Research before
Before going to the one on one and talks but Intern Magazine, researching into the people running the event and people surrounding the event will be done. This is so when at the session i can ask more informed questions which will give off a better impression of myself as well as allow me to get the best out of the session.
career sessions are with alec dudson or
editor Hollie Myles or contributing illustrator Joe Boyd
alex dudson-
http://www.alecdudson.co.uk/writing/
Alec Dudson is Founder and Editor-in-chief of Intern Magazine1 and is based in Manchester, UK. He travels here and there giving talks and running workshops, writes for an array of publications, and develops special editorial/commercial projects under the Intern brand.
Hollie Myles-
http://cargocollective.com/hollie-myles
manchester achool of art
leeds art gallery
photography based work
Joe Boyd-
http://www.joeboydillustration.com/
Joe Boyd is a Leeds based freelance digital illustrator creating striking, conceptual illustration for editorial, advertising and culture sector clients.
won YCN price
won D&AD price
intern ingeneral -
http://intern-mag.com/
intern is a bi-annual independent print publication for and by the creative youth, To ensure that the are are truly for and by the creative youth, all of their output is either by or features the people they aim represent this means the magazine is target at young creative who need to take part ininterships.
question ideas-
hardship of working two jobs
bar jobs and late night mean not time for anything else?
in manchester/london the best place to do?
should i work for year save up then go live in manchester for year?
or should i another degree in viscom advertising and go a intern whilst doing this?
every had any bad intern ships?
does doing free work make it worse cause people expect it?
how to ask for pay?
Career Talk
My one to one talk was with Hollie the photography edit for the magazine, this was useful as it allowed me to analyse where to live when i finish uni, between manchester and leeds. As she started in manchester but moved to leeds it allowed me to discuss with someone why she did it, it turns out that for Hollie she found that both city have a busy art movement at the moment but she found Manchester is a more closed community so in harder to start off a new comer to this environment. She said that currently leeds has a wider range of places to network and meet people, like the event tonight free places to go to connect with people in the creative industry. We also talked about running two jobs, her self still does this to pay the rent ect as she said the fun work doesn't pay the bills, this is common feedback from artist, but we discussed how my bar experince will help me get a night time bar job i could do aside the main internship i might not get paid or get paid enough for.
We also discussed how to stand out, she said like on legal blonde you have to have your cv ect stand out, have it arty!Have aspects of my cv that will look different from the normal cv they receive, this could be the stock, the print, the text, simple little drawings ect on the work i send that'll give it more flare. This is something i should look into more for PPP and my personal branding.
The main way to connect with people and how to get jobs in this industry she states was through networking and keeping in-touch with people via networks, keep talking to people, keep asking people, go to events ect. This is so people don't forget you, you're contanstly at the top of their mind if any job come available, send out a newsletter every month with work you've done is a great way to do this, rather then just the normal boring email. Also she clearly told me not to be scared of sending emails, everyone is she said and she still is but this need to be done to get jobs, get over this fear or just pretend to.
This session was very very useful as it was a one to one session, i got 15 minutes to ask her anything i wanted to know, any question that related to my work and me rather than just in general questions. Hollie was a lovely open person who seems as happy to help me as anyone, this allowed me to gee information that i've been questioning personally for a while from a working professional in the field. Also the research before allowed me to get more defined answer to the questions i needed, this should be done before any interview/talk i go to in the future:)
Magazine Launch
After the one to one session was the launch of the magazine at the village bookstore, this was a time where professional collected to talk to Alec, Hollie and Joe in a more informal collection. The launch was from 6-9 and there was small talk at 7 from alec, He simply talked for a brief amout about the issues but especially about its ethics and aims, how he things everyone should paid for work and how its daily right robbery. It was nice to go to the magazine launch run by creatives as this shows how people dress at these type of events, how casual creative looks at these meeting, it relaxed current stresses i had about not looking 'professional' enough as everyone at the meeting looks like me. Everyone was dress smart casual but with a creative different look, they had a tattoos piercing ect and none of them where ashamed of these. In this industry dressing in a suit isn't needed but reflecting your creativity is. ARTIST SHOULD GET PAID AND SHOUDL LOOK LIKE CREATIVES
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