Creative Futures Week, Day 2

Today, the 1st session I attend was "Creativity in the real world- How I make a living from Death" by Violet Fenn. She explained how she got into hobby of publishing photography of dead people on her website "The Skull Illusion". Also, she is designing her own jewelries which she inspired by the photos. We have been shown many examples of her work. She quoted "Be Curious" and advised to start selling our works on the internet. The fallowing session was "Getting a job" by Wendy Rees from BBC Wales. After her graduation from Aberystwth University in law, she wasn't looking for a job on her area. Coincidentally she got offered a job from S4C. After she joined the BBC to work in HR. We have been given a lot of tips to get a job in BBC. She talked about the job and trainee opportunities in the BBC. Session finished with watching some TV series of the BBC Wales produced. In the afternoon we had "Piece to camera" by Matthew Richards from BBC. He talked about "How to piece camera works?, How to look?, How to speak?, How to storm out?". Also we did few exercises about interviews. The presentation was very clear, understandable, explained with lots of different videos. We got so many advises about how to interview with the people, what is the bad interview and good interview examples are. The last session of the day was "Studying and working abroad through Erasmus" by Stewart Milne. He talked everything about Erasmus such as " What we need to apply?, How to apply?, Who can go?, Financing, Which countries and schools are available?", there was meant to be a student going to share how she has gone through Erasmus. However, she was unable to attend but we have been given some sheets to read about people's experiences. Today's lectures were all very enjoyable. The most i interested in was "Piece to camera". I loved learning about interviews, seeing various of different examples.

Glyndwr University, Creative Futures Week 5-9 March 2012

Creative Futures Week, 5-9 March 2012, Glyndwr University

5 March 2012

Today, i started the day by attending the lectures in William Aston Hall. Unfortunately Professor Maurice Cockrill RCA wasn't able to attend due to his health issues. We had a lecture about William Shakespeare's life. To follow that Angus Montgomery, editor of weekly publication Design week gave some advice about how to promote ourselves, how to make ourselves appealing and how to break into industry. He shared many different quotes such as; "Design is a special skill.", "You need to be collaborative", and "You have to love what you do." by him. He showed us many examples of successful artists; 300 million campaign; Stop sex trafficking of children and young people, One laptop per child, Plumen light bulbs, Your journey through A&E, B&W studio, Resonate and some students; Sam Grey, print work 'Vertigo', Allen Cloack with Olympic Games Project. In the afternoon I attend to Copyright lecture by Janet Jones. She has given suggestions about how to avoid copyright, protecting our copyright. There were 4 myths about it; copyright can protect my ideas, post your work to yourself to prove copyright, I can use %10 of original materiel without infringing copyright, everything on the internet is in the public domain and so free to use. Also some students in the theater shared the problems that they faced before such as; a guy who makes websites had a client, he copied something o his website and it was checked and seen that it had copyright, he has been sued by the company who had the copyright of it. However it wasn't his fault. He struggled to get it sorted and persuade to company. Following lecture i attend was "Getting started in Photography" with Paul Hermann is the photographer and the director of Redeye Photography. There were a lot of quotes he shared like; "Work hard and be nice to people." on Wallpaper, "Logic, rhetoric and maths." by Iain Bennett. He talked about "What do top photographers have in common?", "How the photography fees should be applied?", "21 things you can do". That was the last lecture of the day. I   found all the talks beneficial but the most i enjoyed was about the photography due to my interest in photography.