Placement Report

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Shoot Experience

Work Placement Report

By Sunita Grant

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Contents4 0- Intro: My placement- context is half of the work8 I- Career tools10 cv12 cover letter14 online portfolio30 II- Project Outline with images32 section I36 section II38 section III40 III- Use of social media

Intro: My Placement - Context is half of the work

Career Tools

C.V

Cover Letter

Project Outline

Use of Social Media

0- Intro: My placement- context is half of the work

as an alternative to paper publishing we will be using the platform issuu.com for a digital report.

http://issuu.com

for that you need to open an account and upload the pdfthis a template Icontains the required sections

0-Intro-identifying your placement site and, how your placement follows the APG concept that ‘context is half of the work’,

1-career management

the creative cv, targeted cover letter and electronic portfolio you developed to apply to your placements

2-project outline (outline of your visual work with examples)

the outline you devised for your placement project, which identifies photos, methods/techniques and resources and you used to develop your placement project

3-use of social media (documentation of your use of twitter) (web 2.0) applications like twitter and/or facebook to expand your learning and professional net work

each one worth 25% of your mark.

{for your report, keep the title and replace the text in the body with your own introduction]

After a long time searching for a placement, with a few

disappointments on the way, I finally got offered to do a placement with

a photography events company based in shoreditch, east london.

They have been established in the Uk since 2005, and offer the

following; photography workshops and courses, photography treasure

hunts, corporate team building events and photography competitions.

They also represent commercial photographers and have an online photo

library.

After meeting with the company’s creator and owner, it was clear that

my role would involve numerous things and that my duties would change

day to day. What I understood was that I would be helping them

prepare for upcoming events, and that My role would involve a mixture

of creative and administrative tasks.

The aim for the project was to experience another job role within the

photography industry that wasn’t a photographer. This is because I

had never had first hand experience of a job working with a

photography company, rather than independently, so I wanted to see

how well I would work creatively with a team.

The first job that I was given was to research twitter (as no one in the company knew what it was about) and set up an account for the company. I wrote them a report, and I was in charge of all aspects of the company’s twitter, including writings tweets and ‘following’ industry contacts.

The first job tha

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the company knew how to use it) and then to set up a twitter account

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owing’ industry contacts. given was to research twitter (as no one in the company knew what it was about) and set up an account for the com-pany. I wrote them a report, and I was in charge of all aspects of the company’s twitter, including writings tweets and ‘following’ industry contacts.

The first job that I was given was to research twitter (as no one in the company knew what it was about) and set up an account for the company. I wrote them a report, and I was in charge of all aspects of the company’s twitter, including writings tweets and ‘following’ industry contacts.

The first job tha

t I was he first job that I was given was to research twitter (as no one in the company knew what it was about)

and set upThe first task that I was given was to reserahc twitter (as no one in

the company knew how to use it) and then to set up a twitter account

for the company. the company. I wrote them a report, and I was in charge of all aspects of the compa-ny’s twitter, including writings tweets anThe first job that I was given was to research twitter (as no one in the company knew what it was about) and set up an account for the company. I wrote them a report, and I was in charge of all aspects of the company’s twitter, including writings tweets and ‘following’ industry contacts.

d ‘follThe first job that I was given was to research twitter (as no one in the company knew what it was about) and set up an account for the company. I wrote them a report, and I was in charge of all aspects of the company’s twitter, including writings tweets and ‘following’ industry contacts.

owing’ industry contacts. given was to research twitter (as no one in the company knew what it was about) and set up an account for the com-pany. I wrote them a report, and I was in charge of all aspects of the company’s twitter, including writings tweets and ‘following’ industry contacts.

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Research on Twitter

Setting up and Handling your account

Setting up an account is simple enough, and you can just enter your basic information in your profile if you wish (just name and email), but it says the more information you add, the more likely you are to come up in searches and therefore gain more followers (followers are the equivalent of friends on Facebook). Ad-ditional information that it is possible to add include location, other websites you may have, and (one line) about yourself.

You can also set up your mobile up with twitter or your blackberry (not so creatively called ‘twitterberry’) and update your profile from either of these devices, which seems to be particularly popular with celebri-ties that want to clear up rumours extra quickly!

It is also possible to monitor who’s following you or any messages received, via email or text, and can set your account to ‘nudge’ you by text when you haven’t updated for 24 hours.

How to search and be found

People can find you through searches, or by looking through the list of whom other people are following. The search option, searches through the most recent relevant updates, with a small section at the side that will match users by those words. Shoot Experience will only come up in the matching users section if writ-ten exactly as it is on the twitter profile name, which is shootexperience. So unless a person is particularly looking for the company and/or write it like this, we won’t come up in the ‘matching users’ section with the name written as it is at the moment. If it is written as two words the most recent updates with these two words will come up. It’s clear more updates equals more search results and followers!

There are a lot of users and even more updates being made every second. I updated my profile by writing ‘just joined’ and a few second later searched ‘just joined’ which was top of the results. However 20 minutes later I just about made it onto the bottom of the second results page. Okay, so ‘just joined’ must be a com-mon phrase written on twitter, but it still gives an example of how fast things move on there.

‘Find people’ is useful if you already know the first, last or profile name of whom you’re trying to find. This will probably be the least likely way that a profile is found unless it is a well-known celebrity or com-pany, e.g. Paris Hilton or The Guardian.

Interacting with others

By now it has become very clear that on twitter it’s all about updating! People that are following you get your updates on their page and vice versa. You only have 140 characters to write your update, so being straight to the point is definitely a must!

You can send a message to someone by going onto their page and going to ‘actions’ and clicking on ‘mes-sage’. This will go straight to their direct messages that only they can see. If you reply to an update that someone has posted, this will appear on your own profile as an update.,

Company to company interaction doesn’t seem like it really goes on. Twitter seems to be more about com-pany to client, or celebrity to fan interaction. So most big names have thousands following them, but they are following much less (usually under a hundred). These people are usually business contacts.

How Twitter can be used for Shoot Experience

It seems that company twitter profiles work best in conjunction with other websites, so twitter functions as an additional website rather the main one.It’s good for getting out information or reminders quickly. For example if an event’s coming up, a twitter update with a line or so about the event, with a link to the main website for that event.

For people interested in the company it’s easy and straightforward to find out what’s going on, as there aren’t the thousand of distracting applications that Facebook has!

It also seems beneficial to be connected to people that have been or are currently involved with the company. It keeps them in the know with what Shoot Experience are doing without them even going out of their way! This would hopefully get or keep people interested, and generate more business.

Twitter pages that work well

HYPERLINK "http://www.twitter.com/magnumphotos" www.twitter.com/magnumphotos

HYPERLINK "http://www.twitter.com/photomonthly" www.twitter.com/photomonthly

HYPERLINK "http://www.twitter.com/elle_com" www.twitter.com/elle_com

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cover letter

I had to Key word photographs for the online photo library, which I I also learned how analyse photographs in a way in which I wasn’t

enjoyed at first ,but was a very time consuming job as I had to be so used to. Since it was for the public, I had take take them into

thorough. It quickly became tedious, but was a job that I thought I consideration more so than producing my own work, as often artists

did well . produce their work for themselves.

Other tasks I did includided press listings, writing emails and letters,

help select winning photographs, sourcing contact detials, organise camera

equipment, run errand e.g pick of photogtaphs from a gallery,

I had to Key word photographs for the online photo library, which I I also learned how analyse photographs in a way in which I wasn’t

enjoyed at first ,but was a very time consuming job as I had to be so used to. Since it was for the public, I had take take them into

thorough. It quickly became tedious, but was a job that I thought I consideration more so than producing my own work, as often artists

did well . produce their work for themselves.

Other tasks I did includided press listings, writing emails and letters,

help select winning photographs, sourcing contact detials, organise camera

equipment, run errand e.g pick of photogtaphs from a gallery,

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online portfolio

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1 Ensure you use Capitalization - cities, places, people

2 Americanization - add uk and us spellings eg color, colour, grey, gray, organize, organise

3 Spelling - look for words underlined in red

4 Think about first a factual representation of what you see

5 Then think laterally - are there any other words similar to the ones you have added that you can think of dog - canine, man’s best friend,

eg, for this photo - http://www.shootbank.net/admin/tagging/13631/25/id/Y/all/all/all/75/all/all/all/25 think - love, companionship, togetherness, relationship, relationship, city, destination, friendship

6 Ensure you add dig, digging, digger, dug etc....

7 Make sure that KEY phrases you use in title and description are duplicated in the keywords

8 You must repeat what’s in the title in the description

TITLES Keep simple and factual - what, when, where, how and why

DESCRIPTION Keep simple and factual - what, when, where, how and why

KEYWORDS Copy and paste all the KEY words from the description, then: think - love, companionship, togetherness, relationship, relationship, city, destination, friendship • Are there any emotions that you can add - friendship, anguish, confusion etc • When you think you have finished with the keywords, then look at the Title and Description to see if there are any key ideas that you added to the Keywords that can be added to Title and Description.

Think professions: If a person is working a on a car, make sure you you put the word mechanic in the keywords at the very least... and in the title and keywords too if you think it relevant

1 Ensure you use Capitalization - cities, places, people

2 Americanization - add uk and us spellings eg color, colour, grey, gray, organize, organise

3 Spelling - look for words underlined in red

4 Think about first a factual representation of what you see

5 Then think laterally - are there any other words similar to the ones you have added that you can think of dog - canine, man’s best friend,

eg, for this photo - http://www.shootbank.net/admin/tagging/13631/25/id/Y/all/all/all/75/all/all/all/25 think - love, companionship, togetherness, relationship, relationship, city, destination, friendship

6 Ensure you add dig, digging, digger, dug etc....

7 Make sure that KEY phrases you use in title and description are duplicated in the keywords

8 You must repeat what’s in the title in the description

TITLES Keep simple and factual - what, when, where, how and why

DESCRIPTION Keep simple and factual - what, when, where, how and why

KEYWORDS Copy and paste all the KEY words from the description, then: think - love, companionship, togetherness, relationship, relationship, city, destination, friendship • Are there any emotions that you can add - friendship, anguish, confusion etc • When you think you have finished with the keywords, then look at the Title and Description to see if there are any key ideas that you added to the Keywords that can be added to Title and Description.

Think professions: If a person is working a on a car, make sure you you put the word mechanic in the keywords at the very least... and in the title and keywords too if you think it relevant

ALL KEYWORDS MUST BE SEPARATED BY COMMAS!!

South Bank write as South Bank and SouthbankWhen adding Portobello, also add Notting HillDon’t use punctuation in title description, keywords

DO NOT DO THE FOLLOWING EVER!!!!Put words like “close up”., “ambiguous, abstracted..” etc... in the Title or Description ....these words must go in the KEYWORDS only.Don’t guess - be as factual as you can - don’t say its dawn in the Title if you are unsure - but by all means put dawn and dusk in the keywords...http://dev.shootbank.eu/admin/tagging/15705/25/id/Y/all/all/all/102/all/all/all/0

LOOK OUT FORPlease ask Brett about the following types of photos as they should be excluded from the photo library - these include:Photos with people’s credit cards or personal details in themPhotos with young people and children that look younger than 16

Where there is a tube, bus, London Transport sign, pls put this as keywords and “Transport, for, London”Add in Notes: This photo requires Transport For London’s permission to reproduce commercially.

Where there is a reconisable brand or product we add to Notes:This photo will require permission from the brand owner when reproducing commercially.

We don’t include logos!

the word ‘photo’ should ever go anywhere unless there is actually a photo in the photo

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• TEAM for any team photo • WELL BEING for healthy looking foods, people doing sporty things etc • TRANSPORTATION • COMMUNICATION • ENVIRONMENT

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This photo will require permission from the brand owners when reproducing commercially.

This photo requires Transport For London’s permission to reproduce commercially.

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ENVIRONMENT environment, environmental, environmentalist, environmentally, friendly, conservation, conserve, carbon, footprint, nature, natural, power, powerful, renewable, source, energy, alternative, alternate, sustainable, sustainability, green, planet, save, recycle, recycled, recycling, reuse, reduce,

COMMUNICATION communicate, communication, telephony, telephone, phone, phones, call, bell, ring, technology, speak, speaker, speaking, talk, talking, converse, conversation, pay, box, public, chat, chatting, handset, hand, set, cell, cellular, mobile,

TRANSPORTATION travel, traveling, travelling, commute, commuter, commuting, journey, going, places, transport, transportation, passenger, passengers, drive, driver, ride, rider, pillion, public, private, trip,

You could add environmental words here too if appropriate: green, economical, eco-friendly, carbon, footprint, emissions, CO2, congestion, traffic, jam, environment, global, warming,

TEAM team, effort, teamwork, work, working, together, cooperation, participation, players

WELL BEING vitality, health, well, being, well-being, wellness, healthy, fit, life, zest, for, living,

• TEAM for any team photo • WELL BEING for healthy looking foods, people doing sporty things etc • TRANSPORTATION • COMMUNICATION • ENVIRONMENT

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This photo will require permission from the brand owners when reproducing commercially.

This photo requires Transport For London’s permission to reproduce commercially.

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ENVIRONMENT environment, environmental, environmentalist, environmentally, friendly, conservation, conserve, carbon, footprint, nature, natural, power, powerful, renewable, source, energy, alternative, alternate, sustainable, sustainability, green, planet, save, recycle, recycled, recycling, reuse, reduce,

COMMUNICATION communicate, communication, telephony, telephone, phone, phones, call, bell, ring, technology, speak, speaker, speaking, talk, talking, converse, conversation, pay, box, public, chat, chatting, handset, hand, set, cell, cellular, mobile,

TRANSPORTATION travel, traveling, travelling, commute, commuter, commuting, journey, going, places, transport, transportation, passenger, passengers, drive, driver, ride, rider, pillion, public, private, trip,

You could add environmental words here too if appropriate: green, economical, eco-friendly, carbon, footprint, emissions, CO2, congestion, traffic, jam, environment, global, warming,

TEAM team, effort, teamwork, work, working, together, cooperation, participation, players

WELL BEING vitality, health, well, being, well-being, wellness, healthy, fit, life, zest, for, living,

YOUTH CULTURE skate, board, skating, boarding, teen, kid, kids, teenager, teenagers, youth, urban, street, culture, sport, extreme, skaters, young,

SIGNAGE communication, communicate, signage, signs, sign, icons, icon, iconography, information, info, informative ========== ========== ==========

OLYMPICS Olympics, Olympic, Olympian, Olympians, 2012, twenty, twelve, English, England, UK, British, Britain, sport, sporting, game, games, host, city, five, rings, nation, East, London,

LONDON EYE the, London, Eye, wheel, Millennium, attraction, Southwark, South, Bank, Southbank, tourism, tourist, local,

TOURISM tourists, tourist, local, tourism, sites, site-seeing, landmark, visit, visiting, visitors, galleries, gallery, museum, museums, London, holiday, vacation, makers, icon, site, iconic, symbol,

SECURITY security, camera, CCTV, closed, circuit, television, big, brother, film, TV, watch, surveillance, protect, spying, safe, safety, authority, nanny, state, privacy, invasion, intelligence, secret, service, society, spies, control, controlling

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Dear Sir or Madam

Re: Job application

I am applying for the operations assistant position that you currently have available in your organisation.

I am currently a BA (hons) student at London South Bank University, and am available to work full or part time hours during the summer, and thereafter part time.

I am an intellectual individual with a lot of ambition, determination and a will to work. I feel that I differ to other individuals in terms of my attributes and skills. For example my personality, I am outgoing and vibrant and I have a positive outlook on life and how to work effectively with others and in all environments of work.

My skills and attributes that I have gained from my education and employment are more than satisfactory for the job, the skills I have acquired include:

Good organisational skills and time management Excellent quality of service e.g. with customers, clients and work A friendly and professional manner

I know that I can bring a broad spectrum of skills due to my determination including:-

My continual strive for success Easily adapting in many situations My enthusiasm and eagerness to learn

I alway s use my own judgement and initiative to make informed and effective decisions. I am a very approachable and social individual with my peers and people in general, and maintain a well m annered behaviour, decorum and presentable dress sense.

I have enclosed a copy of my curriculum vitae for your review. I would like to have the opportunity to further discuss this position with you. Please contact me on 07940 964 909 or by email “mailto:[email protected]” [email protected] . I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincrely,

Sunita Grant

Dear Sir or Madam

Re: Job application

I am applying for the operations assistant position that you currently have available in your organisation.

I am currently a BA (hons) student at London South Bank University, and am available to work full or part time hours during the summer, and thereafter part time.

I am an intellectual individual with a lot of ambition, determination and a will to work. I feel that I differ to other individuals in terms of my attributes and skills. For example my personality, I am outgoing and vibrant and I have a positive outlook on life and how to work effectively with others and in all environments of work.

My skills and attributes that I have gained from my education and employment are more than satisfactory for the job, the skills I have acquired include:

Good organisational skills and time management Excellent quality of service e.g. with customers, clients and work A friendly and professional manner

I know that I can bring a broad spectrum of skills due to my determination including:-

My continual strive for success Easily adapting in many situations My enthusiasm and eagerness to learn

I alway s use my own judgement and initiative to make informed and effective decisions. I am a very approachable and social individual with my peers and people in general, and maintain a well m annered behaviour, decorum and presentable dress sense.

I have enclosed a copy of my curriculum vitae for your review. I would like to have the opportunity to further discuss this position with you. Please contact me on 07940 964 909 or by email “mailto:[email protected]” [email protected] . I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincrely,

Sunita Grant

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The placement was not what I expected it to be. Altough I did help

prepare for events as I tought, the tasks that needed to be carried out

were usually fairly straight forward and quite tedious. I did not feel

that I was challeneged enough. I hoped that I would be able to use

my creative skills and photography knowelged, but I learned that these

skills were not eseesntial to have for the job role I was doing.

Another down side to the placement was that I felt expoited. Although

I understand that usualyl placements are unpaid and I did not expect to

get paid, I felt that this company used it as a way of saving money.The

company was very small, and could’ve benefited from a lote more

employees, however they constantly had people on work placement

instead.

Nonetheless I tried take as much the experience as possible and use it

as a positive. I learned the importance as being thorough with all my

work, no matter how big or small the task. I also found that liasing

with clients and contacts plays an important role and kept a proffesional

manner at all times. Most importantly I learned that this is not the

job I wish to pursure in the future. I would enjoy more and be best

suited to a job where I am require to give more creative input, so for

these reasons feel that my time at Shoot Experience was usccessful.

The placement was not what I expected it to be. Altough I did help

prepare for events as I tought, the tasks that needed to be carried out

were usually fairly straight forward and quite tedious. I did not feel

that I was challeneged enough. I hoped that I would be able to use

my creative skills and photography knowelged, but I learned that these

skills were not eseesntial to have for the job role I was doing.

Another down side to the placement was that I felt expoited. Although

I understand that usualyl placements are unpaid and I did not expect to

get paid, I felt that this company used it as a way of saving money.The

company was very small, and could’ve benefited from a lote more

employees, however they constantly had people on work placement

instead.

Nonetheless I tried take as much the experience as possible and use it

as a positive. I learned the importance as being thorough with all my

work, no matter how big or small the task. I also found that liasing

with clients and contacts plays an important role and kept a proffesional

manner at all times. Most importantly I learned that this is not the

job I wish to pursure in the future. I would enjoy more and be best

suited to a job where I am require to give more creative input, so for

these reasons feel that my time at Shoot Experience was usccessful.

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PHA09 Next event coming up, SHOOT LONDON at Tate

Modern http://www.shootexperience....4:05 AM Apr 6th from

web

PHA09 Sourcing contact addresses to send them a new product3:54

AM Apr 6th from web

pha09 Company twitter page, set up and updated by myself!! www.

twitter.com/shootexperi...4:12 AM Apr 2nd from web

pha09 Finally finished Press Listings, now onto keywording...4:10

AM Apr 2nd from web

pha09 Just got back from posting letters and packages, now back to

press listings7:39 AM Mar 30th from web

ph09 Just finished selecting photos, picked out he best 60 or so.

Lunchtime now, wonder what I’ll be doing this afternoon?5:08 AM

Mar 30th from web

PHA09 Has seen quite a few interesting photographs so far... 4:53

AM Mar 30th from web

#PHA09 Going through photographs and selecting the best ones that

relate to gender.3:50 AM Mar 30th from web

PHA09 checking file names3:04 AM Mar 30th from web

pha09 I’ve laminated the day away!9:57 AM Mar 26th from web

pha09 more press listings......4:30 AM Mar 26th from web

pha09 Charging and setting up cameras for this Saturdays event3:18

AM Mar 26th from web

pha09 www.twitter.com/shootexperi...3:07 AM Mar 26th from

web

PHA09 Has been doing press listings all day. It takes so long!8:56

AM Mar 23rd from web

PHA09 I’m doing press listings now. It’s not hard but, but is tak-

ing me long!8:49 AM Mar 19th from web

PHA09 I’m updating my company’s twitter6:47 AM Mar 19th

from web

PHA09 My second day at my placement. I’ve been using excel...I

haven’t used that since I was about 13!!6:43 AM Mar 19th from

web

pha09 My first day at my placement is going well! What a co-inkydink

that im using twitter for work and for this unit!5:14 AM Mar 16th

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