{"id":1932,"date":"2017-04-25T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:25","slug":"jody-tozer-ba-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2017\/04\/25\/jody-tozer-ba-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Jody Tozer (BA 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Jody Tozer <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">(BA 2010)<\/span> is company director at Bulldozer Film, an independent film company specialising in music videos, short films, documentaries, and television content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Studying at Cardiff University really helped me shape what I wanted to do with my career. <\/strong>Participating in student media helped develop the skills I now use on a daily basis at work.\u00a0 My degree in English and Communication was great, but it was the experience I gained outside study that had led to where I am today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I was completely won over by the opportunity to participate in the Cardiff Student Media Awards,<\/strong> and work on numerous media outlets such as <em>Gair Rhydd<\/em>, <em>Quench<\/em>, CUTV, and Xpress Radio. Cardiff isn\u2019t too far away from my home city, Bristol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Student Media Awards is one of my favourite memories. <\/strong>It\u2019s a very glamourous event, where students are acknowledged for the work they have done in media outside of their degrees.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a great excuse to get dressed up and have a party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the year after I graduated,<\/strong> I undertook some freelance work as a videographer, and participated in a business mentor scheme which helped guide me on the next steps in self-employment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I now run my own business: Bulldozer Film.<\/strong> I work my own hours, and can be doing anything from marketing to processing funding applications.\u00a0\u00a0 I am also a film festival director for the <a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffminifilmfestival.co.uk\/\">Cardiff Mini Film Festival <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffresh.com\/\">Ffresh Student Media Festival of Wales <\/a>\u2013 I take part in every part of the production process for each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I will always remember my university experience as some of the best years of my life. <\/strong>I\u2019m so glad I went.\u00a0\u00a0 I started as a mature student \u2013 around nine years older than my peers \u2013 but I felt completely at home.\u00a0 Cardiff University was the platform for me to realise my future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jody Tozer (BA 2010) is company director at Bulldozer Film, an independent film company specialising in music videos, short films, documentaries, and television content.","protected":false},"author":1080,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,71,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities-social-sciences","category-english-communication-philosophy","category-our-alumni"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}