Overview of my creative writing, journalism and photojournalism

Ella Denton

Journalist
Videographer
Script Writer
iMovie
Word

A brief overview of my writing experience over the last seven years:

September 2017 - July 2020: The Greenhouse Magazine

  • Educational Visits Co-Editor of the Greenhouse Magazine at Haberdasher's Aske's Girls' School in my penultimate year of school. A veritable institution, the Greenhouse has been running at Haberdashers' for over 100 years and those who have worked on the Greenhouse have gone on to extremely successful careers in journalism.
  • Photographer for several events at the school, including the Autumn Concert and the Dance and Drama Showcase. My photographs were published in the 2018/19 edition of the Greenhouse.
  • I contributed as a writer to the Greenhouse a number of times, including working with the school archivist for the centennial celebration of the magazine to hear about experiences of students during the war and looking at old samples of uniform.

September 2019 - March 2020: New Views, National Theatre

In my final year of school, I participated in the New Views program of the National Theatre. I was paired with a professional playwright to develop my own thirty-minute play script, attending numerous workshops on specific aspects of storyline development and having regular meetings with my organiser at school. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic this project was halted so I was never able to complete my script.

September 2018 - March 2020: Other endeavours in Sixth Form

  • Directed Year 4, 5 and 6 students at our Junior School in Shakespearean Drama Club
  • Co-founded and edited a new school newspaper, The Chronicle, as a culture-focused and more informal counterpart to the magazine. Wrote my own review of the 1975 album A Brief Enquiry into Online Relationships.
  • Founded a scriptwriting club for girls in year 7 and 8, helping them develop a script about the tense relationship between the former headmistresses of our school, based on my own research in collaboration with the school archivist.

January - July 2021: The Washington Review, London School of Economics and Political Science

In my first year at the London School of Economics and Political Science, I and three other students founded the Washington Review, a journal with specific sections on the History, Law, Economics and Politics of the United States. I wrote an article on Eleanor Roosevelt's views on Israel through the lens of her personal column, My Day. The journal has since fallen inactive as I left the university for personal reasons in July of 2021.

December 2023 (ongoing): BBC Open Call

In December 2023, I sent my first full-length feature film to the BBC as part of their Open Call to writers of drama and comedy drama scripts. I am still waiting on a decision!



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