Work Experience: Day 2 [ 10/05/16 ]

After completing a number of tasks during day one of work experience, I underwent some other tasks which were completed including the following:

• Solent Creatives: Blog post on my video game development completed and ready for publishing on 12/05/16 which is now available here!
• Video editing: Today I managed to get around the ropes of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 where I spent most of the day cutting different scenes from interviews with students who had completed a unit with Solent Creatives involving running a business. This task will also run into tomorrow where I will be instead of combining different students' views into a single video, the videos will be put into different case studies so people can view individual students.

Alongside this I was also briefed on further tasks which I could do and the next task to be done after the video editing is writing up blog posts for Mainline Menswear JD as Solent Creatives work with them helping them with posts consisting of a variety of topics. Nearer to the end of the working day I got a tour around the university and I also found out that if I write up two posts for Mainline Menswear, I can get a bag filled with goodies (courtesy of Tom).

Again I'll be making a log of these elements for each day so you'll expect a similar layout and these posts may be published and online later than expected as I have revision to do for Media and Film Studies alongside working on a unit that this entire blog is dedicated to for Travel & Tourism.

Work Experience Log: Day 2

Self-management: 8 - I'd still rate it the same as day one because whilst there was some improvement on communication, I continued to maintain maturity and to adhere to tasks that I was being delegated at the workplace.

Teamwork: Not much I can pick up from with teamwork but that doesn't mean anything bad because I'm still hard at work and determined to do work, the only thing I can really pick up from teamwork was discussing ways of which my blog post can be published on the Solent Creatives website and how the video editing could be rearranged into different case studies.

Participation: For participation I think it just links back to my dedication to work at Solent Creatives; I was very pleased to hear that people were still discussing about my video game development blog post which was one of the first things I heard when I walked into the office in the morning. I think that I participate in Solent Creatives by assisting people with tasks that they might not have time to do whilst they get on with work that they need to do.

Creativity: 8 - I'm going to keep this at 8 for today as well because my creativity links to the blog post where I needed to publish pictures and I'd preview them here but I think they're better off revealed when the Solent Creatives blog post is published, something which may possibly be linked in day 3 of the work experience log.

Reflectiveness: 8 - I believe that I showed consistent reflectiveness today, especially in the video editing where it was all down to this as I had to consider what parts of the videos I was going to cut off, which ones were going to be used and which scenes were good to go. There were lots of bloopers throughout the videos to which doesn't surprise me as I've also had funny moments where things went wrong during my video projects in Film and Media Studies.

Independence: 8 - I think that I showed consistent independence and needed some guidance like yesterday in terms of what I had to do and I was always focused on the task in hand. I believe that I showed a lot of my independence with the video editing as I found my own way around getting the structure of the interview video/unit preview and with some suggestions made to how I can structure it again, I'd be willing to piece it up together to be better than before.

Attendance: 10 - Likewise with day one, I arrived at the workplace 5 minutes short of the start time as it's always a good thing to be early to be able to set up.

Communication: 8 - I'd say communication was slightly improved as I begun to interact with other people in the workplace as well when they had given me a task to do, such as Chris briefing me on the video editing and what I could do. Another way in which communication improve was that I also gave enquiries as soon as I could during the day if I had any for anyone.

Motivation: 9 - I don't believe that my motivation will decrease because this work experience is entirely new for me unlike other people in the class who are doing work experience who are a lot more confident than me, but I am determined to learn from this experience and see if my skills get any better as a result. Again, consistently motivated to do any tasks which I had handed to me and I spent most of the day getting around the ropes of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and editing the videos.

Summary

Summarising the day, it was another great day as I had a variety of projects/tasks to do and I got to go around the university so I'm more familiar with the place when I very hopefully come to start my course in September. I'm looking forward to the tasks ahead and especially to having my video game development projects and experiences posted on the Solent Creatives blog.