First day of work experience - Tara Cox

For our Diploma, 10 days of work experience have to be completed in order to pass, this is a total of 70 hours,. However, for me some of the work experience I did last year counts towards these 70 hours - this was the 2 days work experience i completed at channel 4 inspiration week. The 2 days totalled up to be 14 hours which means for the film festival work experience I would only have to do another 56 hours in total to get the full 70 hours.

On my first day at the picturehouse, I arrived at 10 am to start the work experience and stayed until 5 pm. When I first got to the picturehouse we were let in and shown over to Tim etc who were already busy making langyards for the 'film festival delegates'. My first job was to help put together around 40 V.I.P guest bags, along with others in a group of 4. Each bag contained some bath essences, chocolate, leaflets and a sound and sight magazine, some guests also got a copy of 'Raw' magazine also.

My second job was to hand out Festival daily magazines to shops around town in order to promote and advertise the festival. Me, Matt L, Tim and Mike went together in a group of 4, approaching various shops and asking politely if they would be able to take a few festival daily magazines and hand them out with purchases - orin one case WH Smith even had an advertisement board in which we could stick the magazines up.

My third job was the most important, and in the same group of 4 we then volunteered to make a podcast, describing the first day of the festival and what films were showing that day, a brief description, with some films showing the further day also. Listen to that podcast here.

I think my favourite part of the day would have to be the podcast, but it was also fun just to be around the festival while everyone prepared for it. I think on the next day it would be nice to maybe do some editing or a different variety of jobs that I did today. Overall my first day of work experience was a good experience and it was nice to be involved in everything that was going on to promote the festival.