Catch Up Over The Past Week 11/2/13 - 15/2/13

So on monday we had a CV writing workshop, to help us write a winning CV. Giving us pointers on what we need to include in our CVS and what not too. Also at the workshop our tutors explained what modules we may have next year and also about finding work placements, a placement that has been offered to us is;

• At Lime Pictures
• Variety of Roles Available 
• Two Weeks Paid Placements
• 6 Places Available 

I’ve typed up my CV and covering letter, just need to check over them before submitting them. I think I would really enjoy this placement, having a work experience will help me make up my mind about what I would like to do after uni!

On the Tuesday I had a personal tutor meeting with Camilla, catching up on how I’m finding uni. What I would like to be doing once I’ve graduated from uni. Ways of helpling me with things, I may be stuck on while at uni. Before the meeting I thought that it wouldn’t be helpful, but a 15 minute meeting turned into a half an hour meeting. I didn’t realise I could talk that much. I felt so much better after having the meeting, it has made me look forward to what is next in my life. (I know slightly cheesy).

On the Thursday we had a writing workshop, to help us understand how to write academic essays. Also how to move up a couple of marks with our writing. The tips that I found out in this workshop, I’ll keep for my up and coming reports, essays, dissertations etc.

Digital Media Cultures

So as I mentioned in a previous post, that myself and Hayley had planned our report. Well today was the day we started and completed our report about each of the journals about TV Formats. Having a plan made it so much easier as we knew what we had to do! We planned that we would have two journals each to talk about and then we would talk about the last journal together. I enjoyed the way we worked as a team, as we got the report done in plenty of time. Which means we don’t have to worry about the report and sending it off.

Convergence Media Teamwork

Todays session consisted of us getting our brief set, our brief is split into two tasks; 

• Task 1 - Presentation 15-20 minutes 50% (Due 28th March)
• Task 1a - Personal Contribution To Team 10%
• Task 2 - Individual Report 40%

We have been asked to decide whether to create a trans media story, by taking a fairytale and adapting it. OR to create a transmedia campaign about something we are upset about. As none of us in our group could think about something we were angry about, we decided to adapt a fairytale. The one we chose was little red riding hood, as a group we decided to create a Facebook group so that we can develop our idea and also be able to put all our research information in one place. There is still a lot of development needed on our idea, which we will do over the next couple of days/weeks. Personally I think this assignment seems like its going to be fun!

Digital Media Cultures

So today all we had to do was to turn up to a meeting with Keith our tutor, to discuss the report. He helped to give us a format to follow when writing our report, giving us ideas how to start the report and how to conclude the report about the five articles we had found. After the meeting we decided as a group to have a team meeting and to come up with a plan before we start writing our report. After sorting our report plan we decided that we would write our report after our lecture on Thursday. I’m looking forward to starting it now, I don’t feel as stressed as I normally do when writing essays or reports, maybe because I’m doing this report with a partner!