Hanbury

Hanbury was a really fun experience and it was great to hear from some professionals !!

Some things that were hot topics to consider when applying for jobs:
- People tended to prefer PDF portfolio, not posted things - if things are posted to make sure they are all one document so they aren't separated
- A big talking point was social media following and Illustrators having big followings being a big bonus - this is something I want to work on
- It is clear that the people in advertising found their staff through a mix of being found and finding. In order to increase my chances - I need to send off my portfolio as much as possible/ increase my social media presence as much as possible
- Those in advertising spoke about how they receive too much work that has no concept behind it - I need to make conceptual thinking at the center of my portfolio - sketches, visual metaphors, interesting campaigns and branding !!

Making the showreel:
- Doing this was actually really fun - I enjoyed enjoyed trying to coordinate everything, get everyones work and contact people on the course I hadn't spoken to before ! It was a fun little collaborative project.
- However, the slides never worked fully. This was really frustrating because we had put a lot of time into formatting the presentation and getting two pieces of work off 49 people! However, on reflection this was out of our control and there was nothing that we could have done to get around it. In the end, the presentation sort of worked but none of the animations did. I am glad that it ended up being my slide that suffered the most as I was the one that requested that people send moving images. This was because I put my plastic gun moving image up but because it didn't work it was just a random display of pieces of plastic (totally concept-less). Reflecting on this, the likelihood of something going wrong and the animations not working was quite high so I should have made the first frame the finished image. This is definitely something I will do in the future.