Design for Good

Design for Good

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Designing for Good – 5 reasons to volunteer your skills by Oliver Ley, Design Enterprise Studio Member, March 2021Volunteering your skills is amazing! It can be the strongest building blocks for personal growth. This is how volunteering kick-started my Digital Media creative career!I’m rapidly coming closer to collecting my degree, ‘real life’ becomes full time and I’ve been reflecting a lot on what’s most important to me (as we all have in this pandemic). For me I’ve been doing some soul searching in terms of where my next steps are going to take my life. I needed to understand what makes me tick? What wakes me up in the morning? What has got me to where I am today? I’ve recognised that volunteering has become an integral part of my life affecting nearly all parts of my life from professional to personal.Everyone’s different, so this isn’t a life hack that works for all! It’s simply me sharing my personal experience, parts...
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Working in PR

Working in PR

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Interview with a PR Professional by Thomas Checkley, Design Enterprise Studio Member, March 2021 Hello, my name is Tom Checkley and I am currently in the Design Enterprise Studio at UWE. For my blog entry I have interviewed Victoria Archer, a professional in marketing and PR. Before we start, I’d like to share something that I found really interesting, Victoria currently lives in Florida, USA but still works for a Brighton-based agency. This change of work style is something that’s becoming more prominent in the digital industry, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. What is your name and job title? "Hi, I’m Victoria Archer and I am an accounts director at Cobb PR. We are a PR agency based on the south coast in Eastbourne and work in partnership with our sister agency, Cobb Digital which predominantly focuses on digital marketing. My role sits in the middle of both to help integrate all our marketing campaigns." What does the company do as a whole? "I think from...
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Working in Media

Working in Media

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Interview with a Media Professional by Victoria Harrison, Design Enterprise Studio Member, March 2021Firstly I would like to thank Molly Smith for taking the time to answer a few questions about her life, I hope these questions give students a good perspective towards life and challenges faced by media professionals today.So to start, please could you  introduce yourself and give a brief synopsis of your current career and any other media involvement?"I'm Molly. I've been in the media industry from 19 years old with a three year media production degree gap at 21years. I worked in corporate and private media industries until 2014 when I got a job with the BBC News. Triumphing various roles within the BBC from NTA, Series Producer, Floor Manager, to my current role: camera operator and video editor.Before the pandemic I was also involved in starting a live streaming company for club nights (https://www.sixseventymedia.com) – which has now been pulled back to studio streaming only as...
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Skills in Digital Media

Skills in Digital Media

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Five Skills for a Career in Digital Media by Csenge Sziklai, Design Enterprise Studio Member, Nov 2020 Before I started my academic journey studying Digital Media at UWE Bristol I would honestly say that my skills in digital media were pretty much non-existent (I didn’t even know Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V was a shortcut to copy and paste!) but now I find myself in my final year, soon to graduate, feeling prepared with the skills and knowledge to enter the professional world of digital media and apply all the things I have learned in my three years of study. When I was putting together my application to go to university, I was thinking about what I wanted to get out of it. Of course I wanted to come to university to grow personally and make new friends but I also wanted to study to learn the skills that companies in the “real world” required. In this blog I will share my top 5 skills for...
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