570
Canon 7D, 5D MkII, 550D with various Canon Zoom & Prime lenses
Sony 790 Digibeta
Sony PD150/170
Sony EX3 - Sony HVR Z1E
I’m a competent experienced Floor Manager, with knowledge and experience of TV & Workplace Health and Safety
Regulations, managing scripts, audience and studio guests.
I am also confident in sound and lighting technologies in the studio and in the field, with experience in both.
AFFILIATIONS
Guild of Television Cameramen
EDUCATION
Middlesex University, England
September ‘02 – May ‘05
BA Television Production: 2:1
Collingwood College
September ‘99 – June ‘01
A-Levels in
Art & Design
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Media Studies
B
Sociology
D
REFERENCES
Tom Parr
Series Director – ‘One Born Every Minute’ (Dragonfly)
+44 (0)7970 871645
[email protected]
Danny Tate
Senior Director – ‘Big Brother’ (Endemol)
+44 (0)7734 354447
[email protected]
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