Work Experience: Day 4 [ 12/05/16 ]

This was initially supposed to be posted on Thursday though however I've managed to get through and almost fully recover from an illness as of 15/05/16 that developed starting from Wednesday. The illness may have been a cold/flu alongside my voice nearly going out and some slight hearing loss but that didn't stop me from communicating with other people in the workplace on Thursday and I tried as much as I could to stay in the entire day, leaving around 5-10 minutes before.

Fortunately now I'm in a good enough condition to go outside, ideal for the week ahead back at college; the illness has postponed my plans for work so I'll be putting some more of my own time into any assignments if necessary.

As a result of the illness I didn't turn up to work the following Friday but I'm happy to return for another day on 20/05/16 during the afternoon as I only have a double film studies lesson in the morning which ends at 10:25, allowing me to sign out from college to make my way to the university.

As usual I was involved with different tasks delegated to me within the workplace and these are the following tasks that I worked on:

• Solent Creatives: My blog post on video game development was finally posted on Thursday. Feel free to read it here: http://solentcreatives.co.uk/2016/05/12/game-development-experience-roblox/#.VzjVEvkrLIU 
• 3D Modelling: Solent Creatives wanted me to create a 3D version of their logo where they would accept either an exported video featuring the logo or a still image of the logo so they can feature it on their videos.
• Video editing: I didn't do much work on this due to my illness and I got a significant amount of editing done with case studies, I utilised the transitions which were offered and tried them on different videos to see what kind of effects I could put on the videos but I didn't keep them on there as I felt that transitions could've come at a later part of the video editing; had I shown up on Friday in good condition.

Work experience log ratings may be lower than the other days due to the illness I had, I wouldn't say that I was working as well as I was before the illness started to develop and below, as usual, you can find the scores I've given for myself and although maybe not accurate, it's a guess of where I'd be in these areas.

Work Experience Log: Day 4

Self-management: 4/5 - Unfortunately I didn't manage myself well with the illness in hand, I constantly had to go to the bathroom every few minutes and I wasn't feeling much in shape to work. The slight hearing loss made it less easy to hear people talking to me and whilst I could hear at the time, it wasn't as clear as before and now.

Teamwork: Teamwork was involved when deciding what I should do in regards to the tasks that I was doing for the day and I was coming up with ideas of what I could do with the 3D logo and getting feedback on what they wanted for the 3D logo.

Participation: I participated by doing as much as I could with the tasks being given to me and this also links back to what I said about ideas for the 3D logo that Solent Creatives suggested I could make for them.

Creativity: 7 - A lot of creativity went into the 3D logo as it's a long process recreating the logo on the software that I'm doing, it was about getting the right shaping for the logo and revisiting corrupted areas of the logo that I was recreating. I wouldn't say as much creativity as other days as I only mainly got on with the 3D logo.

Reflectiveness: 7 - I was consistently reflective, especially regarding my illness though however work-related, I was thinking whether I should stay at work or not, whether I was well enough or not to stay or if I was going to come in on Friday. I was also reflective when making the 3D logo ensuring that the shaping was right and making sure that parts weren't going to go corrupt like they did, finding my way around problems and solving them.

Independence: 6 - I was quite independent most of the time though however I was stopped from doing tasks as I had to go to the toilet to sort myself out whilst fighting my illness and should also definitely be improved on the day 5 post, when it comes.

Attendance: 10 - Again arrived around 3-5 minutes before my starting time to ensure I could get my stuff down and set up for the day.

Communication: 6 - Communication was good but could've been better, but due to my illness it was hard to communicate as my voice sounded as if it was going to go out and as mentioned in the beginning of the post, I had slight difficulty hearing other people due to my unclear hearing.

Motivation: 6 - My motivation dipped down here a bit only because of my illness, I found it struggling to get through the day but I didn't want to leave any work behind and was determined to stay in for the entire day. This will very hopefully improve once I revisit the university on the forthcoming Friday.

Summary

Would've been another good day if I was in good condition at the time but that doesn't mean it wasn't good, I did enjoy the day with the tasks I had to do as they were in an area of interest/experience. At the end of the day I didn't have much energy and went to sleep as soon as I got back and decided that it would be best to try and recover over the days as I wasn't in a good enough condition where I felt I could crack on with some work.