Thursday 31st July: Mark out of a Hundred..?

On arrival Mark hoped I would go down to London to drop off some paper work that had to be there in hardcopy by 5pm that day, but unfortunately I couldn’t go as my tutor was visiting the office for a catch up with Helga and me…

First thing first, I asked Helga for the Fierce Earth blog details as last week she mentioned that she wanted me to look at that. I fixed something she wanted doing first on there and suggested we have a team page. I began to draft until Kate, my tutor arrived.

I gave her some documents and some press cuttings to look through before the meeting could get going. I spoke with Kate about my plans for the next module of production.

We got started with the meeting and it was nice to discuss openly how my placement was going, was it as I expected, anything that had surprised me etc etc…I found it really useful to reflect in the form of a discussion the last month as so far I have completed around 160 hours out of 400, which will take me to around October time.

At the end Kate asked Helga to rate me out of 100…that was a little weird! I think both Helga and I were as shocked as one another, but Helga awarded me 87 and she said the gap was in knowledge and not ability at the moment! Which I was quite pleased with, and gave another step to build on and improve.

Today was Andrew’s last day as a full-time worker and he is taking annual leave now until September, so we went out for lunch at the Lord Cliffden, which has recently been refurbished as an Urban Art Bar. It was really nicely done, combining traditional pub style with a contemporary twist – thumbs up from us!

We got back to the office and I continued with the Fierce Earth blog, posting two items as requested by Helga one about Tindal Street Press and another was an opportunity for a producer with The Other Way Works. It will act as a sort of notice board for those who have an interest in the work Fierce do…