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Digital Futures:  BBC Children’s

It s the beginning of a new day, and this time the introduction is given by Mario Dubois, exec producer and CBBC commissioning. He began with talking about how his career developed into the digital and interactive world of content production. After his graduation, he moved a few times for his job, from Manchester, for a project no limits, to London for working in a live show, in tv series for BBC and freelance. Then later Manchester hosted him again when he got hired for animating the series of Doctor Who and for creating a sport football game for BBC sport. It is during these years that from tv producer he started to working digital and to work with the audience. His job was to make happening the ideas that his colleagues have had . He mentions how we are becoming more technologically advance, and how BBC Children’s are trying to aim toward a more digitally orientated demographic. He also talks about spreading businesses globally, and how CBBC operates outside of the UK in the global market as well. Overall the lecture made his point and had a few interesting objectives. It is engaging knowing  what are the working method and future plans of someone in the business.

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Brooke Shaden  Unique Visions: Turning your strangeness into a career.

Brooke Shaden, someone that despite a constant presence of criticism throughout her career, nothing stopped her from creating more. Her thinking is that art is connection with people that know art, although your art has to be connected with yourself first. The connection is the foundation of art. If it connects with yourself, it connects with someone else as well. You need to realise your impact when you want to communicate something. It is possible to impact the life of someone else with a piece of your own art. Create your own rules, allow yourself to make something, being confident about it and making someone else loving. This is the advice that  Brooke gave to the young audience , which had all their ears on her.  

‘Make your own rules Make your own path You will get noticed ‘

Saying that listening her words was inspiring it is not enough. She is someone that lots of people can relate to and learn a lesson for life. The last things that she said, before closing the video call, was to  ‘Make your job your love affair, because you don’t have to someone else other than yourself’.

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Andrea Hildtch It s all about me, me, me.

A lecture dedicated to finding the evidences needed for your CVS and application was a perfect  continuation of the morning.  A lecture that every degree student would like to have for getting ready before entering the world of work. Presented by Andrea Hilditch, she took us through all the different ways and methods into writing a hard hitting application. The question ‘ Which self are we projecting?’ Is the one that most counts. The evidence could come from -projects, client briefs, case studies for assignments -part time job , volunteering -installing exhibitions -team/group assignments Struggles Challenging situations, successful at the end Times when it has been difficult to finish Mentoring, teaching others

Moreover giving around some examples of CVs to look, she allowed us to spot what should and shouldn’t be written in an application form. The content, the layout/format, language, the formality of the writing. Everything counts on a CV for getting or not getting a job. As an advice, Andrea Hildtch told us to always demonstrate a pro-active self, including projects, clients and case studies.

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Glyn Dillon artist and designer in conversation with Dan Berry

Having the opportunity  to assist to the interview of Glyn Dillon, well known costume designer and illustrator is not something that can happen every day. Inspiring was listening to his story and he became who is today, concept artist of the new Star Wars trilogy characters. Drawing since he was little, he grew up in an artistic environment, wit his father artist and his brother comic designer. At the age of 12 he got his first job: drawing computer games in cassette. Lately during collage he did predominately some comics, until the age of 14 , when he rebelled against them. Glyn Dillon also worked as a make up artist, bringing his creations to life, and later as a storyboard artist. Starting with small films and commercial, later he switched to making them for films and tv series. What made him get noticed was The Nap of Brown, a fictional comic book realised in watercolours. From there the road went downhill, starting with being the costume designer for the movie Kingsmen, till being hired as concept artist for the Star Wars movie The force awaken. It is him the designer of the iconic helmet of Star Wars . As Glyn Dillon reveal, a costume is everything in a movie; it is impressive how much it can tell of the character who is wearing it about his history. The conclusion did not disappoint. Some  great suggestions to the young audience, about taking all the opportunities for any kind of job in the business , look for jobs and speak up for yourself in order to reach your dream job.

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Gwenno Angharad Arts and business and creative internship 

Art and business Cymru is known as the heart of creative Partnership . It is s a charity, independent and membership organisation operating in Wales since 1988. His income comes mostly from the private sector (83%) and only 17% comes from the public sector. The goal is to bring business and the arts together in partners as mutual partnership. How do they work and where ? Advice, training and development, business intelligence, networking and profile raising are the methods.  Three are the areas where they work on : marking, respond suability and stuff training and development. What is interesting , is the amazing opportunity that this organisation offers to 5 people par year: A placement in art fundraising organisation for a length of 10 months. Gwenno Angharad gave a delineate explanation  of ‘what means participating in a fundraising internship programme’ at Arts & Business CYMRU. How does it work ? suitable for arts graduates 10months period , full time placement Trainee fundraisers Mentoring support Training courses Networking Events planning

“Thinking outside the box” is what business and arts have in common. For application, register interest contactus@aandbcymru.org.uk

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Kate jackson - Newspaper journalism

Back to the next lecture after lunch break. Feature writer of the Sun, Kate Jackson gave an outline of her career and offered advices on getting into the industry . Very interesting and inspiring for the future journalism student that assist to the talk. After graduating at Cardiff University , she started working as reported in Wales. Her career started as feature writer for The Daily Star in 2004, until 2006 when she got hired from Dily Mirror for other two years. From there she got a remarkable upgrade to the magazine The Sun, as feature writer of international news. There were three main questions that she asked to the audience, adding some more information given from her experience. -‘Examples of type of features.’ Open letter, interview, investigation , debate, boxes, A-Z, list , line up , case studies. -‘How to find what to write articles about ?’ Social media, news, personal experience, email, press releases, advertisements, newspaper/magazine, online publication, people, exhibitions, radio/tv/films, theatre -‘How to get a job’ Job adverts, shifts, work experience, freelancing, contact.

kate.jackson@the_sun.co.uk

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A PAINTER’S LIFE

Fascinating listening to Shani Rhys James, a painter who painted scenes from her life, more in particular that of being a mother. She talked about her career path, where she started and where she is now, and went into detail about challenges she faced throughout the years of being a painter.  The use of baby cribs in her paintings as metaphors for struggles in life is the approach used in her painting. Inspiring. From her detailed description of her painting and her work , anyone could capture her passion and love  for what she does.  

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INTRODUCTION Professor Maria Hinfelaar Professor Alec Shepley Jo Marsh

And Creative Futures week begin.

It is going to be a week full of talks, conferences and workshops given by some amazing and inspiring people about their personal experience.The introduction was given by the Vice Cancellor, Professor Maris Hinfelaar which gave a warm welcome to all the students. The head of the creative arts, Professor Alec Shepley gave a session about ‘Owning and loving your Creative futures, and why it is so important’. The term creative industries was coined in 1944 for expressing a amass culture phenomenon and a range of activities like dance, theatre and arts. The target of Creative industries is growth and jobs.  The key supports principles are finance, training, finding, welsh language option, information and networking. 84000 people currently are working in the creative economy in Wales. This country hasn’t any commercial or technological disadvantage and small companies compete between each other.Particularly interesting and inspiring was the talk of the creative Director for TyPawb, Jo Marsh who gave an update about the art and cultural place Typawb. . Its opening is fixed on 2nd April 2018. It will bring together art and markets within the same footprints.

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Robert Ball - Doing the housework! Working from home by former Creative Director turned illustrator

This session presented by Robert Ball talked about his life path in the world of graphic design first and then from the age of 39 in illustration. At that age he started making posters for a blog as an hobby (he draw 50 detailed heads of disney characters), and from there it started to get work from it, receiving requests for video games and book covers, stickers, magazines. His last work is to design a poster for each death in Games of Thrones, with a very strict brief and time available. Robert Ball during his talk explained what mean working at home, the disadvantages and the positive aspects. ⊖no commute, no wage, no pay-rises, no pension, no teamwork, no appraisals, so social life ⊕ keep your own hours, responsible for your own training, time management, less responsibility, stand or fall by your own ideas, YOU ARE YOUR OWN BOSS 5 STEP PLAN for working at home : research - splurge (first sketches, put initial ideals on paper) - sleep - refine (come back to the ideas, pick the good ones and refine them) - show

I really enjoyed this lecture and I found him very inspiring. What I learned from him is that “it’s never to late to change career” and that “the climb never end. The career is a journey and doesn’t have an end” .

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Thom Gulseven- Channel 4, ALL4 and the future of on-demand

Thom Gulveven is the Commissioning Editor  of ALL4, a video on demand service from Channel Four Television Corporation. In this session Thom talked about how ALL4 is different from normal tv and what means being a commissioning, “being the best at choosing you like”. ALL4 has loads more content  (commissions and acquisitions) and is presented differently (curated themes and not genres). The difference between TV and ONLINE  is that tv serves audience, and online serves communities. In the middle of the session Thom has been joined by Tom jenkins and Laura Rankin who commission and edit commission and edit content on the All4 sub-platform, ‘Mashed’. Tom Jenkins after talking about his experience in the sector and his career, gave the students some very useful tips that I personally found very captivating. -learn and practise -learn from errors -make opportunities  (go after them) -don’t feel failure -network with people -make sure that you love what you do

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Simon Macro, Gwenno Angharad and Lorraine Hopkins - How an Artist/Designer can work successfully with a Business

Arts & Business Cymru’s North wales Partnerships Director Gwenno Angharad gave Nan informative introduction and Simon Macro and Lorraine Hopkins with their business gave an example of how artists can successfully work with a business. Simon Macro with Marcus Beck is the co-founder of Freshwest Design, a design showcase that embraces both experimental and functional design and is driven by their desire to realise ideas.

Describing their work, Marcus and Simon put it simply, “we aim to make objects of intrigue and fascination, objects to make you stop, smile and consider”.

I like that every single piece of their work is limited edition, different and original from anything else seen before. It’s fascinating how a material can be transformed and tell a story!

Lorraine Hopkins at the other end is the manager for marketing, pr and sales of Tesni Properties. She has a background in arts consultancy and sponsorship brokerage before joining Tesni Homes last year.  She was also Co-Director for a home improvements business and so is used to donning a hard hat and going out on site. Lorraine is responsible for all aspects of Tesni's design, publications, events, public relations and of course, selling homes.

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Barry Purves - What is art?

“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth” - Oscar Wilde Quoting this famous author, Barry Purves want to say that everyone has a story to tell. The role of a storyteller in fact is to find a device through which he can tell stories and externalise internal thoughts.

In the talk he made some reference to Shakespeare and his theatrical deals with metaphor/history, Mary Poppins and her umbrella, Hamlet and the skull, ballet and his language, editorial and photography. It’s very interesting knowing that they all have something in common: they USE SOME THING ARTIFICIAL FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH. I really enjoyed this lecture given by a fantastic animator, director and screenwriter of puppet animation television and cinema and theatre designer and director.  He allowed me to see classic stories and reality from an other point of view. Very inspiring.

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Alex Jones and Pete Griffith (BBC) - From Hacksaws to Hollywood

Alex Jones and Pete Griffith talked about their experience as designers at BBC and their studies background. Although after graduation they both didn’t intend to become designers, through life experience they ended up in design.

An useful and interesting advice that brought them where they are is “There is no path, keep going with your passion and stand out”

The session provides an insight into the Design Trainee Scheme at the BBC for improving a product. —> learn what’s thee problem and resolve it empathise - define - ideation - prototype - test

From this lecture I learned that with an open mind you can never know where life experiences can bring you and who you are going to be in years.

UX & ED Design Trainee Scheme bbc.in/1Li7kHQ

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The heart of creative industries - Arts & business cymru

Yvette Kemble James and Elizabeth Day hold a lecture about ‘what means participating in a fundraising internship programme’ at Arts & Business CYMRU. yvette Kemble James is  the Operations Manager and Bizzie Day, a Creative Intern who worked through the pilot programme 4 years ago and who now runs her own successful theatre company The Other Room.

Arts & Business CYMRU  is a charity, independent and membership organisation operating in Wales since 1988. His income comes mostly from the private sector (83%) and only 17% comes from the public sector. 

His goals is to BRINGING ARTS AND BUSINESS TOGETHER. The need is the sustainability of the arts.

How to work with the arts? advice/brokerage - training development - business intelligence - networking/profile raising - fundraising finance courses

The fundraising internship programme, possible for 6 graduates per year, consists of 10 months paid full time placement, training courses, networking, mentoring support and event planning.

“Thinking outside the box” is what business and arts have in common.

For application, register interest contactus@aandbcymru.org.uk

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Making things happen: building opportunities after graduation

Doug Fishbone talked about his own experience in the art world and discussed some strategies for creating and developing projects in a professional context.

In his presentation he mentioned a great  quote by John Baldessari about ‘What make you a professional artist’ :

-A professional artist is someone who will spend whatever they have torn order to make their work.-

Doug also talked about the basic cycle of an artist and about the people that an artist needs to interest (curators, gallerists, collects, art critics, art media and funders).

What I found more interesting and useful from this lecture have been the 5 strategies for a successful practise:

1. visually unique. 2. critically embraced. 3. creatively satisfying.                        4. can sustainably evolve. 5. commercially viable.

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Simon Amor.  How to get a creative job; stop procrastinating... and other useful tips!

Simon Amon, as graduate in 2014 in the graphic design and multimedia course and worker for the company Qubit, based in London, gave us a very interesting and inspiring lecture. 

He described the role of a designer as a solver of problems and he set some steps to follow for being successful:

Set a goal; choose the a company for which you want yo work; start receiving that goal and getting ready with a good portfolio focused in what you are interested in doing; spend TIME to achieve the goal and put 100% effort into it.

Gaining experience during university is very important. Simon Amon defined work experience at this time as an ‘investment in ourself’.

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Collaboration in the creative industries- introduction

The Creative Feature week started with an interesting introduction of how is going to be the rest of the week, full of workshops, talks and portfolio reviews. Four experienced professionals from different sectors of creative arts shared their experience and talked about their role in the sector.

Tamara Harvey (Theatr Clwyd) - Alfredo Cramerotti (Mostyn) - Gareth Jones (Welsh ICE) - Andy Cheetham (Cheetham Bell) 

In their own way, they described ‘the power of simple’ and  the importance of the thinking and initiative.