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Experience the world of work – or lack of
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Uni Life, University
The time has arrived for me to find a placement.
As part of the second year for my university course, I have to find a placement with a media company for 6 weeks. My portfolio is now presentable and deemed worthy of employer consumption. Using a fantastic post from Meetdraw (linky) I collected a list of names of the various companies that work in the South East. After researching each company in depth I sent off personalised cover emails to each company along with a CV and links to this portfolio website.
Well after about two weeks of waiting after I sent a batch of emails off, I received only two replies… I thought this was a little disappointing, particularly as these are media companies that are supposed to be hot on customer interaction and gain most of their business through email. Whether they could not be bothered to reply, deleted the email or just never received it, I won’t know for sure, but I am to start calling around and following them up in the next few days and hopefully I will get a better response…
…Wish me luck, every extremity on my body is crossed
Tags: call, companies, email, job, Meetdraw, placement, portfolio, research, University, waiting
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Blog Theme Change
Friday, April 30th, 2010 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Uni Life, University
As those of you that follow can probably tell by now (absence of blog posts since last update might be a slight hint), I have a laptop once again. Due to the ash cloud that ground the majority of Europe to a halt Apple were not able to ship a replacement part to me (heatsink if you wanted to know, to stop the overheating problems). So instead they gave me a new laptop from their new lineup (15″ Core i5)
So with a new laptop and a fresh slate I am slowly clearing up all the folders and organising myself. (Spring is here after all, might as well do a bit of spring cleaning)
Along with cleaning up my laptop, I will clean up my website a bit too… I will be refreshing my portfolio with more recent (and more pretty) work that is much better than the work that is up there currently. Along with that, I will be changing this blog theme to match the rest of the website (I am sure some of you wondered why it looked odd in comparison).
Other than that, the essay for my media options has been finished. Went pretty well but I wish I had spent a bit more time looking for some more solid theory… Not easy finding theory for documentary though.
I had a pitch session as part of the university course. Was definitely interesting teaming up with TV production and scriptwriter courses again. We had to make a company and do a theoretical pitch to a big company over a particular event. We went for TOPSHOP and created a theoretical event that could take place in London and New York, with a competition on which city could dress up a theoretical model best. The theoretical winners could then win theoretical TOPSHOP clothes. The event would be held on a theoretical stage with large theoretical LED screens in Times Square and Trafalgar Square. We had a theoretical budget of £100,000 too!
Ok enough of the theoretical crap, you get the point. But yea, interesting event and gives insight on how best to approach a company and pitch yourself to them… Now all that I need to do is sort out my placement for this year
Anyone fancy giving me a 6 week job placement? Preferably paid but I am not fussy 
Anybody???
Thought not….
Tags: apple, blog, cleaning, core i5, event, job, laptop, media, new, options, placement, scriptwriters, spring, square, theme, time, topshop, trafalgar, tv, website
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Im back
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Humour, Uni Life, University
I can’t help but say I told you so!
Sorry I just had to get that out of my system. At the start of this blog I said it wouldn’t take long before it went stale. However, after a considerable break I am back and writing another blog post. The last post left off with me finishing year 1 at uni. I am now well into year 2 and I have almost finished it!
Yes it has been that long since posts! But without much further delays and without going into all the stuff that I have been up to (because quite frankly it would be boring) I will update you with that I am currently working on.
Behold the games project! A twelve week assignment in groups of 4 or 5 with the aim to create some sort of interactive game in either Unity3D or Flash. What initially started off as being a simple project in my eyes has turned out to be a lot more difficult that I imaginged.
As with all my projects my ambitions far surpass my abilities but with the help from the rest of the group we may once again be victorious!
That is if I don’t collapse in a heap in the uni mac labs a bumbling mumbling idiot due to the sheer amount of scripting that has to be done.
The reason why I have managed to spare the time to write a blog post is because my laptop has decided that it requires a hard drive scan to fix errors. I started it initially at 9am this morning and it’s now 15:15. There is only so much work you can do on the iPhone. But the good news is that I have managed to make a considerable dent in the number of non essential items on my to do list (this blog post being one of them) bad news is that I am running out of time for those important to dos.
Anyway I have bored you enough with my ramblings and I have spent too much of your precious time already so all I can say is thanks for taking an interest in reading this far down and have a good day, what’s left of it anyway.
The long gone but since returned for a while,
Matthew Shield
Oh and before I forget again, I have finished my portfolio I just have to theme this blog to suit (another item on the todo list)
ok ok I’m going now
Tags: back, BAIMP, bournemouth, break, chill, cinema 4d, errors, fix, game, interactive, iphone, media, off, production, project, time, unity 3d, University
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University is Finished!…. Well For the moment anyway
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Uni Life, University
One year down… two more to go…
Well this is the end of the year so far. I haven’t really had the time to update this blog over the past couple of weeks primarily because I have been working flat out to finish the BeSpikeWise website. The summer project has finished and I can now sleep! After many hours coding and many more hours searching for the bugs in the code I (with a bit of help) managed to code a pretty slick website (in my opinion.)
You can view the website over at http://www.bespikewise.com. So after all the time spent on the website, a day before it was to be shown on presentation day at uni, I uploaded it to the IMP server to be shown. Unfortunately the IMP server is set up differently to a conventional server and so all the links got borked!… A whole morning later and much frustration searching through code, I corrected all the links so they pointed to the correct place.
Other than that, the presentation went well, other than the channel 4 representative calling our website ‘seedy’… What does she know, the rest of the year though it was fantastic and the channel 4′s website isnt exactly a eye pleaser anyway!
So the summer project is finished, and the group are going to try and keep in contact. We have done very well as a group without any major problems or fall outs. It was an absolute pleasure to work for them!
So thats me for the year… I am now in Hungary relaxing and sunning myself in 26 degree weather (and this is a cool day)
But it isnt to last… I will be working for the money for next year! So let me have my gloating moment.
So, bye bye for now… That is until I get the will power to update this blog during the holiday… But the chances of that are less than the chances of it snowing here within the next week.
Tags: bespikewise, borked, end, gone, holiday, Hungary, IMP, one, project, summer, upload, year
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