linkedin After working at The Vincent Hotel Southport for almost 2 and a half years, it is now time to say goodbye...
It has been a journey, and working for the Vincent Hotel has built my confidence, social skills and team work. Straight away when I started the Vincent I went to Head Waitress Role- which the manager told me, it usually takes employees a much longer time.
My manager was sad to see me go, but understood that my media career is about to begin- I will always stay in contact with The Vincent and if they need my help in the near future and I can fit them in I will do so.
The Vincent also enabled me to serve high maintenance people, such as Wayne Rooney, Coleen Rooney, Jordan Henderson and many more celebrities. Therefore, I feel the experience at The Vincent will make me confident when interviewing high maintenance people for Seen Liverpool.
My dad mentioned that I should attend a BNI Business Meeting with him as it would help me understand business networking once I leave University.
It sounded like a great idea, I love networking, meeting new people and pitching its one of my confident skills. With getting A* at Drama in my school years I feel as though this has influenced my confidence when meeting new people, in relation to business.
Furthermore, we all sat around a table and all members of the team stood up individually explaining who they were, about their business/the business they worked for and a potential client they are interested in. As the meeting went on I learnt that it was all the team members role to try and get in contact with the "potential clients" and recommending them to people who need their service.
BNI- word of mouth marketing for one another, they hold team meetings regularly to see team members progress and make sure everyone is succeeding with the service.
Personally I thought it was a fantastic way of getting your business out there locally, and spreading the good work across. Although, it does narrow down to "what you put in, is what you get out" - therefore you must help others on the team to get work, because they are more than likely to get you work back.
It relies on recommendations and it is an international company!
The director of BNI asked me to stand up and express myself- I did to almost everyone on the team and they were pleased with my confidence. A media creative also passed me over his card when we all had breakfast- which meant I must have done well in my pitch for him to take interest in me.
It helped me understand business and how important networking really is! linkedin
Myself and Paul (Journalist for Seen Intern)
Yes I am still working closely with Seen Magazine (Internship)
My manager Rebecca- wanted me to film the Launch of the Red Door Liverpool and the Beauty Holistic Lounge Launch on the same night.
Furthermore Rebecca gave me a deadline of one week for the videos to be completed.
I had a fantastic time and met the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, whilst also interviewed her too!
Beauty Holistic Lounge Launch
With being the director, producer, cinematographer and editor of this video in the space of one week, I feel that I did quite well. Although, I feel I need to focus more on the sound as it can be quite irritating to listen to. Therefore, I will speak to a University Lecturer who will help me with this.
The Red Door Launch
With only a week to create two videos by myself it was quite a short space of time, but this made me realise that this is the type of industry I will be working within. Everybody nowadays wants news straight away- therefore this will be something I will have to get used to when working with any media industry.
The video did what my manager asked for, although the lighting inside was slightly dark, therefore next time I will need to consider lighting. The sound was not too great either, therefore I will have to use an external mic.
But this is what it is all about- learning. Undertaking the internship with Seen Magazine alongside my University course has done me big favours, because although I learn the skills and knowledge at University- this does not offer me the experience and learning from a business perspective.
Therefore, after I have completed my course I will be confident to work in the industry rather than still learning when I finish.
My manager was pleased with my effort- and has told me some more dates for my diary which I will be filming events.
Well I have had deadlines left, right and centre the last few weeks- finally time to breathe and also make a blog post about what I have been doing.
Production Project- completed!! It had been a journey, but we all came very far and it was worth the long hours and pressure. My main roles were the Producer and Director, although I was involved in the cinematography and the edit. Working alongside; Natalie Donnelly and Thomas Salzano.
In order to be able to watch the project you will need to download a QR Code scanner (free from your app store) - you will need a main screen, ideally computer desktop/laptop/tablet and your smart phone will be used for the second screen.
The overal aim of the documentary was to be creative and challenge stereotypical documentaries which are talking heads (can become quite boring to watch)- we began with the sound of the character telling her story and it was all about planning, being imaginative and researching ideas to illustrate the narrative.
The idea of using second screen was to keep viewers engaged because after doing research The Guardian Online stated.
"eDigitalResearch / IMRG (October 2012)
This was a survey of 2,000 people in the UK conducted in early July 2012. It found that 80% of smartphone owners, 81% of tablet owners and 73% of laptop owners use their devices in front of the TV." View the full article here:
Meanwhile, the main objective of using second screen was to show the audience images of Joy when she was younger. Second screen gives the documentary personal touches that joy would not want a shared audience (first screen) to watch. It also creates a relationship with the viewer, as though they feel a connection with Joy.
