Evaluation

My mock interview went really well, I planned a question and answer that suited the STAR way of answering questions we were taught but when I went to filming I realized I shouldn't be reading it out and I should just free style it so get more practice with this order and this way of answering questions. I started off really well going through all of the points and making sure to cover them all.I think I was mostly like this when I had my interview for my current job, I did ask what made me stand out from the other people who were interviewed and why I got the job and my manager said it was because I was so confident so I haven't learnt from all of this that in future I will go in to interviews with confidence and using the star approach, this has really helped me for my future and was a vital skill to learn.


The training drama was a very helpful task, it was really good to look in to ourselves what key things you need to learn to prepare for interviews and them having to write a script with them included really made them stick. I think the planning half of this project went really well we needed to look up how to do an interview with skill then plan how to each it to others while planning a shoot. The production parts of the project went really well amd really showed us that even if we don't like what we are doing we need to do it and we have to do it to a good standard. This is a hard thing to learn as most would just refuse to do something they don't want to do so we need to learn that no matter on our opinion of work everyone has to do it. I have learnt from this what I need to do to prepare for an interview and what to do in an interview and these skills will help me countless times in my life.

My formal letter was very interesting to make as most people won't do letters anymore and learn how to format them because they use emails but these skills can transfer to email. It was helpful to see other letters and how they work and once I have a subject to write my letter on I saw how to structure it then wrote it.This was really helpful as people write letters a lot and it could really help lots in my life to know how to format and lay out letters. In the future I will now know how to lay out emails and letter both of which are very necessary skills.

My telephone call went really well as I have a lot of experience from work. learning the 5 main things to do on the phone really helped as I do get very confused on what to do on the phone. I liked doing this and learning this as I do have to use the phone a lot and its a very good skill to learn and will help me almost weekly for the rest of my life. In the future I know now what. to ask and how to act when on the phone and it will make me more confident.

When re creating my cv I just re visited my cv and asked people what they thought I should improve upon then I improved those sections and put them in a new format with my grades and other things added. I had a CV but it is always good to keep changing them and keep them updated.In the future I am going to update and re read my CV every 3 months to make sure it is good and not the reason I'm not getting a job.

My Online Bio was hard to do at first, I am not very good at writing about myself, it took awhile to figure out what to say so i made a list of my strengths and things to write about. I think its good to do this and write about yourself so you can see the positives and really think about the big picture and what i want to do and be. In future i am going to try to keep my online bio up to date by checking it, changing it and re doing it every couple months.


show reel

Making my show reel was really good as i  had to go though everything i have made before and pick out my favorite or best bits. I started this by listing all of the projects i have done them i went through them and picked out the good ones as i have done a lot of different things throughout the years i have been doing media but some of it did't turn out so good so i didn't include it. next i started to edit it all together this is when i thought about the idea to have it showing my skills growing starting from my first videos and getting better moving through my different projects and products. I thought this would show my progression and skills well and i think it did. I have also made a lot of graphics for each of my products so i thought it clever to include them in front of the clips that are playing of the same projects, i did this because i remembered foxy told us to make it so the audience is always being led to look at all different parts of the screen to keep them interested and i really liked this idea. i wasn't sure how good my show reel looked after i made it although i am very proud of it but i decided it was best to get some qualitative and quantitative feedback so i asked people questions and ended up getting a really good response with only small things to change. I feel like making my show reel was really good and will have a big impact in my life and chances of a media job, This was a very effective and helpful thing to do and i am very happy we did them. For the future i am going to keep updating, editing and adding to my show reel to make it as good as it can be.

Comparison

All of these skills were great to learn, all of them will help me in different ways. The skills i have learnt in this unit are so easy and obvious skills but things people just don't do properly or in the best way so learning about it all and really concentrating about each of these have boosted my confidence in so many ways.
I think learning the phone call and the training drama were the best and most useful parts of this project for me. The phone skills were really good to learn and i think i am going to use these skills a lot through my life and in the past i have been so bad as being on the phone so i don't have any confidence in it but learning these skills and step by step what to say on the phone and how to act has made me a lot more confident and happier. I definitely think learning this was the most helpful for me right now.
Doing the training drama was really helpful as we had to do our own research on whats the best things to remember for an interview and making something instructing people how to interview really made it stick in my head about the best ways to do great in a interview. making and editing something about it made me listen to it and really think of it in a way i wouldn't if we were just told about it. Knowing how to do great in an interview is a really good skill to learn and perfect as iv'e already had lots of interviews and i'm not even 20 so i will have probably hundreds more in my life. I am very happy to have made this drama and the lesson we learnt off it that sometimes you have to create a project that you didn't make and you don't like. I learnt a lot in this unit and i am very happy i did it and it will really help me in my life.
The cv section was really good to do to see how to layout my cv and revisit it but really i didn't change much and i don't think it was the most helpful section, if i were to compare this to the formal letter i can see a lot of positives for doing both.
Some positives for doing these are that they are both skills that i will need to know and they can be transferable skills. revisiting my CV and how to make formal letters was helpful and i will need to use these skills a lot in my life and future especially since a formal letter is basically the same as an email and i have to send loads of them in my life.
Although i didn't change my Cv much i mostly just changed the format and added my job now to it and i learnt how to write formal letters for 6 years in English at school so i already knew how to write and make these so although it was a good skill to go over i can't say i learnt anything i didn't already know on this.
Although all of this i still enjoyed the tasks and i do think it was helpful to make these and revisit them to refresh what i knew.

Conclusion

In concoction I think this unit was really helpful, it was good to focus on and learn the skills i did. Although i didn't think some of the skills were the most helpful to learn i think it was really good to focus on them for a minuet and revisit them. This was a really good helpful unit, its very unlike other units as instead of teaching us how to do media its teaching us about life after to college and preparing us for the real world. We have spent so many years in education and i'm about to leave so its great to learn some life skills that can transfer in to so many things. This is my 16th year in education not including any preschool and i think this unit helped me learn and focus on more life skills than i have before so i have really enjoyed it and i.m very happy to learn all of this. Now i know a lot more i can be more confident and happy. I will now be more confident in interviews and i know the key things to remember to be great and come across confident and like a really good employee. I Have now learnt a lot more transferable skills that i will use for many years so i think this unit was a complete success.