Placement Project Report

James Ide: Underdogplacement report

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Contents4 Introduction6 James Ide Creative Curriculum Vitae 8 cover letter10 online portfolio18 section I22 section II34 III- Use of social media

Introduction

The idea of the placement and the “context is half the work” is to take an artist out of there usual environ-ment and place them somwhere they would not usualy work. this then gives the artest a inside look into the organisation and benifits them with a new perspective. for the majority of my placement i was just talking to clients and moving work as well as manning the galery. towards the end of the placemnt i decided to document a poster art show and music perfor-mance at the gallery and combine the placemnt work with my photography.

My placement was at Underdog Art Company galley in old kent road in south London. Underdog Art Company is an online gallery working with established, up and coming artists and photog-raphers. It sells and produce’s original and limited edition reproduction art. The gallery was not on our list of possible placements, However I found the gallery and spoke to the owner in person. I explaned I am a photography student and freelance artist and that I was looking for an internship or placement. The owner asked to see my portfolio and I showed him using the website flicker and my own website. He then offered me a position and explaned my dutys. My Jobs in the gallery were varied. Sometimes I looked after the space while the owner picked up sup-plys. I also helped hang the work and take down. I also helped with photo editing and maintaining the website and making a twitter website and myspace for the gallery.

My project was to document a poster art show, In addition to the displaying of poster art there was also musical performances from a number of bands.

I gained a large number of transferable skills from hanging work as well as the day to day running of a gallery, talking to clients and artists. In addition I learnt more about photoediting and website building.

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James Ide Creative Curriculum Vitae Date of Birth: 28/11/1985 Nationality: British

Telephone Number: 02086917489 Mobile Number: +44 (0)7789252564

Email Address: [email protected]

Websites: http://www.jameside.clickgarden.net/index.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymography http://randomhero1066.deviantart.com/ What I want to achiveTo work for various agencies and clients, as a full time freelance editorial photographer.

Photographic Work: Photographic assistant to Lucinda Wells (lecturer at De Montfort University) Published in An magazine Nov 2006Published images for artist Mark AnsteeDe la Warr Pavilion Bexhill, East SussexPhotographer for signings and events at Orbital Comics LondonPhotographer/reviewer for online magazine the 405 (http://thefourohfive.com/)

Technical Skills: Adobe Flash, Rapid Weaver, Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Light room, Canon Digital Photo professional Microsoft Office

Education

2007 – Present BA Digital Photography London South Bank University

2006 – 2007 Foundation Art Hastings College

2003 – 2006 A Level Photography Arts Bexhill College

A Level-Photography BA Level-Performing Arts E

GCSE-History DGCSE-English Language CEnglish Speaking and Listening A

Others:Foundation diploma Art and design PassNCFE Music and Performance Pass

At work

Jan 2009 Jessops, Canary Wharf-Present: The store I am currently working at as a sales assistant and lab assistant.

Nov 2008 Jacobs film and video-Jan 2009: I also briefly worked for the photographic retailer Jacobs. Sep 2007 Jessops, New Oxford Street-Dec 2007: Part time Sales Assistant at the flagship photographic store. I worked on the pro/SLR de-partment

Nov 2006 Jessops, Hastings-Sept 2007: The first photographic store I worked at as a sales assistant and lab assistant.

What do I do in my spare time?

I am a keen cyclist and often practise performing tricks.

I photograph various local bands and events.

I enjoy attending rock concerts and also play the guitar in my own band.

Referees

Richard Streeter Daniel RubenstienJessops Hastings Manager Course Director: Digital PhotographyPriory Meadow Shopping Centre Caxton House Hastings Borough RoadEast Sussex LondonTN34 1PH SE1 0AA

Tel: 01424 429 789 Tel: (0)20 7815 5812

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cover letter

For my placement at Underdog art company i did not require a cover letter as i spoke to the owner directly to confirm my placement. Howere i will include a example of a cover letter i used when applly-ing for a different placement. I will also incude in this section some of the comunications via email i had with my placemnt provider.

Hello Dougald my name is James Ide and I’m one of the second year photography students you came and spoke to just over a week ago. I was very interested in the school of everything as I myself want to become a photog-raphy teacher. I would love to join your creative team and document the staff and students of school of everything. The first thing I would suggest would be to put some more images on your homepage (not too many as I like the simple layout but the odd bit of portrait and or abstract photography could brighten it up slightly. Secondly I thought the same thing about interviewing students and teachers as well as shooting some videos to promote the diversity and ideas of school of everything. also I would love to interview your staff and talk to them about their ideas for school of everything while throwing in some complimentary face shots for the page. In addition I thought that maybe if it is within budget to create an event to promote school of everything with teachers coming down and maybe have a stall or area to talk about what they do. Like a convention or fair but of course that would require a small team of photographers willing to document the event. Also you could have my skills on standby for any other corporate events. And finally just some editorial style shots ranging in photographic genre to promote the site as I am quite capable with photo manipulation. I hope some of those idea interest you or are useful I hope to hear from you and my contact details are bellow.

[email protected]

examples of my previous work can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymography/

placment and jazzTuesday, 17 March, 2009 6:19 PMFrom: “James Ide” <[email protected]>Add sender to ContactsTo: [email protected] sam was cool talking to you today and as I said Im really interested in helping out any way I can. if you let me know about the posters and flyers il drop some in my uni plus a few of my mates uni’s and mention you as a contact to my tutor. if you can give me the model of your epson printer il look up what cartrages/drums I can get for it. any other bits or bobs you need to know jsut email or text and il let ya know.

Jym

the majority of my stuff is up here for your viewing pleasure http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymography/

also have a facebook and twitter and myspace if you use any of that junk

heres when im at uni Mon Free till mind april then that may changeTues 10am - 1pmWeds 10am - 1pmThurs WORKFri 1am - 5pm Sat WORKSun Nowt for the monent I can pretty much do a one or two days a week depending on what uni have me doing. but I can do after hours after uni and cover the odd evening event just depends whats going on. also I can stay till fairly late on the odd day because I live near by. just depends when you need me

Re: placment and jazzFriday, 20 March, 2009 3:43 PMFrom: “[email protected]” <[email protected]>Add sender to ContactsTo: “James Ide” <[email protected]>Really good interesting work James. Like it a lot. See you soon. You still coming in today?

hey sam got some bits here for yaFirstly heres a few pics of the gallery I took on friday. Resized and edited for the web. Il take some better ones soon but feel free to use these in the meantime. also looked into your cartridge and I can get a cyan for £46, dont know if thats any intrest to you. also for some bloody reason that seems to be the only one I can order but il see if I can get the others. here is those gig photos I mentioned http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ryco-Saints/31546612066?sid=f8c56ac4b740151815b5f8faf091232c&ref=s#/album.php?aid=97020&id=31546612066&ref=mf right see ya monday

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online portfolio

The following is a collection of screen shots of some of the portfolios I use. The first is the home page from my own website at http://www.jameside.clickgarden.net/index.htmlNext is my flickr photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymographythen my deviant art gallery http://randomhero1066.deviantart.com and then my carbonmade site http://jym.carbonmade.com/

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These are some pictures of the posters used to advertise the poster show. One of my jobs was to pick up these from the printers and distribute them in various colleges and universitys as well as sticking them in shops and around.

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section I

The first section are a set of pictures for the underdog website. they are simply de-signed to show the gallery space, where it is and what it looks like.

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section II The poster Show

These are pictures from the poster art show. It features the offical images of the bands performances taken by me. these images were then uplaoded to underdogs myspace site.

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III- Use of social media

I Used several forms of online social meda. Firstly I used facebook to comunicate ideas with the gallery owner and some of the bands. Seondly i used Twitter to keep paula up to date with what i was doing and as a note to myself. Also i set up a twitter account for the underdog gallery and posted updates about up and coming shows. I used several photosharing sites such as facebook, carbonmade and deviant art to host some of my pic-tures and to get feedback from other artists.

Twitter posts

#pha09 well this is nice isnt it?6:49 PM Feb 16th from web

#pha09 spoke to venture they want to speak to me and would like to drop a cv with them. also going with chris to artprojx either today/weds10:28 AM Mar 17th from web

#PHA09 found a gallery on the way home who really liked my work and want to hire me. also they want to make connectiosn with unis/artists.5:54 PM Mar 17th from web

#PHA09 going to meet sam of underdog gallery today and discuss my project and me helping out there12:22 PM Mar 18th from web

#PHA09 off to underdog again to take some gallery pics4:30 PM Mar 20th from web

#PHA09 took some shots for the underdog website, got some flyers and Im set to cover there next few events...awesome6:53 PM Mar 20th from web

#PHA09 sent some pics of the gallery to be uploaded to the website and is hopeing his work will be pop-ping up in there soon.12:01 AM Mar 22nd from web

#PHA09 had another meeting with underdog, im now the resident studio photographer7:56 PM Mar 23rd from web

#PHA09 Any webdesigners or models looking for work let me know?7:57 PM Mar 23rd from web

#PHA09 about to go photograph a band at the gallery and give my boss a few files he was after.6:33 PM Mar 24th from webhttp://twitpic.com/2eu6g - the gallery, woop woop6:43 PM Mar 24th from TwitPic

#PHA09 Im running the gallery for a few hours tomorrow, come see me and buy some art.9:50 PM Mar 26th from web

#PHA09 running the gallery writing learning outcomes and setting up the underdog twitter, damn it feels good to be a gangsta lol12:29 PM Mar 27th from web

#PHA09 at gallery planning the studio shots that my project will consist of. also need to confirm models,lights and profile page coming soon1:30 PM Mar 30th from web

#PHA09 first underdog studio shoot went very well despite a few hickups just editing the shots then will upload11:42 AM Apr 6th from web

#pha09 setting up stuff at the gallery fort the poster show11:24 AM Apr 29th from mobile web

#PHA09 off to help set up the gallery for the show tomorow. anyones welcome there will be bands, booze and art!9:58 AM May 1st from web

#pha09 has just discovered twitter on the mobile and isvthe new Richard johnson6:50 PM May 1st from Twitterrific

#pha09 going to upload some pics from the poster show.2:29 PM May 6th from Twitterrific

#PHA09 gotta upload all the gallery shots ive done.2:20 PM May 17th from web

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LINKS

Portfolios

http://randomhero1066.deviantart.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymography

http://jym.carbonmade.com/

http://www.jameside.clickgarden.net/index.html

Contact

http://www.underdogartco.com/

http://twitter.com/UNDERDOGARTCO

http://www.myspace.com/underdogartcompany

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=557955533&ref=profile

http://twitter.com/jymography

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