My Exit Strategy
Before Graduation:
- Online presence - updated website, logo, schedule time and set budget for the maintenance
- Show-reel - keep documenting my work and update my show-reel to be relevant to my area of practice.
- Focus on networking with scriptwriters, directors etc. and professionals that cover areas that I do not.
- Separation of Personal life and Work. Dealing with pressure of using social media for communication. I am working on being consistent with the communication across different media, at the moment it triggers anxiety in me, when I have a mix of University work and friends conversations in one place. For example - Facebook is my personal account only, if someone approaches me regarding work matter, I will redirect them to my WhatsApp or Email.
- Continue working on an assertive work pattern - keeping steady pace, no burn outs.
- Managing mental health and healthy relationships in personal and work life. Work on my messaging anxiety.
- Get in touch with potential spaces for providing workshops as a freelancer, such as the Aire Place Studio.
- Part-time/full-time job, any area is OK at this stage to support myself financially.
- Getting industry ready. Due to my recent decision (beginning of the academic year) of specialising in what comes most natural to me, stop-motion, I would like to take some extra time after graduation on building my expertise and portfolio. Then compose the portfolio to each of the Universities specifications for Postgraduate studies applications.
- Exhibitions, screenings, workshops, getting out there - think of the location.
- Stay with the Leeds Animation Workshop and gain more experience in sourcing funding and writing Project Proposals. I will need this for Postgraduate studies.
- Continue building network for British Sign Language animation projects.
- Apply for Masters at the University of Edinburgh, Sheffield Hallam University and continue research about Postgraduate studies at other Universities.
- Complete the rest of the modules and final assessment for Professional Diploma in Graphic Design with Shaw Academy.
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