Reflection on Bradford Creative Careers fair

On the 24th February at approximately 10:30 we arrived at Bradford University for the Bradford Creative Careers fair. We were faced with about 30 minutes of time to look around the Media stalls to look around at different careers and what they offer.

At about 11:00 we were sent into the hall to hear a lecture from a guy called Philip Charles who runs PiPeLine Productions - a rap and music production company for young people. [http://www.piplelineproductions.co.uk] The guy had a positive attitude about his work, and seemed really down to Earth with young people. He talked to us about getting into the music business and the enterprise behind it, as well as incorporating graffiti.

Amy Held then spoke about her job experiences, and how she did alot of voluntary work to build up her CV. She said how it was better to build up your CV before going full-time job hunting, as it will help you get the job, and help in the long run.

The other workshop we did was the 'Stop Motion competition' where we could win £25 for our troubles. Hell yeah! ^_^ we used play-doh and MicroSoft paint to our advantage, and compiled a stop motion animation based on 2 classic video games - Pong and Pacman. One problem we came across was the fact that the program we used to compile the stop motion animation took FOREVER to load. and crashed the laptop. MonkeyJam decided to make a 1.26mb file 3gb big and didn't work, and it was hard to find a suitable replacement, because Flash crashed. Finally, Windows Movie Maker became our Lord and Savior.

Overall, I think the fair was a success, although it would've been nice if it was a bit more organised.

Below is the final stop motion animation: