Dominic Hyams Talks about His Work in Tv Production And Finding Ways to Live Independently.

My name is Dominic Hyams. I live in Harpenden in Hertforshire, a small town north of St Albans. I'm what you call an assistant producer of a sports production company called Sunset and Vine, which makes a wide variety of sports programming across many sports. An assistant producer is a role that's very varied and that's why I love it. Everything from scripting and writing running orders all the way through to sitting in an annex suite and cutting shots and stuff. I first was aware of the media industry and got exposure to it by doing a documentary with Channel 4 called Crip on a Trip which I self-titled you'll be pleased to know. My first job was working in the admin department of Morrisons. It was lovely to do a job just like my mates were doing at the time. I think the main barrier for most things is independence, and just being able to do as much as you can as easily as you can do it, and there's a lot of ways round things but finding the most efficient and sort of straightforward way of achieving something is - yes, that's the challenge and it's kind of enjoyable at times to be able to just work around a problem, solve it and then be able to do it yourself. Going back to the documentary I made in 2006, I'd say that my greatest achievement is having emails, phone-calls, and messages on Facebook and stuff from people that genuinely said that what they saw changed their perception either of disability or changed their perception of how they were going to conduct their own life. It sounds cliched, but I think the main thing to do is never give up and always believe that what you want to do, you can do, have dreams, have aspirations and wholeheartedly pursue them, and if you are doing that you have got a focus and a drive and that will be a natural thing that just sets you on your path to achieving wonderful and great things that inspire other people around you as well.