Behind the Scenes of a School

Project PlacementAaron Kilby

Behind the Scenes of a School

Contents

4 Introduction

4 Knowledge and Understanding

6 Transferable Skills

7 Carear Tools

7 Cover Letter

8 Curriculum Vitae

10 Project

11 Section 1

20 Section 2

30 Social Networking

IntroductionMy work placement is at Kelsey Park Sports College. In this workplacement I am working within display and marketing departement where I helped to develop and advertise the Sports College to new students and parents. Helping to create a nicer environment for the school staff and students to work in.

Knowledge and Understanding

What i hope to have when i have completed the work placement is the understanding and knowledge about how ‘context is half of the work’ Within the environment there are many different contexts, ranging from different groups of people (or packs) to the difference in new and old buildings. The context of machinery is also present within a school environment, as is the context looking at time. I expect by the end of this artists placement to have a clear and thorough understanding about one context within a school environment and that once a context is assumed it creates most of the work itself. The underlying principles to APG’s notion are to have creative engagement between the artist and the host or organization. The idea being that artists could have a positive effect in an industry through their creativity and conventions. The concept of the artist placement is to have a minimum of a one month placement in which an artist will study within. The point of an artist placement is so that creative people can work within government and in businesses to gain experience and also have to opportunity to create projects not necessarily for the organizations in which they are working in or for.

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Practical Skills

Use Web application Twitter to blog and upload photographs, so that I am able to build a database and gain followers which will later help me when working within an artistic environment. Main aim of this is for me to learn by using the web, how I can extend my professional contacts within the working environment. The placement should extend my Adobe CS skills in InDesign and Photoshop, as well as improve my planning and presentation due to putting up displays.

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Transferable Skills

The transferable skills which I expect to gain with this work placement are to work within a team which allows me creative freedom, this being transferable to other jobs within the creative/artistic industry. Also to get creative work done on time as well communicating with other people to construct exactly what it is that the school is after. I also will have learnt how to create a creative Curriculum Vitae and a well written cover letter. Also that it is important to have different cover letters for different organizations to which I may apply, as is important to target the correct audience of the application. I have also learnt how to construct a personal electronic portfolio of my work which can be shown to businesses as well as a website were my work can be looked at and ways in which I can be contacted.

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19 Nursery CloseShirley,

Croydon,CR0 5EW

Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to you to enquire about a possible work placement. I am currently a Digital Photography student at London Southbank University in my second year. One of the modules is to gain a work placement and report back on my experience as well as doing a personal project within the working experience.

Some skills I have are, I am PC and Mac literate, am skilled in digital techniques and willing to work hard. I am also very willing to learn and can adapt to different working environments to what I am used to.

I would like to know if it is possible to get a work placement as feel that you are a fantastic opportunity to enhance and perfect my skills within photography and other forms of digital media as well as to work with different types of people and improve my presentation.

Please find my curriculum vitae attached.Thank you for your time and hope to hear from you soon.

Aaron Kilby

Cover Letter

Carear Tools7

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Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: 31st May 1988 Phone: Mobile: 07805202864 Home: 02086554506 Email: [email protected]

Website: aaron.clickgarden.net

Driving Licence: Full and Clean

Be able to enter a work placement within a creative field preferably in photography and editing. Where my creative and technical skills as well as knowledge can be extended, allowing me to progress into the new media sector.

2007 - 2010 London South Bank University BA (Hons) Digital Photography

Modules include:• Digital Image Fundamentals. (Photoshop, Studio set ups)• Media Orientations.• Sites and Practices.• Developing the digital image.• Image Analysis.• Photographic Index.• Cultural Industries (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro) • Photographic Rhetoric.• Real Lives.• Photographic Cultures. (Indesign)• Significant Others.• Photographic Art.• Contemporary Issues in Photography.• Interactive Photography. (Rapidweaver, Adobe Flash)• Cultural Memory.Technical skills:• Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator.• Developing and Processing.• Rapidweaver.• Word, Internet explorer, email, Microsoft Office. 2006 – 2007: Coulsdon College ‘A’ Levels Photography C Graphic Design D English Language D

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Education

2004 – 2006: Shirley High School 9 GCSE grade C and above including English, Mathematics and Science.

October 2007 – Present Kelsey Park Sports College, BeckenhamDisplay assistant. This job entails researching specified topics within a schoolhabitat, creating, designing and putting up displays. This includes taking photographs of students and events which need advertising and also working in reprographics and some input in marketing.

Sept 2006-Sept 2007 Southern Railway, Brighton Analyzing, testing and fixing problems within Southern trains.

Oct 2004 –Sept 2007 Sainsbury’s Ltd, Croydon Within this job I had two positions. The first as a customer service assistant, working on tills making their experience within the supermarket as pleasant as possible. The second as a customer service supervisor. Within this I was working directly with the customers helping with any problems that they had within the store as well as giving refunds and exchanges when necessary. The position also gave me more responsibility as dealt with final closing of the shop and working within the cash office to make sure everything was in order. Sainsbury’s also gave me the opportunity to work in the personnel office and improve my computer skills.

July 2003 Arc 3 Architects, West Wickham (Work experience)Role within this work experience was to do basic administration issues such as sorting the post, filing and doing anything, which was asked of me. In this experi-ence I had the opportunity to go out and survey a site, taking measurements, photographs and then drawing the plans up accurately.

• I am a keen footballer and sports enthusiast including staying healthy and going to the gym.• I enjoy working with my camera and taking photographs at every opportunity.

References will be supplied on request

Online Portfolio

aaron.clickgarden.net

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Work

Spare Time

Section 1

I. Grounds, Buildings and Equipment

1. Exterior of buildings looking at structure and Identity2. Grounds – Way in which the grounds are part of a school. Is it obvious or obscure?3. Interior of school – Differences between when students are at school and how desolate and eerie an empty school is. 4. Equipment – What equipment does to a room, how it changes how an area is perceived.

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Section 111

Reprographics Room f stop: 8.0Shutter Speed:1/80ISO: 800

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Admin Office f stop: 13.0Shutter Speed:1/30ISO: 800

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Dining Hallf stop: 8.0Shutter Speed:1/320ISO: 800

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Kitchenf stop: 3.6Shutter Speed:1/8ISO: 800

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Main Entrance/Receptionf stop: 8.0Shutter Speed:1/320ISO: 800

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16Dining Chairsf stop: 8.0Shutter Speed:1/400ISO: 800

17 Marketing and Displayf stop: 6.3Shutter Speed:1/1250ISO: 800

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18Stairwayf stop: 4.0Shutter Speed:1/125ISO: 800

19 Hallwayf stop: 8.0Shutter Speed:1/80ISO: 800

II. People

1. Types – Staff behind the scenes, ones people dont think about.

Section 2

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Staff Eatingf stop: 4.1Shutter Speed:1/15ISO: 800

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Estatesf stop: 4.2Shutter Speed:1/30ISO: 100

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Kitchen Stafff stop: 4.2Shutter Speed:1/30ISO: 100

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Admin Staff 1f stop: 4.2Shutter Speed:1/30ISO: 100

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Reprographics Stafff stop: 5.6Shutter Speed:1/80ISO: 320

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Cleanerf stop: 5.0Shutter Speed:1/40ISO: 100

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Kitchen Workf stop: 4.5Shutter Speed:1/80ISO: 100

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28Admin Workf stop: 4.6Shutter Speed:1/30ISO: 100

29 Estates Workingf stop: 5.3Shutter Speed:1/80ISO: 200

From this point will show all the twitter pages of all the social networking that I did to keep my followers informed on my progress of the work and what I was doing during the work placement.

Social Networking30

May 5th - May 6th

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April 15th - April 22nd

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April 8th - April 10th

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April 2nd - April 6th

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March 30th - April 1st

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March 25th - March 30th

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March 23rd - March 24th

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Large Thanks go to Kelsey Park Sports College:Admin Office

Reprographics DepartementFinanace OfficeGrounds StaffKitchen Staff

MarketingDisplay

Thankyou’s