week five

there weren't many diferent tasks for me this week. on monday i jumped in for frank by making a small adjustment in a webflyer he made for the NPOX festival. the layout is a lot about text-balloons, and the client wanted some additional, special balloons to be added to that weblyer, and because frank in the aki to teach people, i did that. it's one balloon with a crown and text about the NPOX-Price, and another triangular one with "work in progress in it", like a sign (UPDATE: they even made it on to the official website and some posters by now, a bit down the site on the left). i like the layout a lot, so it was fun.
i spent the rest of the week with preparations for the "drie dwaze dagen" (three crazy days). a big special offer campaign that finds place at the bijenkorf every year, from 2nd till 4th of oktober. this year is 25th anniversary of this event, so it's gonna be big. i worked on some standart "pages" for it, but also i made two of three "bumpers". bumpers are short films that illustrate the whole event, like trailers for it. i'm gonna present them with some additional stuff i made after next week, because there will be a lot more when those three days are over i presume.
work is getting pretty tough these days, because i have to spend all (AALLLL!) my free time working on my animation for the twentse welle, and helping with the illustrations whereever i can. i won't complain, i should have known.

week four

before starting with my internship, i arranged with my current boss that i would get one week "holidays" at the beginning of oktober. i did so because i thought that this was the time when the preparations for the exhibition in the twentse well would start seriously.
anyways, i went to enschede/gronau for one week therefore, trying to help with the preparations. i should better have picked one week later, because then icould have helped with the actual constucting, but it wasn't for nothing either. this way i helped a lot with modeling for my groups illustrations. that means i posed in a lot different poses, was phootographed and lateron outlined and painted over in illustrator. above some examples (farmer illustrated by anika, nazi by me, AND i have to say that it's a historical museum, and that is the only reason why i'm dressed like a nazi). brought my group a whole step further i think.
it also was nice seeing my flatmates and people.

week three

i started this week with a typical "let the work experiencer do that"-job. making a logo for the neighbour from the other side of the street. he runs some ink-crtridge shop and want's to expand to "recyle-point". for ink-cartridges i guess. so i did that. worldshaking.
the rest of the week i mostly made these "pages" for the Bijenkorf instore-tv. above you see a typical example for one those pages. for generating them you mostly use templates. sometimes you have to exempt photos. not so thrilling.
i also sorted out some of the last weeks photos, from that bijenkorf-presentation, because some people there wanted have them aswell.
i also helped a by adjusting a "promo", a short spot for some tv rogram where you can win something.
oh, and i started editing a short report about the opening of a new restaurant in the amsterdam department of the bijenkorf. it's supposed for the employees of that enterprise to be seen on the internal website. i like that, i am fond of film editing.

some good news about my lodging: i have advanced from caravan to a room in a shared house yesterday! if that goes on weekly as in did, i'll be living in a palace when i end my work experience. it's nice, i share this story of the house with students only. they study at the hku (hoogeschool voor de kunsten utrecht), and they are really friendly. everything shared is surprisingly clean, good flatmates therefore. only on the upper floor it's not that tidy, there live some polish workmen, like in most shared houses here, and they don't really seem to care. anyways, i'm happy. only missing some furniture.

week two

- Bijenkorf-selection of the photos

this was one busy week for having started only the week before. on monday i was at the beehive headquaters (beehive is what bijenkorf means) again to prepare the rest of the presentation for the big management meeting on tuesday. among other things i cut and assembled an interview for that. i like that.
because having worked prety muh for it, i was allowed to join the big meeting on tuesday, what i did with pleasure, even if that ment having to stand up early. the presentation itself wasn't that interesting, a lot numbers and schedules and stuff, but the place where it found place and the effort spend for it were definately worth looking at. a very stylish building (ok, only the interior) with a lot of nice rentable rooms. there also was free food ;)
the photos above were taken there.
the rest of the week i could help roy (ex aki student working there) with a musicvideo he was working on. it's for the dutch children's girl group "Lisa, Amy and Shelly". not exactly my favorite type of music but well nice having participated there. my tasks where mostly keying stuff, and i also filmed some background shots together with paul, my boss. the scene where the one girl pretends jogging in the woods, about half the clip's length, is done by me.
by th way, i changed my current lodging. i went from tent upwards to caravan! not that i dislike my tent, but it's slowly getting cold and a real bed is nice aswell. so i rented a stationary caravan at the same camping site. here i have everything i need, even internet. a large step forwrd on my way to a room.