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RISE Self-Reflection

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Week 3 Analysis: RISE Peer Feedback

Nikia, you have amazing ambitions! It was great to hear about how you came up on your passion for writing and audio. Those are two things that I am personally not great at. Isn’t it strange how the little fun things we did in our youth seem to weave themselves into our adult ambitions?

From the looks of your slides you might have used Keynote to create the slideshow. You chose some great images to convey your narration, but visually the lower 1/3 of gray blue gradient  was pretty distracting. I’d suggest using the “Photo Essay” template for assignments like this. Feel free to take a gander at mine as that is the template I started with.

Instead of giving myself a bumper of sorts to put the text over, I melded the text into the image. Obviously this is more time consuming and takes some extra effort to make sure that the text is legible, but in the end you get a really clean looking presentation with maybe an extra hour or so of work.

The other thing I noticed is that your audio seems to be a little funky. Excluding your into narration the video goes to dead air until 1:40 seconds in. This leaves the viewer to put and view your images flash by with nothing to go off of. Once your BuzzFeed images comes up , your audio cuts back in.

Depending on the program you used to create the video there are a handful of ways to fix this. Personally I used Final Cut, as it is a program I’m most comfortable in. In Mose video editing programs you can zoom out to see an overview of every track (video and audio). My best guess is that your audio track got stuck at the end of the video somewhere.

As someone who has worked in freelancing and contracting work for a while now I want to suggest a few things that will hopefully give you a leg up on your competition. Don’t set your goal as working for BuzzFeed. You can do that now honestly. Over 50% of job applications don’t hire people that meet the “job requirements” so don’t be afraid to throw your resume into the mix. However, please save yourself the suffering and use websites like Glassdoor.com to read real employee reviews on what the work environment is like. For example, BuzzFeed has a 3.3 our of 5 star rating, which isn’t the best. But looking at the people who specifically had the title of “Writer” shows that they liked their job but didn’t think there was any opportunity to grow.

I wish you the best of luck and please reach out to me if you need any help with programs. I’d be more than happy to help you!

-Hanna

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WK2 Project: My Digital Story

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Week 2 Exploration: Storyboard

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Week 1 Project: My Full Sail Story

We all talk about how starting something is “never easy”.

But no one ever talks about how HARD it is.

Before I started the MCBS Program I was working myself ragged in a cyclical negative environment. I wasn’t happy even though I was working very hard.

I had always thought I wanted to become a manger and stay in the Help Desk and Customer Service roles, but I finally hit a point where I simply had no empathy left.

I still loved my job but the environment I was in was slowly killing me.

But then I realized that I could continue to make people happy but also work with my creative brain instead of my logical brain which would in-turn make me a happier person overall.

I’ve always been a casually creative person and the thought of being able to use that every day sounded amazing.

Because of that I found my way to the idea that working in media would be able to tick off all of the boxes I needed to be fulfilled in my job.

After months of searching and re-writing my resume, I began to get interviews.

Because of that I left my job working in a retail environment and found a new position that paid me better, worked into my schedule, and I didn’t have to mentally deal with people screaming at me all day.

I started learning new things and I had the time and energy for my own life.

Because of that I had the energy and drive to achieve things after work, such as a second job that directly relates to my media goals.

In turn, I was able to start passion projects.

Until finally I found myself in a spot where, when I looked back, I saw nothing but giant achievements.

Ever since I decided to pursue my passion, I am a much happier person.

I now have a great understanding of how to successfully get myself out of a rut with a positive outcome.

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WK1 Exploration: Start A Blog & Tell A Story

Before I started the MCBS Program I was working myself ragged in a cyclical negative environment. I wasn’t happy even though I was working very hard.

I had always thought I wanted to become a manger and stay in the Help Desk and Customer Service roles, but I finally hit a point where I simply had no empathy left.

But then I realized that I could continue to make people happy but also work with my creative brain instead of my logical brain which would in-turn make me a happier person overall. 

Because of that I found my way to the thought that working in media would be able to tick off all of the boxes I needed to be fulfilled in my job.

Because of that I left my job working in a retail environment and found a new position that paid me better, worked into my schedule, and I didn’t have to mentally deal with people screaming at me all day. 

Because of that I had the energy and drive to achieve things after work such a a second job that is directly related to my media goals.

Until finally I found myself in a spot where, when I looked back, I saw nothing but giant achievements instead of a depressing plateau.

And ever since I decided to pursue my passion for media, I’ve found that I am a much happier person working towards my new goals.