Professional Practices (2023)

I feel like I'm almost there, degree project is killing me but thankfully I have most of my stuff done for this course so I feel like I can focus more on my degree project. I saw my friends PowerPoint template and Dean's comment on it, making me feel the need to add some designs but then I remembered Dean's mention of my stuff being fine and not needing to add anything. So, I made sure not to touch any of the stuff I've already gotten the approval of from Dean. Meanwhile, I did some editing on my music. I found out that the showreel should best be 40 - 45 seconds so I came to the realization that I had to edit my music accordingly. Thus I tried the Adobe software Audio Editor for the first time. I asked some friends on how to use it and proceeded to work on it. This is my first time editing music like this, I usually just cut and blend in Premiere Pro so I honestly felt a little overwhelmed with all the extra features. Nevertheless, I pushed through, picking out a secti...

I created the presentation slides and my excel sheet last week. Dean didn't mention any requirements for the presentation slides so I just went the simple route.  I also took a template for my excel sheet from the internet and just tweaked it to match my branding. I also created a mockup for the business card and letter since Dean mentioned that we would get extra points if we did so.

I showed Dean my previous showreel and besides the expected the response about the vibe and original logo, the rest was about the same. He suggested changing the intro obviously as well as the song and mentioned that the images should match the ones on the website.  So I decided to pick a song that was less repetitive compared to the previous one since Dean mentioned it could get boring. I like jazz so I went with that. The song was chosen after a lot of deliberation and advice from Dean, and while editing the showreel I actually felt that the combination of the song, my colour palette and my logo gave off a rather modern classic feel.  You know, a little minimalistic and like walking into an old and expensive but refurnished restaurant with jazz music playing in the background, meant to cater to the younger customers. So I tried to make my intro's transition match with this vibe.

Worked on my business card design. I followed the original design I had in my old business card but in my new colours. No issues occurred. Besides that I finished up my gratitude letter and cover letter😎 I also tried my hand at a artsy resume but still not sure how I feel about it.

New week and new things to do. I worked on my resume this time. Thankfully I had my previous resume so I just used that as my base and build it up from there. I took a lot of inspiration from other resume designs but still wanted it to look like it belonged to me. After a lot of trial and errors I finally got my CV360 to 98%. It took me sooo many tries too. They would mention that I didn't add enough of their suggested words then say I spelt them wrong when I was following their spelling. Then complain I didn't add my LinkedIn URL when I did just because I put it as a hyperlink. After that I worked on my Invoice and my letterheads. This was all pretty easy since I just had to follow my own branding.

I showed my previous website and got a rather disappointing response from Dean so I decided to try a more boring but professional website design. Now rather than showcasing my personality, my website sort of only focuses on my projects. I'm a little sad that I can't reuse my duck picture but what can you do. My original website had a lot of stuff to show since I wanted people to know that I could do a bunch of things but this time I focused more on stuff I wouldn't mind doing for work and am interested in learning more about. I went along with the minimalistic and simple design and tried my best to keep it relatively short and straightforward with short descriptions about my projects and a lot of pictures and videos.