Work Experience – Day 4: Victory
Ever battle has a victor, and in most cases, the victorious party is congratulated and celebrated. So in turn, I would like to begin my recount of today by sharing and celebrating with you my glorious victory over the army of coloured C6 envelopes. Ever since I received the task of addressing the envelopes, I had made up my mind to try and get rid of it quickly as possible and get it over and done with. Personally, there was no other way to do this but to complete the task in its entirety at a reasonably fast pace, while maintaining quality, rather than find loop holes to shove it aside. Today was the day I conquered and reached my goal. Thank you for celebrating with me.
During the day, Michael gave me the task of creating a yearbook cover design for one of their current projects so I could possibly help out the designer assigned to it. When creating yearbook covers, the design has to fit the rest of the pages within the yearbook, so using the same theme, colour palette and style of elements used is appropriate.
Normally I would design covers or title pages in Photoshop; I’m more experienced here than in InDesign or Illustrator. However, destiny had something else in plan (actually it was more like ‘designers logic/common sense’). The only way I could get the proper dimensions and measurements for the cover spread was through InDesign, so I was stuck with using this software rather than Photoshop. (Insert unnecessary lines depicting my early frustration, silent complaints and occasional difficulties with InDesign here.) But as time passed, I started getting the hang of it. In fact, I’m not so against using InDesign now; I’m starting to see the many pros of using this software for such related purposes as yearbooks. Also, a designer came in and taught me a few basic things on how to use InDesign, and some fancy tips with text aligning. Thanks for that!
After some time on the cover, I teleported back to the other studio where I helped Michael by sharing some of my opinions on previous Rockstar Annuals for Universities and Colleges, and helping Amelia refold the lovely advertisements that were to be mailed to different companies. They’re pretty awesome! We were sitting on the couch folding and casually conversing with others around us, sharing a few laughs, re-telling some past experiences; it was a relaxed, laid-back moment.
As the afternoon flew by, It was soon time to head home. After denying Nathan’s offer of coke (lol) and showing Bryan, a designer, the yearbook cover I worked on throughout the day, I was ready to return to my humble household in the west.
Tomorrow will be my last day at Rockstar Memoirs…
I cut down from roughly 690 words to 450 >:]