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4.Creative Futures Week

Tuesday 27th February 2018

Artist and Designer Glyn Dillon in conversation with Dan Berry

Glyn works on Star Wars. Currently episode 9 and was co. costume designer

Did comics as a teenager but began sculpture

Painted his local nightclub around age 22 with a Star Wars theme

Has done makeup

Did storyboards for about 15 years, mainly commercial

The Nao of Brown

Uses photobooth for comics

Character design for Jupiter Ascending

Kingsman character/costume design

Kylo Ren design with team

Rogue One and The Force Awakens

Draw lots, be ready to grab the opportunity and be in the right place at the right time

This talk was okay because although Glyn has such a phenomenal job and his costume designs were brilliant. I found it so difficult to enjoy the talk due to his conversation with Dan Berry being fairly flat and there was no engaging with the audience at all so it felt more like a show and tell rather than taking something from the talk.

Andrea Hilditch-It’s all about me, me, me. Finding the evidence needed for your CV’s and applications

Projecting your best self

Are you able to present yourself as proactive

What have you been involved in?

Evidence could come from

Projects/client briefs

Part time work/volunteering

Installing exhibitions/collabs

Group assignments/presentations well or not

Times when you have had to come up with solutions to problems

When have you groaned inwardly about a challenge but it was successful?

What’s been long and difficult to finish?

When have you mentored?

Topics you have researched

Check your module specifications/assignments

CAR Technique

C-Context (setting the scene/what were you doing)

A-Action (action that YOU took)

R-Result (a positive outcome)

Not about your team but about you!

Really have to think about what you do

“Whilst working as part of a team…”

“Throughout the project…”

“In addition…”

Keep away from the word ‘just’ as it belittles the work you have done. Be confident in what you have done!

Have consistent word size

You can put the amount of GCSE’s you have other than Maths, Science and English

Month and Year

Only organisation, no need for their address

Only need your current address

Name in bold, not ‘CV’

Don’t need your date of birth, only on an application form so they can’t discriminate

Think about words that show you’re individual, not caring, friendly etc.

Keep personal profile 2/3 sentences long and complete at the end (like an intro)

‘Breathing Space’ on CV. Don’t cram it

Don’t use jargon. Put in full then jargon in brackets

Make your CV quick and easy to read

Drop ‘I’

Make sure interests and additional skills are actually relevant

Craft activities can go in interests and activites

If you don’t do anything, then what are your professional areas of interests

Point and Evidence

Positive and proactive words

No ‘data dump’

Consistent layout and content

Is an artistic/creative CV needed?

I found this talk most useful and interesting due to the information being so relevant for everyone, having decent tips and advice given and for it being more informal than most talks allowing it to be more comfortable and relaxed. Andrea also got us to work in groups which kept us constantly discussing throughout the hour.

David Latham Cruse-What am I here for? (Design focus)

Started at Charles Owen

Project management is key

We had to make am aeroplane for questions

Freelancing is becoming more popular now

Paper traits

Terms and conditions, always

Get half of your payment paid before you start the job and other half on delivery

Get a Linkedin profile

I did not like this talk because although I knew it was design focused, I thought I still would have been able to take some information out of it but I did not find anything about the talk useful. We were given paper aeroplanes to make at the start of the talk and I spent the majority of the talk trying to figure out how to make that as I could not concentrate as his presentation skills weren’t great.

Heather and Ellie-Local opportunities at Tŷ Pawb

Network for the university and local artists

Cultural community resource

Art gallery and education with a market

A useful space that you can go to as your normal shopping routine

3 strands

Public engagement

Retail

Exhibitions

Over 3m funding

Applying to volunteer included and application form and interview

Good to build employability skills

Front of house area like a reception that covers the art and market information

Retail assistant includes stock-taking, handling cash, sales and customer sales, developing knowledge of local, regional and national makers

Workshop prep and tidy up

Helping children to use scissors, pencil sharpeners etc.

Documenting the workshop

Ideal if you’re considering a career in arts education

The Wrexham Open (Exhibition)

Prizes on offer

Makers Mentoring

They mentored Rhi Moxon

DBS-Get when volunteering. Can renew online due to having one

23 market stalls

Industrial/earthy feel

This talk was not as good as I had hoped. The talk was supposed to be given by Jo Marsh but instead was given by Heather and Ellie, two workers that work at Tŷ Pawb. I found that the two clashed far too much to present a talk together. They talked over one another throughout the entire talk making it very difficult to listen to. I have also written two different numbers for the amount of market stalls there will be. Jo Marsh’s talk on Monday said there would be 18 and Heather and Ellie said 23 so I am unsure as to whose mistake this was but it was hard to keep up with two people talking at once.