January
It took a little time for me to get back into the rhythm of doing things after December break but once I did it was fine!
I’m basically social media manager at this point so I was mainly doing that. I got invited into some initial client calls to take some notes, it was interesting to learn what is spoken about in these early meetings. I also helped put together pitch decks for said clients. I was also able to practice replying to client emails with my supervisor and was then released into the wild lol! The first official client I responded to did not get back to me and it was eventually revealed after sending to follow up emails that they decided to go with another studio.
Our social media templates also got a bit of a revamp from our Creative Director Moog and he also was kind enough to explain the reasons why he made certain changes which was actually super insightful. Learning about what makes images look good from a technical standpoint was enlightening and eye opening.
This month I also started learning unreal, there was a super helpful course in the “cinematic training” slack channel that I’ve been following on and off and was able to produce a cute little still.
It’s very basic and honestly compared to something like blender I don’t think I like unreal very much lol, it’s not as intuitive and the learning curve is definitely higher in my opinion but I’m having fun with the process.
Towards the end of this month I also fully began working on the outreach video project with Creative Lead Katie Lowndes A.K.A Klo. We had our first meeting and I finished up my concepts while Klo aimed to see if we could get an official brief and a Project Manager for this project.
February
February and early March was definitely the busiest month I’ve had so far. The most important thing now was thew outreach video as we now had a deadline and needed to put together the video before the 8th of March as that was when we were going to be at the “hello future 2023” event at Brighton Met, which is a career event for college students to figure out their career options. Working with Klo was so fun honestly I learnt so much!
After refining the concepts a bit and getting notes here and there about budgets and possible constraints, we were able to pull together a deck and I gave my very first pitch. I was super nervous but they all really liked it and ended up wanting a kind of marriage between mine and Klo’s concept.
I was also asked to create some posters and concept art for this event. I was really excited to do the posters but grossly underestimated how long it would take, how many revisions I would have to do and how much creative control I would have to let go of. My original idea was a yearbook aesthetic with like doodles and stuff all over it which everyone seemed to really like. then we added a kind of 80s-90s spin on it to tie into a similar aesthetic we were going for in the outreach video. I’m not going to lie I got a little bit frustrated at times but I think it was a very valuable experience for me. I’ll link the posters in a separate post from this.
We also very quickly realised there was no way to put together the video in the timeframe they had given us, so we made a compromise and made a quicker rip-o-matic type video instead, with plans to make the longer form video in the future!
I started working on a practice edit of a trailer we had already delivered with some old footage provided to me by one of our Creative Directors and editors. This is the original one he did!
I also created a pretty cool video for social media using After Effects! Quite proud with how it turned out as I’m still learning my way around AE But I think I did a pretty good job 🙂
Potato quality due to website limitations.
We also did a live-action shoot to get some stock footage for a game! I also got to star in it!
I also put together some cute cards for a Valentine’s Day post on our social media. And went on a tour of the new London office that will house all the marketing studios owned by our parent company.
Those were some of my favourites.