Work Experience: Day 1 [ 09/05/16 ]

For the first day of work experience at Southampton Solent University I was first introduced to people also starting work at the university, where I was then briefed on what I was going to do throughout the week and the following bullet points outline what exactly I was briefed on in terms of working for the university:

• Solent Creatives: A blog post on the work which I have done in video game development with the recommendation of 500 to 1,000 words.
• Video game studio research project: I researched studios in the Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex areas and acquired information regarding name, address, telephone number and a short description of what they are and what they do.
• Video editing: Cutting scenes using a software which is quite new to me called Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and although I haven't gotten to much of this yet, I'm sure I'll be able to get around the ropes of the software and learn how to use it.

I believe that I worked quite well at the university today and I quite frankly enjoyed working there. I managed to get two of the briefed tasks done in the single day and begun working on the third task by learning about what the software I'm using has to offer to me. I had the option of reverting back to iMovie if I preferred that over Premiere Pro CS6 and two of the people who work at Solent Creatives said that I'd definitely be able to learn how to use the software.

In conjunction with this I'll be rating the areas covered in the introduction out of 10 alongside what I did in terms of the area highlighted and a justification for the rating.

Work Experience Log: Day 1

Self-management: 8 - I believed that I managed myself quite well though communication could've been improved. I maintained mature behaviour and always adhered to what I was asked to do e.g. Solent Creatives blog post, video game studio research etc.

Teamwork: ~

Participation: ~

Creativity: 8 - For creativity I demonstrated this in my Solent Creatives blog based on feedback that I got from the people who read the document I wrote the post in and people said that I had a great tone in my text and the grammar and punctuation was perfect. I demonstrated creativity by discussing a variety of topics in my video game development highlighting one of the biggest and longest projects which was a recreation of a plane made with 3D modelling.

Reflectiveness: 8 - I was very reflective throughout the day as I was thinking of ways I could improve my posture and to ensure that I could find every detail of research for the video game studio research and ensuring that there were no mistakes in my writing in both the blog post and the research.

Independence: 8 - I was very independent throughout the day though however I did seek help and offered my enquiries to Caroline who was responsible for delegating the tasks for me to do throughout the day/week. I maintained good independence throughout the day working through documentation and working on spreadsheets with little guidance needed.

Attendance: 10 - I arrived early to the job and ensured that I was able to start work on time.

Communication: 7 - Out of all of these elements I think communication could be improved as I mentioned in self-management, it's not something I'm best capable of and how I could improve this would be to ensure that I communicate more with other people in the workplace in the events that Caroline isn't around and something I always do with my communication is wait for a sensible time to ask instead of asking as soon as I need help, which can sometimes be time consuming. This will hopefully something I can work on throughout the week.

Motivation: 9 - I was highly motivated throughout the day to do work and this resulted in finishing two of three tasks which were to be done within the week in just a single day, showing how productive I was in the workplace and showing how motivated and determined I was to work, bearing in mind this is the first ever time I've done work experience which is something I will maintain throughout the week.

Well that covers about everything I know that happened today and teamwork and participation weren't given a rating as I haven't embarked on group projects as of yet, something which I believe that these two elements would be used in.

Summary

Summarising my first ever day of any form of work experience, I personally think it was a great day and it was a lot better than I expected it to be. I'm glad to have shown my achievements and dedication to working to people at the university which I'll be going to in September and there's not much I could say about it as it was all good. I enjoyed researching something which I have an interest in and was a pleasure to be able to write about my video game experience and showcase mine and other friends' projects.