Thursday 13th February

Today there wasn't much work to do so I spent the day looking for things that I could post about on the Revolution Inc. blog. In the end I decided to write a post about placements, providing our readers with a guide to getting a placement based on the process that I went through before Christmas to get the placement that I am on now. To do this I looked on Creative Bloq and Pinterest and found useful articles about how to produce a great CV and portfolio. I used these sources to write the first part of the post, a list of points for each that the reader should consider while designing their self promotion, accompanied by a short explanation of how I went about designing my self promotion. For the second half of the post about the interview stage and the actual placement I wrote it from my perspective, talking about how to prepare for an interview, including typical questions that they may be asked, and what to do at work if and when they get the placement.
After researching topics to write about and finding material to back up my experience applying for placements, it wasn't until after lunch that I finished writing the post. I then added it to the website but only as a draft as I want Adam to read through it before it goes live. I don't think that it is ready to go live yet which is why I want a second opinion, as I think i've written the post in a very general manner and not chosen an angle to write from. I have written general tips and included what I did when I think really I should either write just about the tips and produce a general guide to applying for placements, or write about the entire process from my perspective and focus on my experience.
Adam was busy this afternoon and I didn't want to disturb him and ask him to read through my post, so I decided to make a banner to go with it for when it does go live. Creative Bloq used a banner on their article that was made up of a number of coloured squares with different illustrations inside that I thought was a great idea for this article. I searched online for a number of vectors that represent placements and found eight images including a pencil, two shaking hands, and portfolio that I thought would be perfect. From there I traced over them all in Illustrator and put each one in a box that then made up the banner. I then used retro colours including red, teal and mustard to colour in my illustration.
Today has probably been the slowest day since I have worked there as I didn't have anything to do. However Adam added more jobs to my list at the end of today so tomorrow I will have new projects to work on.