interview for creative practice

- BA (Hons) Creative Practice

had my interview for creative practice on thursday,
they had one to one with me and i talked through my portfolio and then they definately put me on the spot as they asked 6-10 questions which they would want immediate answers from.

questions about supporting yourself, the economy,working as team,problem solving,technology and discipline, such as:-

• who inspires you?-my mam, never gives up and reliable.
• why should we take you on this course?-hardworking, willing to listen, good attendance and punctuality,have the drive to wan to succeed.
• what economical factor has contributed to your area of discipline?-tution fees going up, meaning less students and more jobs available in time.
• how do you work as a team? i give my ideas and the other members give their ideas and talk about them and disscuss where to take ideas from there.
• how do solve problems? i showed her in my skecth book how a logo design wasnt working so changed the alter positon to make it work and looking at other ideas that may also make it work.

i was able to answer the question straight away with no hesitation and was quite proud how i handled it as soemtimes for me it can feel abit awkward when put on the spot and would usually hesitate, so again it has shown how i have grown and become more knowledgeable and know what to expect and to sell my self as designer rather than to ssay i did this, this and this, i say how and why i did this to aswell the brief now.

sunderland university-graphic communication interview

I had my sunderland uni intreview this morning at 9.30am at the design center with roger thomas
for graphic communication year 3.

a few other people turned up for the interview of which we had a tour around the design center then he took all of our portfolios away to look at on his own  for 40 mins and then he came back and let us  i have a chance for one on one with my portfolio, from which he picked out pieces he wanted to asked questions about and mainly i think the ones he liked best as he showed interest in these than compared to a few of the others.

• he asked where did i see myself working with graphics, like which part exactly i'd like work in-which i said is promo design as this is always in demand.
• he picked pieces for me to talk about, taking from this i think these must of been the pieces that he liked the most.
• for my packaging design he asked is if i made mock ups- i told him i hadnt but for the book i brung in to show my research and development which had a mock up.
• he asked am i enjoying my course-which i said yeah its good.

during my interview i was slightly nervous but i did notice that my confidence from interviews in the past 2 years has grown significantly, i am able to keep my speak flowing of which i tend to get to stuck to talk and my memory goes blank, this did not happen and so my skills of being on the spot and under pressure to do well has shown.