Work Experience Week

My year had the opportunity to go onto work experience for a full week from the 12th to the 16th of June, where we had all organized some sort of work experience for ourselves that had a connection with something we wanted to study in university or something we generally were interested in being after our university life. I chose to do my work experience with my father as I thought that he would be able to give me the perfect opportunities referring to things that I'm interested in. 

I went to Cornwall with him and I really got the feel for the place that he was working in, which helped me create all of my projects for him. He put in a very pressured and challenging environment to really make me see what the working world is like. I barely saw him throughout the week and worked more of all with his manager. I created films for his business which is a restaurant in cornwall, and did quite a lot of photography for him to put up and sell in his place, as that is one of the things he does; where students bring in work and can hang it up inside for sale. Doing these two tasks really helped me as I want to take journalism and photography in university, and the editing and actual photography part of the task helped me with my art skills as well. I used what I had learnt from my media AS film to help film and edit the movie. 

I also put in a lot of feedback and ideas towards a new clothing line that he is coming out with very soon, known as Altof&Lyall, which he named after his ancestors. I put in a lot design ideas and I was also taught how fashion designers and clothing companies design their clothes online and I learnt a lot about the softwares they use as well. I also learnt how my father creates his custom colors for his line which is great because it's one step adding to a person's creativity.

I was faced with lots of different and small to big tasks through out the week which have strengthened my skills in a lot of different areas. I now know that I definitely want to be studying journalism in university because I absolutely love writing, filming and photography and I think my work experience week has really helped me come to terms with my goals.