YEAR 2 - SEMESTER 2 - Work Experience
Now we are in Semester 2 of our second year the blogs are back!
This semester we are required to complete fifteen days of work experience and write a reflective blog about the various placements and experiences we encounter.
As I personally have a strong interest in pursuing a career within journalism I decided that I would like to complete some of these days at a newspaper. I contacted the local newspaper ‘The Weston Mercury’ about completing some work experience with them and they agreed to a week’s placement in March 2009.
I also contacted the ‘The Bristol Evening Post’ and they agreed to allow me to shadow a reporter for two days in April 2009.
Although I feel I want to achieve a career within journalism I wanted to get as much experience from this module as possible so I decided to apply for a week’s placement at a Production Company who my tutor suggested – ‘TwoFour’. ‘TwoFour’ agreed, allowing me to complete my work experience during the week commencing the 23rd February 2009.
Whilst I was researching for another placement to complete my remaining three days, the project ‘Across the Pond’ came about. One of our class members – Samantha Simmonds her partner Javier Ronceros is a film producer / director and is currently working on a project titled ‘Across the Pond’. Javier and his co-producer / director Brendan Flannery were flying over from L.A to work on this and needed crewmembers to assist with the project. Sam mentioned this to me and I volunteered to help with the project. This was great timing and a good opportunity to be able to have some involvement with a real project outside of Uni.
Once my work experience days were all organised all that was left for me to do was complete them, trying to gain as much experience and understanding of the working media industry as possible. All in which will help me try and focus my career in the right direction that’s best suited for me.
Picture Sources
http://www.nzedge.com/newzedge/newzedge_clare/logos/weston_somerset_
mercury.gif
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/content/twm/flatfiles/PrintEdition/
assets/WestonFront.jpg
http://www.papercutproductions.org.uk/images/bristol-evening-post-
logo.gif
http://www.twofour.co.uk/img/twofour-logo2.gif
This semester we are required to complete fifteen days of work experience and write a reflective blog about the various placements and experiences we encounter.
As I personally have a strong interest in pursuing a career within journalism I decided that I would like to complete some of these days at a newspaper. I contacted the local newspaper ‘The Weston Mercury’ about completing some work experience with them and they agreed to a week’s placement in March 2009.
I also contacted the ‘The Bristol Evening Post’ and they agreed to allow me to shadow a reporter for two days in April 2009.
Although I feel I want to achieve a career within journalism I wanted to get as much experience from this module as possible so I decided to apply for a week’s placement at a Production Company who my tutor suggested – ‘TwoFour’. ‘TwoFour’ agreed, allowing me to complete my work experience during the week commencing the 23rd February 2009.
Whilst I was researching for another placement to complete my remaining three days, the project ‘Across the Pond’ came about. One of our class members – Samantha Simmonds her partner Javier Ronceros is a film producer / director and is currently working on a project titled ‘Across the Pond’. Javier and his co-producer / director Brendan Flannery were flying over from L.A to work on this and needed crewmembers to assist with the project. Sam mentioned this to me and I volunteered to help with the project. This was great timing and a good opportunity to be able to have some involvement with a real project outside of Uni.
Once my work experience days were all organised all that was left for me to do was complete them, trying to gain as much experience and understanding of the working media industry as possible. All in which will help me try and focus my career in the right direction that’s best suited for me.
Picture Sources
http://www.nzedge.com/newzedge/newzedge_clare/logos/weston_somerset_
mercury.gif
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/content/twm/flatfiles/PrintEdition/
assets/WestonFront.jpg
http://www.papercutproductions.org.uk/images/bristol-evening-post-
logo.gif
http://www.twofour.co.uk/img/twofour-logo2.gif
posted by Keely @ 04:12
2 Comments:
At 2 April 2009 at 07:13 ,
Kim Brooke said...
7 links, 4 x logos. The links all work, the text is a good description of planning the work experience. The logos are good, keep it up.
At 21 June 2009 at 03:53 ,
Kim Brooke said...
4 of links are picture refs
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