CV's

What Is A C.V?

- Information about you, and your qualities as a worker.

- Summarising what you have done in the past, school, college, university, recent jobs.

- Information selling yourself, so a company can get in touch if they're impressed.

- A way of putting yourself out there as a client.

- A piece of information about yourself that a company can keep hold of, so they can read about you and have your contact details if they are interested.

What Should A CV Contain?

- Contact Details.

- Information about yourself.

- Recent jobs.

- Recent places attended; college, universities, placements.

- Enough information to sell yourself, as the person wanting the job.

What Is A Portfolio?

- A collection of someones work, to show industries or clients.

- Evidences of past work.

- College portfolio, University portfolio, Work portfolio, Portfolio for different stages of study.

- A well presented collection of work to help get jobs.

- Work you have put together through your time of study and work.

What Should A Portfolio Contain?

- Best pieces of work.

- Work that will impress industries.

- Showing you have skills, not a one trick pony.

- Work that shows you know what you're doing.

- Creative and clever work.

OUGD201 Self Evaluation - Design Production, Print

Was a good module to kick start the year, postcard brief was fine, apart from some personal issues back home, losing all the work I had done.

But as for "What Is Good" took me so long to come up with an actual idea I wanted to focus on,

my What Is Good was Scrabble, but it was were I went from there that I struggled most with. That taking a while to sort out, I could only get research about Scrabble, not about were I was taking it from there.

So my research side of things could have been alot stronger.

With all my design sheets for this module, I feel I had alot of ideas down on paper, and not just focusing on one,

messing about bits and bobs of each idea, trying to get the most out of each one.

I ain't the greatest at crafting and making objects, I feel my strong point is programme work, resolutions etc. So I try and focus on my resolution on screen,

Although I did have to make items for the "What Is Good" wasn't happy with them,

To be honest I wasn't happy with the resolution for that brief at all.

But at least the photographs make them look a tad better.

As for the Summer Brief & 16 Page Booklet Brief i was happy with them,

was happy how they looked on screen and when i got the printed out.

My biggest problem was funding to print,

module deadline, and I was skint, and had no printing credit either,

so my resolution boards had to be printed off on A4, which was a massive pain and unprofessional, but that will be sorted out for the next module,

cause I wasn't pleased with myself or how it looked.

5 things I would change:

- Time Management - In famous Time Management, I done alot better than I have done recently in the past, but next time I would like to give myself a good few days to have everything sorted, and printed how I want it.

- Research - For this module I feel that my research was weak, I had some good bits, but I could have expanded on them.

- Resolution - This is mainly about the "What is Good" brief, I wasn't happy with the outcome, the photographs were fine, but the actual piece was disappointing, I want to design work that am happy about.

- 16 Page Booklet - I did leave this rather late, mind was to focused on the other brief, I was happy with my outcome, but feel the design sheets and research could have been alot stronger.

- Final Ideas - Get them quicker! I seem to get my final idea very late into the brief, then I have less time to get the layout, research and resolution all done.

Group Tutorial Prep

What is professional/industrial experience?

- Work placement in a design industry.

- Finding out the in's and out's, the do and the don't.

- Not panicing if things are not going as planned, dealing with the heat and pressure.

- Designing for a client or industry who expect a resolution.

Why is professional/industrial experience important as part of PPD?

- Using the knowledge you have gained on the course, putting it into context.

- Put more thought into the industry and your own future,

would you manage? should you be there? prepared? ready?

- My positives and negatives, does this help your development?

- Motivation, something to aim for, a goal, how to go about it.

- Find out what it is that industries and public want, beat the competition.

How do you gain professional/industrial experience and what form does it take?

- Contacts, Employers, Agencies, Friends?

A friend who works or worked for a business maybe?

- Visiting Agencies, show interest, even if it is just a few hours of looking around the studios and flicking through their work, where they work and what the atmosphere is like etc.

- My own work, send it to agencies or employees, just ask their opinion, never know what could happen, no harm in trying.

- Look for as many agencies possible, ring or e-mail, you could try 20 and 3 get back but at least that is something.

- Just kick start your experience, no matter small or well known the company is.

What should you aim to gain from professional/industrial experience?

- Contacts, as many as you can, big or small.

- Where I want to be, what side of the industry?

- Greater passion for Graphic Design.

- Knowing about the industry, expand knowledge you know.

- Understand the time and effort needed to go into the work you provide for companies.