Sept/Oct Round up

Global Campus Studio

-So far we covered a lot of topics to do with marketing and target audience.

-I collaborated with some student from Toronto to complete a task focusing on cultural differences which could affect global marketing. We set up a zoom meeting and talked about our surroundings and cultural differences.

-I also completed a sprint which focused on developing a social media strategy to introduce a local product to a foreign market. I chose Empire Magazine and the foreign market was China.

InMotion

Day 1:

Bringing stories to Life Panel  

Giovanna Ferrari 

Cartoon Saloon. Made a short film 

Get friends to share creative projects with to force you to create 

Patrick Mchale 

-Director of over the garden wall and worked on adventure time 

Has a notebook of ideas that he never looks back on 

Sets a timer for 20 minutes where he stares at a blank page, where he can write or either stare 

When there is no deadline, creat one 

Mikey Please

Wacom Demonstration Panel 

JuanPe Arroyo 

Director Artist Animator 

The Line

Hundred deaths of peck 

MovinkPad Pro showcase 

-mainly looks at personal work 

Shows they know what they are doing 

Loish – Bringing sketch to life 

Framestore Panel: httyd 

Kayn Garcia– animation supervisor

Day 2:

Cartoon Saloon 

Showcased Eiru

-Giovanna Ferrari was the director (Italian) 

-mostly target young audience and create short films and shows 

-Paul Young became a producer as he was the one always answering the phone when the company just started out 

-Brigid (important in Irish folklore) 

-Focus on nature and Irish traditions/geography 

Portfolio Review With Framestore 

-Blender is bad apparently bad and Maya and 4D is preferable

-Add text to frames on website to “take them on a journey” 

– they go to graduate shows 

K pop demon hunters panel 

Maggie Kang 

Chris Appelhans

Wanted to make something Korean, at first came up with demon hunters and then went through everything very Korean and landed on K-pop. 

After Effects Training

Career Fair

-Met Amy Backwell and distributed my CV to ILM and other companies. I was mostly interested in ILM as other companies were irrelevant to what I did.

Interview Talk (Notes)

Prepare a list of questions. -> shows organization 

Research culture: corporate or laid back 

Research the company and base questions on that. For example “company values” “you said you give back to the community, how do you do that?” 

There are diff interview types:

Face to face 

Telephone 

Group (they monitor how you work in a group, can volunteer to time keep) 

Assessment canters 

Panel interview 

Vid application 

-Talk about your values

Spec application 

-Ask them for an interview 

-make an impression by attaching video 

-follow up 

Call

-“wanted to make sure you have my details” 

If you have online interview: put up posted notes 

When making statements:explain how 

I’m disciplined- I set an alarm and do this task every day without fail 

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