Week 2

During my 2nd week of work, the workload I was given had slowed down considerably. I’m now regularly relied upon to use my relative experience with websites and social media to innovate upon our current systems, which are relatively outdated. Among my improvements will be a new tagging system to organize photos and videos, new ways to take photos for our clients, the list will keep growing as long as I can keep finding improvements to make. I’ve again been called to fill some social media requirements, as my boss has asked me to create short 30-second videos to intersperse and fill our social media distribution for a few months. As i’m proficient with Premier Pro, that shouldn’t be hard at all. Simple fades from picture to picture with a backing track will be more than sufficient. I’m somewhat frequently asked to use the company’s money to buy things they deem necessary, like new cameras or printing services. Much of the time, they come to me not to actually buy anything, but to help them decipher and decide the best option for their purposes and needs. Not everyone knows what picture resolution is, apparently. We have a ”picture day” scheduled on next week’s Friday. It will apparently not be a short ordeal, and should take no less than 4 hours. As a photographer, I understand that the photographic process takes time, but it will still be 4 hours that I won’t be able to use for work. I might be able to sneak my IPad on site and get some work done on the side while they’re busy filming.

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  1. Glad you continue to learn about the processes behind a social media feed. If you are organizing photos, have you talked about ALT text and other accessibility needs? If not, it’s something you should bring to their attention. Here’s a source to get started:

    https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images

    Good idea to plan for downtime, but you should also plan to be ready to help during the photo shoot. It might help the project be more efficient!

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