Work in the Media Industries - Katie

After having to go into isolation and many of the plans particularly to do with grad projects seemed to disappear due to the virus. I started to use my spare time to try and learn some new things by myself. I have been wanting to learn how to use some more Adobe software packages but had previously not had the time. I now decided to try and teach myself how to use Adobe Animate. I linked the final piece on my Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6647202330976501760/ To create the piece I reinforced my current knowledge in photoshop to create some of the content. I then imported this into Animate and then used YouTube tutorial and also played with the software myself to create the very basic final piece. If the current situation remains, I aim to continue learning how to use Animate to create a larger project and will also extend this to other software that would be beneficial to my future career.

In an attempt to gain more practical experience I started looking at helping on grad projects. One person that contacted me was Lewis Stride, my PAL leader from level 4. We discussed the project and what I could do and my roles were decided as behind the Scenes Photographer, Videographer and editor for the BTS segment and Runner. In preparation I researched into the Canon 6D which would be the camera that I would use. Filming was due to commence during reading week (2nd March) however due to issues surrounding the puppets, filming has been suspended and we are now awaiting new filming dates. Emily Cox was part of a lecture discussing internships and Grad projects, I put my Name forward for  her project. The role that I intended to fill was again behind the scenes photographer. Approximate filming dates are for the end of March and Beginning of April and I am currently waiting to hear back with confirmation.

For the stories and spaces unit, I worked with my group to create a projected experimental piece. I saw this as a perfect example to use to begin using Linkedin in the way it is intended and shared the process behind the project. Here I was able to interact with others on the course doing the same and also see what work they were doing. This highlighted the benefit of group interaction and how sometimes it is indeed necessary to extend the number of people working on a project. Without a larger group things such as deadlines may not have been met, particularly due to the many layers running alongside each other such as the technical programming, projector content creation and prop creation.