Week 11 - C.V.

This week we were asked to either create a C.V. if we did not have one or update our current one. I already had a C.V. but the only things I had to update were adding that I gained a full UK driving licence and my current education. Below is my updated C.V.

CV

Claire Bartlett

D.O.B 19/12/92

62 Miers Avenue

Hartlepool

TS24 9JE

07885633764 (01429) 281468

clairenettabartlett@gmail.com

Driving License – Full UK

PREVIOUS EDUCATION

I attended St Hild’s Church of England School 2004 – 2009

I attended HCFE and studied Travel and Tourism from 2009 – 2010

I attended CCAD and studied Art and Design and Graphic Design from 2010 – 2013

I am currently undertaking Illustration for Commercial Applications at CCAD 

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

I have had work experience at Tweddle Children’s Animal Farm in 2009 where I handled the animals and cleaned out their living areas.

In 2010 I worked in a club called Showroom, the job consisted of taking photographs of people on their night out, and this also included handling money and a camera.

In 2012 I worked as a shop assistant at Home Bargains which involved dealing with customers, handling money and cleaning the shop on a daily basis.

I currently volunteer as an artist at The Artrium Hartlepool. My duties include helping members develop their art skills and help them overcome mental health issues through art and design.

QUALIFICATIONS

English Language                   C                     2009

English Literature                    C                     2009

Travel and Tourism                 Merit                2009

Food Technology                    C                     2009

Religious Education                C                     2009

Art and Design                        D*                    2011

ICT E3                                     Pass                2011

Maths L2                                 Pass                2012   

Graphic Design                       D*D*D*            2013

PERSONAL QUALITIES

I am punctual, creative, hard working and committed with everything I do. I am very well presented and always ready to learn new skills from others. In my free time I enjoy reading and meeting up with friends.

Week 10 - Intellectual property rights - Copyright

How can you protect your work through copyright if it is an automatic right?
Your work can be protected through adding the copyright sign to it.

If you say your work is copyrighted it will not count unless you put that sign onto it, it does not matter how it is added to the piece of work you want to protect. It can be hand written on just as long as it is on.

How does copyright affect you?
Copyright effects you because it restricts you from copying or editing someone else's work that is protected by copyright.
https://students.shu.ac.uk/shuspacecontent/lc/copyright-does-affect-me

How can you make sure you don't infringe on someone else's copyright?
To make sure you do not infringe on someone else's copyright there are various steps that can be taken, never use anyone else's work as your own, this can also mean that you do not search the internet for drawings of a certain thing that you are struggling to draw in order to work from someone else's creations and steal their style.  

Week 9 - What can you do with your degree?

Graduates may have 2/3 jobs when they leave university to make sure they have a steady income in case they don't get any work for a long time, they have something to fall back on.

Transferrable skills we have gained

• Communication skills
• Using machines, technology
• Work to a brief
• Drawing skills
• Computer skills, photoshop, quarkxpress
• Creativity/Imagination
• Printing skills, printing press, digital printing
• People skills
• Collaborative working skills (working as a group)
• Time management to meet deadlines
• Punctuality
• How to be professional
• An eye for detail and design
• Self promotional skills
• Self motivation
• Wide interest in visual arts 
• Problem solving
• Visual culture
• Planning
• Organisation
• Trends

Career Opportunities - CCAD Website.

• Freelance illustrator or studio illustrator
• Book illustrator, including children’s books
• Fashion illustrator
• Greetings card illustrator/designer
• Illustration for magazines, editorials and advertising
• Illustration for products, eg. homeware, fashion accessories, stationery
• Working in publishing
• Printmaker
• Styling
• Project management and community arts
• Postgraduate study, eg. MA Illustration
• Postgraduate teaching qualifications
• Teaching and lecturing

I started researching post graduate courses 

• Communication design: Illustration MA
• PGCE- one year full time, two years part time. 
• School direct training programme 
• School centred initial teacher training (SCITT)
• Teach First
• MA Education following PGCE

After looking at these courses I decided to research teacher salaries as it would be helpful to try and become a teacher to make sure you have some regular income coming in. 

Teacher Salaries
Minimum of £21,804 (or £27,270 in inner London) The starting salary is higher compared to other graduate starting salaries. Leading practitioners can earn up to £64,677 in London and £57,520 outside London, Head teachers can earn between £42,803 and £113,303.

Week 8

We had a talk from Pat, The head of enterprise and employability at the university. He talked about goals, personal development, knowing yourself, knowing where you want to go and creating a path for yourself. He told us how blogging is important because you are documenting your journey as a creative. He talked about professionalism, time, image, intellectual property, product, character, passion, enthusiasm and charisma. He explained that we should have a good portfolio, hygiene, communication skills, dealing with customers, working as a team and showing respect. This talk was very useful.

Week 6/7 - Pitch

We were asked to pitch a product and try to sell it to a few people on the same table. We had electrical products to choose from on a list. I decided to choose an Iphone 5.

I made notes on what I was going to say, these included things like it has a thin, light design, loads of apps to choose from, ultra fast system, perfect for business or personal use, 4 inch retina display, thousands of apps for business, thousands for personal use, games etc... Powerful yet simple ios system. High security, strong encryption methods for protecting business critical information. Easy to use

We were also asked to make notes on things that other people said about their chosen product.
Imac Notes

• Industry Standard
• Expected to use it in this industry, colour collaborated  
• New Imac has a thinner and better screen
• Icloud
• Faster than a PC
• Software

Week 5 - The Consumer

The Consumer is the one who pays to consume the goods or services produced. The publisher is meant to know the consumer/market. Money only comes from the consumer.

Consumer Marktets
General, Children's, Journals, Educational, Professional, Medical, Newspapers, Magazines, Editorial.

Understand your consumer as well as your agency.

For a book to be completed and published there must be a writer, illustrator, agent, publisher and consumer. The writer gets the most money.

Task - Research consumer markets from your chosen field. Looking at target markets. How old are they? Where do they get their money? Are they working? Demographics.

Children's books. They must be colourful and attractive for the children but it's not them who buy the books. It is also not really the parents that buy the books. The main buyer of children's books are friends of the parents and family of the child, they are mostly bought by grandparents.

According to The Telegraph some of the best selling children's books include

• The Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter
• Narnia
• The very hungry caterpillar 
• The faraway tree
• Barbar
• Treasure Island
• The Railway Children
• Winnie The Pooh
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• The Gruffalo
• Peter and Wendy (Peter Pan)
• Watership Down
• Tracey Beaker
• The tiger who came to tea
• The tale of peter rabbit
• Where the wild things are

Maybe older children's books are more popular because the children are able to ask for them, if they are babies they can't ask because they can't speak

Maybe books that have been around for years are still coming up as popular because people buying the book remember the book from when they were younger and they want the child to share their own childhood experiences by reading the same books

I think The Lord of the Rings is named the most popular children's book because it appeals to both older children and adults so the market is widened by the adults buying the books for their selves and the adults that are not interested in it may buy it for their children.

Week 4 - Agencies

Agencies have a House Style or market specific.
Task - Research agencies that relate to a market that interests you. Research the structure of these agencies. Decide if they have a house style and document your reasons why.

Contracts, Commission, Legal Rights

• bigarchive.com
• Debut Art
• Advocate Art Agency
• Bright
• Column Arts Agency

Column Arts Agency

Artist Representation - Focus of nurturing careers of artists by giving them help with the most boring part of their lives - business. Find artists new projects and commissions in the advertising, publishing and design industries. Win projects for artists, mediator between client and artist, negotiate the artists contract, organise the brief, market and manage the project so it runs smoothly and they make sure the artist gets payed. They usually take 30% commission from the project price. 

Book Keeping

• Logging monthly invoices and receipts
• Send updates
• Calculating tax position 
• Filing tax return 
• Advice/guidance 

Cost

• £0-£25,000 = £30 per month with an £85 joining fee
• £25,000-£35,000 = £50 per month with £150 joining fee
• £35,000+ = Negotiable 

Promoting your art

Public Relations (PR) campaigns, create collectives and exciting events.

1. Create exposure
2. Build a number of followers
3. Bring you more work
4. Make you more money

Partners

• Art grab - Fine arts agency that builds links between artists and buyers through studio tours and exhibitions.

Debut Art

The artists provide the artwork, they cooperate with agents and provide rough drafts. The client may terminate the contract at any time. Promoting the world's finest leading visual communication artists. House style, A company's preferred manner of presentation and layout of written material.

Some Illustrators on Debut Art include - Cath Riley, Oliver Jeffers, Michael Streich, Webbo, Vince Pastiche, Walter Newton, Kim McGillivray, hitandrun and Christina K.

Boss

• Andrew Coningsby - UK
• Mimi Rich - New York
• Arnaud Mayet - France

Advocate Art Agency

Managing Director, CEO, Ed Burns.