Wiltshire College Work Experience – STUDENT FEEDBACK for participation in an EVENT

Student Student Name Your Name Here Campus Trowbridge

Information
Course and level 2/ TRF0297F0 Date of Event 21/11/2017 – 12/12/2017

Event description Please refer to the Employer led / sponsored event brief available from your tutor.

Title and Description of the Group Activity / Project:

Scenario

Operating as a separate company from Wiltshire College the Arc Theatre provides a number of
services for the local community as well as acting as part of the college’s facility. One of the
elements of the theatre is a functioning bar facility which operates during specific events, particularly
when the theatre is open to the public. The Arc Theatre is undergoing a re-branding exercise
developed in conjunction with the college marketing department. The Arc Bar is in need of it’s own re
branding to keep in line with that of the Theatre itself.

Overview

The purpose of this brief is to set a task that closely replicates the needs and working constraints for
graphic design production in the media industries. This is a chance for you to create something
relevant whilst demonstrating your skills and abilities.

The Brief

“The Arc Theatre branding is very out of date. It does not line up with how the theatre is progressing as
a venue for contemporary theatre and musical theatre. The marketing department have started work on
a new logo for the theatre but have not yet looked into the bar branding. The arc is currently called the
Arcadia Bar and has branding as attached. I would like to change the name to the Arc Bar so the new
logo etc would need to reflect this change.

The new theatre logo is lettering based and is very clean and bold. The bar branding must be very clear
and easy to read but can be a bit more quirky than the theatre logo. Ideally the bar logo would look
good in black and white but also have a colour version that could be used. The current colours around
the theatre are Purple and Teal, possibly the logo could use these colours although I am open to this
changing. Most importantly I would like the logo to be very current and reflect the changing and growing
arc theatre. It is also important that the logo works alongside Wiltshire college branding and does not
look out of place alongside the theatre or college logo”.

Tirion Cowell – Theatre Manager

What tasks and Describe your role and responsibilities – outline tasks you participated in.
activities were
I worked to complete the brief outlined above. My main role in the completion of this brief was to act as
you involved in? a 3D modeller for the client (Radiant Worlds). Within the role I was tasked with modelling an asset for a
game working from provided concept art. This is a new role for me as I have only ever worked from my
own concepts before, and so it proved challenging. It was also challenging in that I had to work to a
very tight list of specifications.

What skills did Skill Example

you use?
we didnt need to do much research as it was a logo for a theatre and bar however
Research we did have to get ideas for logos so we looked at pub logos and theatre logos
Give an example
of how you Maths
demonstrated this Use of Maths / - Scale – produce work to print resolution minimum 300 pixels per inch (ppi)
skill English / IT - Measurements – working in both metric (dimensions of the canvas A3 –
42cmx29cm approx.), and imperial pixels per inch
- Time management – budgeting time and working to a deadline
English
- Communication has been the key thing.
 - With my tutor acting as the middle man between me and the client I have
developed work following feedback, and ensured that I have met the criteria
on the brief.
- Interpreting the brief has been key, as well as reflecting on my own working
practices.

IT
- Industry standard software use – Adobe Photoshop
- Digital presentation
- Considering output for print
- Vector vs Bitmap

time management
Industry / creativity
Technical skills

Team Work /
Leadership

Creativity / we needed to use creativity because we have to design our own logo
Innovation
Other (Please
specify)

Employability Employability skill Evidence or example

Skills
Planning and
Development Preparation - How did
you prepare / plan for
These are skills this event?
which you may
have developed
Problem Solving –
while participating What did you do? What
at this event. was the result?

Time Management –
How did you manage
your time effectively?

Respect for Others –

Did you value and
respect: customers,
visitors, other students?

Customer Service –
Were you helpful?

How did you do? The parts of the event I most enjoyed:

I particularly enjoyed developing a product that might actually be used in a real world scenario. It acted
Use this space to as a good incentive to drive me to push myself. It felt more ‘real’ than other projects as a result of
reflect on your producing something that could be used by a company.
development, and
what you feel you The parts of the event I found least enjoyable:
need to improve
I least enjoyed working with the constraint of having to get the work to match up with Arc Theatres pre-
on existing graphics. This proved more difficult than if I was able to be really innovative and create
something from scratch, however I recognise this as an essential skill when working in industry.

Skills and knowledge I would like to improve:

I feel like my use of more advanced graphic techniques within Photoshop could be pushed further. I
would like to be able to create my own type set from scratch for example. I have pushed myself to try
out new things, but the time frame didn’t enable me to be as adventurous as I would have liked at
times.

Now update your  I have updated my CV

CV, and set any  I have set myself targets on Pro-Portal to improve skills and knowledge I have identified above
 I have completed 30 hours of work related activity by participating in this event
targets for
improvement on Signed Aodan Haynes Date 12/01/2018
Pro-Portal

Tutor checks  I have checked this form for completion and content
 I have checked this form for spelling and grammar

Signed Frazer McLeod

Date 12/01/2018