- How I would be treated in a placement.
- What to expect from a placement.
- That industry experience is so vital.
- That simply buying a desk could prove so much motivation.
Things I would address differently than I did this summer:
- When on a placement sometimes communication is key, if I feel something is wrong, I should address the creative director or a colleague, not sit in silence expecting the problem to solve itself.
- I would have gone home. Staying in Leeds alone all summer wasn't as productive as I thought it would be, it was lonely and depressing and left me in a rut.
- Do placements longer than a week, after 5 days I felt I was just getting into the swing of things. A week just isn't long enough.
- Travel, you can get so much inspiration from simply visiting another city or country for a few days.
- Visit places with peers, its so much more comfortable to do a studio visit with a friend rather than on your own.
Specific things you will address this semester, that should be useful:
- Plan specifically in advance and stick to it - Time management and organisation.
- Confidence to talk to people. Within the PPD presentations, few told us of how they rang up studios and by simply talking on the phone, by having an immediate contact, they found it much easier to organise and visit studios.
- Staying late to work. Although I may feel tired and hungry, once the uni day finishes at 4, I am my most productive.
- Sleep. I. Do. Not. Sleep. If I have work I'm panicking about, or things going on in my head its such an issue I can't sleep. I need to stick to my time planning and to do lists, write things on my mind down before I go to bed. I need sleep to function.
- Prioritise Uni over everything. Its my last year, a night out every week on the trot isn't going to do me justice, sometimes you have to sacrifice.
Things you feel as a group we could address:
- Talking. Many of us have a similar style of work to people we just don't talk to. By recommending websites, studios etc its going to help everyone, including yourself.
- Talk about Location? Whether to think about places other than where your home is? Is London really the only option?
- What happens after uni? What are the options? Everyones a bit wary and undecided as to whats going to happen and how much opportunity there is.
Things you feel we have not looked at in PPD you personally would like to know in reference to professionalism:
- Personally I feel my work evokes 'Freelancer' but I don't want to throw myself in the deep end and start off on my own. What are the options?
- There doesn't seem to be many image based studios, many look at type and layout. Is there much demand for those who's skills lie in image making.
