ANNELOES
KRIST
Age: 30
Course: IMEM
Year of graduation: 2006
Occupation: Freelance producer / editorial office
Company: NOS News
In 2007 I started working in a different branch
than the media industry. I worked as a
consultant for two years when I decided to
quit my job and to travel through Asia for
three months. When I came back I found
my first job in the media industry in no time.
Throughout the years I worked as a producer
for several companies including New Haven
Productions, Talpa, RTV Noord-Holland and
Endemol, I also did some editorial work next
to my production tasks. This year I decided to
start working as a freelancer; the NOS was my
first client. I am considering taking a Camjo and
a writing course. I would also like to learn how
to use my voice as a voice over. In 5 years I only
want to do things I really like and still continue
to work as a freelancer. I hope I will have a
lot of clients and hope to do more editorial/
creative work in the television branch. I now
know that this industry is hard work, but it is worth
it. The industry is a great, creative and exciting
environment to work in.
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TINO
VAN DER KRAAN
Age: 26
Course: IGAD
Year of graduation: 2013
Company: SassyBot Studio
Occupation: Game Developer & Creative
During my time at IGAD, Elwin Verploegen
and I started the foundations of a company
together with a few other fellow students
during our second year. Throughout the next
few years this collective shrank down to only
Elwin and I. After we graduated, we embraced the
opportunity of running our own business
considering that the risks were significantly
low for us, and SassyBot Studio was officially
formed. Now, a year and a half after graduation,
we moved into two offices and still enjoy
running this company together. Currently, we
are working on an interactive narrative game
called Fragments of Him. The aim is to release
the game later this year. In the future we hope to
release Fragments of Him on multiple
platforms, and possibly scale up the company to
a maximum of 5 employees. Aside from that, we
look forward to prototyping a host of other ideas
to figure out which projects we should focus
on next.
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