On 6 February me and my friend Laura McNaughton visited Professor Mike Press and had an interesting conversation about the Design and Market Module. After few lectures quite a lot of animation students realised that maybe the module is not really targeted towards them. We had few concerns that we discuued with Mike Press. He suggested few things:
After talking to Professor Mike Press I had idea about interviewing a freelancer and looking at VFX industry in a bit broader context than just one company. I asked Pat Imrie, a 3D artist and guest lecturer at DJCAD if he could be our interviewee. He said yes and the interwiev was set up for 10th February.
Here is Pat's website: http://www.patimrie.com/
- Assessment 2 think of it more like a strategy instead of business plan, plan for next 12 moths after graduation, what is the strategy to set up the brand, come up with an idea for ourselves, what is the identity, strengths, how to present yourself, promoting your personal brand
- finding founding for films
- things to think of:
- how to collaborate and sustain working relationships
- overcoming difficulties with remote location/where you are based
- how to develop flexible model of work
- how to find people that you can relay on
- how do you network in industry
- understand pattern of employment, freelance/collectives
- how companies employ
- what skills/knowledge they expect from graduates
- use of business language e.g. niche, segment, market
- how do you develop relationship with the client
- tips for the interview
- letter to yourself : what advise would you give yourself , what advice would you wish to be given
- avoid the pitch , be familiar with their work
- what skills/knowledge they exept from graduates
- did your patter of employment change
- how did you develop your pratice
- trends in industry: skills, employment
- aproach for trainning , how do you respond to new technologies, do you train
- use of animation in diffrent areas e.g. distant learning, web design
- it is not about one model it is about what fits to you
After talking to Professor Mike Press I had idea about interviewing a freelancer and looking at VFX industry in a bit broader context than just one company. I asked Pat Imrie, a 3D artist and guest lecturer at DJCAD if he could be our interviewee. He said yes and the interwiev was set up for 10th February.
Here is Pat's website: http://www.patimrie.com/
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